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An update for the .NET Framework 4.5 is available. This update fixes some reliability, compatibility, stability, and performance issues. For more information about the issues that this update resolves, see the "Issues that this update resolves" section.
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Issues that this update resolves
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)Issue 1
Assume that you implement the ICommand interface, and then you perform one of the following operations:
- You delegate the CanExecuteChanged event to a different object.
- You raise the CanExecuteChanged event together with the sender parameter, and the parameter is set to a different object or to null.
- Buttons, MenuItems, or Hyperlinks do not change their IsEnabled state.
- Buttons, MenuItems, or Hyperlinks do not respond to mouse-clicks or to keyboard input.
Consider the following scenario:
- You set the focus on a cell at the edge of a DataGrid (for example, on a cell in the top or bottom row, or on a cell in the leftmost or rightmost column).
- You press the arrow key that corresponds to the edge column (for example, you press Up from a cell in the top row).
- The cell contains a focusable element (for example, a TextBox, Hyperlink, Button, or CheckBox element).
Issue 3
Consider the following scenario:
- You create a custom panel that implements the IScrollInfo interface.
- The VerticalOffset property returns a value that exceeds the value of the ExtentHeight property.
- The AutoScroll property is set to true.
- You try to "auto-scroll" the panel. For example, you click the mouse button inside the panel, and then you drag the mouse to a location that is underneath the panel by performing one of the following actions:
- You scroll the panel until it reaches the end of its content.
- You scroll the panel until you release the mouse button.
- You move the mouse elsewhere.
Issue 4
Consider the following scenario:
- You call the ScrollIntoView method on a ListBox or a DataGrid.
Note This call can occur in many ways. For example, you call the ScrollIntoView method from a handler for the SelectionChanged event.
- There are layout tasks pending on the ListBox or on the DataGrid.
Issue 5
Consider the following scenario:
- You implement the INotifyDataErrorInfo interface on an object.
- You data-bind some properties of a UI element to the object instead of to a property of the object.
- You deactivate the binding by performing one of the following actions:
- You replace the binding with a different binding.
- You overwrite the property of the UI element with a different value (if it is a one-way binding).
- You remove the UI element from the visual tree and release all references to it.
- Your object raises the ErrorsChanged event.
Common language runtime (CLR)Issue 1
Operations that involve the Array.Sort method experience slow performance. For example, when a program tries to sort a drop-down list.
Issue 2
After you upgrade from the .NET Framework 4 to the .NET Framework 4.5, previously installed .NET Framework 4-based applications may crash. Additionally, you receive an error message that resembles the following:
"Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program"
Issue 3
Assume that you upgrade a computer from an earlier version of the .NET Framework to the .NET Framework 4.5. Before the upgrade, there is an application that can read performance counters from ASP.NET. However, after you upgrade the .NET Framework, this feature can no longer read the performance counters from ASP.NET.
Issue 4
Assume that you upgrade a computer from the .NET Framework 4 to the .NET Framework 4.5. Before the upgrade, the Type.IsAssignableFrom method returns a value of true. However, after the upgrade, the method incorrectly returns a value of false.
To reproduce this issue, use the following code:
public class TestConstraint where T: U
public T t;
Class Program
static void Main( string[] args )
Type t = typeof( TestConstraint ).GetGenericArguments()[ 0 ];
Type u = typeof( TestConstraint ).GetGenericArguments()[ 1 ];
Console.WriteLine( u.IsAssignableFrom(t) );// The .NET Framework 4.0 displays "true." However, the .NET Framework 4.5 displays "false."
Issue 5
The CryptoStream class throws an ArgumentNullException exception in the .NET Framework 4.5 instead of throwing a CryptopgraphicException exception as it did in the .NET Framework 4. If a CryptoStream class tries to decrypt invalid data and is disposed of two times by using a pattern that resembles the following, the second call to the Dispose method throws an ArgumentNullException exception:
Issue 6
using (CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(cs))
Assume that you upgrade an earlier version of the .NET Framework to the .NET Framework 4.5 on a computer. When you use some third-party controls on an application, you may receive a System.Security.SecurityException exception, and the application crashes.
