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About Oliver A.Masciarotte
Oliver A. Masciarotte has spent more than 40 years immersed in the tech space, working on manufacturing, marketing, and product development for many pro and CE audio manufacturers including dbx, a/d/s, Lexicon, Sonic Solutions, and Minnetonka Audio. His client roster is as diverse as Apple, Harper Collins, NASA Johnson, NPR, and Universal. His writings include a book covering file-based music for the home and more than 100 articles for sundry trade publications. A member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Project Management Institute (PMI), and Digital Cinema Society (DCS), he is currently co-founder and CMO of MAAT Inc., a digital audio software manufacturer.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Pono…
May 28, 2015 by Oliver A.Masciarotte

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Pono…

Working in conjunction with the cross–platform PonoMusic World application, PonoRevealer enables real–time playback comparison of lossy and lossless versions transcoded from the same HRA parent. As I’ve said before; if you can’t hear a difference, it only means you are not able to hear a difference, your ancillary playback gear is subpar, or you’re refusing to admit that which you cannot explain.
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Perceived Meaningful Resolution
March 28, 2015 by Oliver A.Masciarotte

Perceived Meaningful Resolution

As you may have noticed, the ephemeral and ill-defined concept of "resolution" has been on my mind of late. Many consumers and yes, even some audio professionals, conflate bit depth with resolution. In a broad sense, this is understandable but it's sample rate that overshadows word length.
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Show Report: Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014
March 27, 2015 by Oliver A.Masciarotte

Show Report: Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014

It being my seventh trip to Denver’s mile-high Tech Center district, I thought I knew what to expect. An audio engineer friend and I decided to drive to Colorado from Minneapolis. The weather was unseasonably warm and the traffic sparse, enabling us to ignore the piloting and discuss the technology that would be unveiled during the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest’s 11th iteration.
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The High Resolution Audibility Test
February 11, 2015 by Oliver A.Masciarotte

The High Resolution Audibility Test

As the owner of a standard yellow PonoPlayer, I was catching up on comments over at PonoMusic, and one in particular caught my attention, a note from Allen Farmelo at Farmelo Recording linking to a Tape Op blog entry. Farmelo’s dispatch, The Problem With A-B'ing And Why Neil Young Is Right About Sound Quality, makes several valid points, one of which is that A–B tests are not necessarily that meaningful…
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Universal Audio Apollo Twin: Small Things Make a Big Difference
February 3, 2015 by Oliver A.Masciarotte

Universal Audio Apollo Twin: Small Things Make a Big Difference

The December 2014 edition of audioXpress featured a review of the Universal Audio Apollo Twin Thunderbolt-based audio interface. Oliver Masciarotte details how Universal Audio approached this design, leveraging the benefits of Thunderbolt technology and its own hardware-accelerated UAD Powered Plug-In architecture to implement a complete recording solution. Read the Complete Review.
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