Windows FormsIssue 1
Assume that you have a .NET Framework 4.5-based Windows Form application. When you click a menu item to open a child window in the application, interactions with the menu and child windows behave incorrectly.
For example, you may experience the following:
- When you open a shortcut menu in the child window, the main window form takes the focus.
- You cannot use mnemonics to access a menu item.
When you set two controls to appear in the same cell as a TableLayoutPanel Windows Forms control, the two controls may be positioned in a different cell.
This issue occurs because the actual positions of the controls are resolved differently in the .NET Framework 4 and the .NET Framework 4.5.
Issue 3
The System.Windows.Forms.FontDialog.Color property returns a Color value as the System.Drawing.SystemColors class. These color objects have names that differ from the standard color names, for example "SystemText."
Standard color names are defined on the static members of the Color structure and can be recognizable not only by the .NET Framework, but also by Windows Forms.
For more information about the Color structure, go to the following MSDN website:
XMLIssue 1
When you try to redefine the default XML namespace during XSL transformation, an exception is thrown. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
Cannot construct namespace declaration xmlns='uri:schema1'.Issue 2
Prefix '' is already mapped to namespace 'uri:schema2'.
Prefix '' is already mapped to namespace 'uri:schema2'.
Assume that you use the XmlSerializer class to serialize an array of structs that implements IEnumerable interfaceexplicitly. In this situation, a System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException exception is thrown in the .NET Framework 4.5.
Network Class LibraryIssue 1
Assume that you run a .NET Framework 4.5-based application that uses asynchronous APIs to read chunked responses. In this situation, the chunked responses may be read synchronously.
The HttpWebRequest class lets callers read an HTTP response either synchronously or asynchronously. However, if the response is a chunked HTTP response, then parts of the response are read by using synchronous I/O (Winsock calls) even when the caller uses the asynchronous code path. In this situation, the calling thread is blocked until data is received on the network.
Issue 2
Assume that you have a .NET Framework 4.5-based application that communicates with a server over the Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) protocol by using the HttpWebRequest or SslStream class. If the server requests an SSL renegotiation while the application is sending data, the application may encounter an unhandled exception and then crash.
Issue 3
A thread pool freezes in the HttpWebRequest class if an HTTPS request is aborted during an SSL renegotiation while a write operation is pending.
This issue occurs because of a race condition that may occur when the HttpWebRequest class or the SslStream class handles SSL renegotiation. In this situation, the thread pool may create more and more threads. Additionally, the resources that are held in memory are not cleared.
Issue 4
Assume that you have a .NET Framework 4.5-based application that communicates with a server through a proxy. If a request is aborted and proxy authentication is being negotiated at the same time, the application may encounter an unhandled exception and then crash.
This issue occurs because of an earlier fix to Thread.Abort() method processing. This fix added a function that could throw a new exception. Therefore, the Thread.Abort() method no longer throws this exception.
ASP.NETIssue 1
Consider the following scenario:
- You have an ASP.NET web application that displays different content based on the language setting of the browser.
- A user uses Internet Explorer 10 on a Traditional Chinese version of Windows 8 to browse to that web application.
Issue 2
When you run the Perfmon.exe program on your local computer to monitor certain ASP.NET performance counters on a remote computer (for example, the Application Running performance counters), you always receive a value of 0. You receive this value even if there are several ASP.NET applications running on the remote computer.
Issue 3
Consider the following scenario:
- In a Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 web site project, you add the
 tag into an HTML table control on an .aspx page. For example, you do the following:

- You try to build the whole web site.
"The best overloaded method match for 'System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlTableRowCollection.Add(System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlTableRow)' has some invalid arguments"
Issue 4
Assume that you set the value of the cachedRolesInCookie property to true in your web application. Your application serializes the RolePrincipal object into the cookie, and then sends it in response. In this situation, the role cookie value is empty in the application's following request.
Issue 5
Consider the following scenario:
- You have an ASP.NET web application, and the AntiXssEncoder typeis turned on in the application.
- One of the web pages in the application has a HyperLink Web server control that uses the NavigateUrl property topoint to "mailto:email@example.com".
- A user accesses the webpage by using his browser, and then clicks the hyperlink.
Entity FrameworkIssue 1
Consider the following scenario:
- You develop an application that uses Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 or SQL Server Compact 4.0 and Entity Framework in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
- The application uses a "LINQ to Entities" query to perform multiple JOINstatements on the entity sets to obtain data.
- You move the application to a computer that has the .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
- You try to run the application.
Issue 2
Consider the following scenario:
- You run an application that queries for data by using Entity Framework on a computer that has the .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
- The query uses "group by view" constructs.
Note This issue does not occur when the application is running in the .NET Framework 4.
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)Issue 1
Consider the following scenario:
- You have an existing Visual Studio 2010 Activity Library project, or you create a new Activity Library project.
- You have some resource files in the project which will be embedded into the assembly.
- You build the project in Visual Studio 2012.
Issue 2
Consider the following scenario:
- You create a Workflow Console Application project that is named "WorkflowConsoleApplication1."
- You open the default workflow, and you add an argument of type string.
- You set the default value of the new argument to a certain value, such as "example."
- You add the following line to the code:
[assembly:System.Windows.Markup.XmlnsDefinition("foobar", "WorkflowConsoleApplication1")]
- You build the solution and then you try to open the default workflow again.
"Workflow Designer encountered problems with your document"
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)Issue 1
Consider the following scenario:
- You develop a WCF service project that targets the .NET Framework 4.0 on a computer that has the .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
- You set the value of the aspNetCompatibilityEnabled property to true in the web.config file.
- You deploy the WCF service project on another computer that has the .NET Framework 4.0 installed.
Note This issue does not occur when you deploy the WCF service project on a computer that has the .NET Framework 4.5 installed.
This issue occurs because the default value of the AspNetCompatibilityRequirements attribute is NotAllowed in the .NET Framework 4.0. However, this default value is changed to Allowed in the .NET Framework 4.5.
To work around this issue, explicitly set the ASP.NET compatibility mode for the service on the service contract by adding the following code:
Issue 2
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Required)]
The public API ByteStreamMessageEncoder.CreateMessage creates an XmlDictionaryReader class that uses the default XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas instead of the maximum quotas defined in XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max. This may cause a System.Xml.XmlException (maximum quota exceeded) exception to occur.
Issue 3
When you try to access an upload stream property (for example, the HttpRequest.InputStream property)instead of a service operation, you receive the following error message:
This method or property is not supported after HttpRequest.GetBefferlessInputStream has been invoked"
Issue 4
When you try to generate WCF proxiesfor ASMX services by using either the Add Service Reference dialogor the .NET Framework 4.5 Svcutil.exe utility, the generated service reference is invalid with missing types.
Issue 5
Consider the following scenario:
- You create an ASP.NET MVC4 Web API project in Visual Studio 2012.
- You add a WCF service reference in the project.
This issue occurs because the DataContractSerializer class has encountered a type (Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken) that it does not support. In this case, it throws an exception, and then stops generating the service reference.


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Lions teammate: Jahvid Best should 'shut it down'
Detroit Lions wide receiver Nate Burleson had a message for teammate Jahvid Best, who hasn't played a down since October 2011 due to multiple concussions, on Monday's "NFL Total Access."
Via NFL Evolution:
"I just told him that if it was me I would shut it down," Burleson said. "You've got so much more life to live, and even though I would love to have you on the field, I don't want it to risk anything that has to do with your brain or possibly your post career."
It was a refreshingly candid statement from the ten-year pro, who said that concerns over the Best's health should be more important than trying to resurrect the 2010 first round pick's career, which has only lasted a brief 22 games.
"I spoke to him last season. Jahvid could have easily been one of the best running backs to put on a Lions jersey … He's that type of player. The reason I'm talking in past tense is because he's going through a different type of concussion. He didn't have a ton of them, but the ones that he did have they were really powerful."
"In conversing with him, he was able to tell me if he wasn't sure he was going to decide to come back and play the game he loves so much — he's so young — or if he's going to decide to chalk it up."
"And just being a guy that loves him as an individual vs. him, as a player, I just told him, 'Honestly I'd rather see you healthy at 65 than healthy at 25,' "
As unfortunate as the 24-year-old Best's injuries are, Burleson's advice does prove that some current players are paying close attention to the effects of head injuries in the NFL and the consequences that multiple concussions have had on former players.
While the peer pressure from teammates to return from head trauma may be lessening, the league is also making it harder for players with severe concussions to return to the field. Best refused to discuss retirement halfway through the 2012 season, telling the Detroit Free-Press he'd been "working out like an animal." Yet as the year went on, no doctor would clear him to return to the NFL.
Despite having two years left on Best's contract, Lions general manager Martin Mayhew said last month that he wasn't counting on the running back to ever return to the team. Ultimately it will be Best's decision whether he wants to keep working to return to the league. But unlike decades ago, when teammates, execs and the medical staff would likely have been pushing a former first-round pick to get back on the field by any means necessary, this time the external pressure on the player seems to be telling him to go the opposite direction.

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Israelis in non-Israeli Universities
David Pryce-Jones
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By Ilan Pappe (Oneworld Publications 313pp £16.99)
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli academic who has made his name by hating Israel and everything it stands for. In his view, expressed with obsession and a degree of paranoia, Jewish nationalism, that is to say Zionism, has been from its outset a deliberate tool for dispossessing the Palestinians; and therefore it is to be condemned root and branch. He reserves the Palestinian term of Nakba, meaning catastrophe, for describing what to Israelis is their war of independence of 1948. To him, Israeli politicians and soldiers, one and all, are so many murderers. Forests have been planted only to cover up the past. Houses are 'monstrous villas and palaces for rich American Jews'. Everything Israeli is ugly, everything Palestinian is beautiful. One day, he supposes, the Israelis may well consummate their original crime with something even worse. The only possible alternative lies in the immediate return of every Palestinian to his original home, and that will mean the end of the state whose existence so offends Pappe. This, of course, is exactly the inflexible position taken by Hamas and the PLO.
The reader's initial reaction must be one of pity. Poor man! What a strain it must be to belong to a nation whose members are so overwhelmingly unbearable that he longs for them to be overpowered by others. Yet there is more to it than that. Sad and creepy though it is, Pappe's anger is open to rational analysis.
The doctrinal element pushing Pappe into anti-Zionism is his prominent involvement in the Israeli Communist Party, known as Hadash. An outcrop of pure Stalinism and always a marginal movement, Communism in Israel rejected Zionism in favour of internationalism, according to which Jews and Arabs were to form a state together. Events, indeed the whole thrust of history, have proven this to be a complete illusion, but Pappe remains one of a minute handful still in its grip.
The further emotional element pushing Pappe towards his hatred of Zionism is best elucidated by J L Talmon in his profound book, The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution. Among the 'horribly charged and tormenting questions' Talmon asks is why so many Jews have adopted identities that seemingly allow them to deny their Jewishness. Uncountable numbers of Jews have followed the example of the Karl Marxes, Trotskys and Rosa Luxemburgs who sought identities as Communists and revolutionaries in the hope that this would allow them to merge with those who otherwise would be their persecutors. Some Communists – like Lazar Kaganovich, and many in the KGB as well as leaders in the Soviet satellites – set about the deliberate destruction of the Jewish religion and culture. Talmon speaks openly of the neurosis and 'morbid masochism' motivating such unhappy people.
In Nazi Germany a few Jews tried to camouflage themselves in a similar manner. Felix Jacoby opened his Kiel University lectures in 1933 by comparing Hitler to the Emperor Augustus. Dr Hans-Joachim Schoeps and Max Naumann even formed a movement of Jews for Hitler. With gallows humour, other Jews replied that this movement's slogan was Raus mit Uns, or Out with Us. In Israel today, Neturei Karta, a sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews, believes that the Messiah alone should bring about a Jewish state, and that Israel is therefore an impiety fit for destruction. In New York they have a branch called Jews Against Zionism, and recently they welcomed President Ahmedinejad in person there, supporting his call for genocide in Israel. Pappe is the secular and political version of these sectarians. As often happens, extremists have come from opposing poles only to reach the same conclusion.
Zionism, in Pappe's conventional Marxist view, had nothing to do with the need for Jews to survive persecution by Europeans or Arabs, but was only a settler and colonialist movement cynically directed by British imperialists and their greedy Jewish collaborators. He characterises David Ben-Gurion, the driving personality in the latter stages of the foundation of the state of Israel, as someone who always intended to expel Palestinians from the land. To bring this about, he assembled a body which Pappe refers to as the Consultancy, but the details of who these people were, and what they really did, he fails to give us, instead preferring to conjure an aura of sinister conspiracy. The Israelis were always the stronger party and knew that they would win out at the end of the British Mandate in 1948, Pappe says. In contrast, the Palestinians were defenceless and hardly violent at all, designated victims whose villages were mercilessly overrun and many of the inhabitants butchered.
A huge literature exists in British, Arab and Israeli archives to reveal the multiple reasons for the flight of the Palestinians at the time, ranging from a belief that invading Arab armies were about to rescue them, and they should move out of harm's way, to a cultural reflex that they could not accept Jews in positions of authority, an escapism on the part of some leaders and delusions of power on the part of others, and of course fear. Savage things were certainly perpetrated by both sides – à la guerre comme à la guerre – but Pappe will have none of that, completely ignoring the context in all its complexity and local variation. His technique is to list towns and villages as though their capture involved always and only simple brutality and expulsion. No mention of the Jewish need to survive in an existential struggle in the aftermath of the Holocaust; no mention of the 6,000 Jews killed, which was 1 per cent of the population; no mention of Azzam Pasha of the Arab League promising a massacre of Jews on the scale of the Mongols; no mention of Arab radio propaganda and disinformation; no proper account of Arab military successes, brushing over Arab atrocities and the destruction of Jewish settlements; no mention of the countervailing expulsion and expropriation of a million Jews in Arab countries.
As history, the book is worthless. In interviews Pappe regularly explains: 'We do [historiography] because of ideological reasons, not because we are truth seekers.' For him, as a Marxist and anti-nationalist, 'there is no such thing as truth, only a collection of narratives'. To substantiate his particular ideological narrative, Pappe puts the worst possible interpretation on any Jewish deed or word, while validating anything said or done by Palestinians. For evidence of Israeli monstrosity, he relies on quotations from his own previous works or from Palestinian polemicists, and above all on the oral testimonies of Palestinian refugees. Over half a century of military and ideological conflict has passed since their exodus, but Pappe declares his faith that whatever they now say is true. This might all seem too pathological to matter much, but Arab and Muslim extremists are making huge efforts to contest the legitimacy of Israel, and many of their allies on the international Left will lean on Pappe for purposes of 'pilgering' and 'fisking'.
The final element contributing to Pappe's mindset lies in the sphere of psychology and fashion. Contemporary intellectuals have long been accustomed to glorying in an adversarial stance towards their own society, preening themselves as men of nobler spirits than the dull indifferent masses around them, and isolated not because they are foolish but because they are brave. It is a form of snobbery – moral snobbery – which is why intellectuals of this kind are so widely resented.
There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Pappe's advocacy of the immediate return of all Palestinian refugees as the necessary condition of peace. If Israelis are really as vicious as Pappe presents them, then Palestinians could not possibly want to live among them. Are Palestinians to return only to wipe out Israelis or to be wiped out themselves? Poor Palestinians, poor Israelis, to be mobilised for such fates. And should Hamas, the PLO or President Ahmadinejad make good on threats to eliminate Israel, there will not be time to rescue Pappe from the consequences of his moral snobbery and his Marxism, or to discover whether he really applauds his own Raus mit Uns demise.


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MEDINA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 25, 2018--
International Inc. (NYSE: RPM) announced today that it has issued a
notice of redemption for all $205,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
its outstanding 2.25% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2020 (CUSIP No.
749685 AT0) (the "Notes") on November 27, 2018 (the "Redemption Date").
The redemption price for the Notes is equal to 100% of the principal
amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest
until, but excluding, the Redemption Date.
RPM has instructed The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as
the trustee for the Notes, to distribute the notice of redemption to all
registered holders of the Notes. Copies of the notice and additional
information relating to the procedure for redemption may be obtained
from The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., by calling 1 (800)
As a result of the issuance of the notice of redemption, the Notes are
convertible at any time prior to the close of business on November 26,
2018. The current conversion rate is 19.185116 shares of RPM common
stock per $1,000 original principal amount of the Notes, which is
equivalent to a conversion price of approximately $52.12 per share
(subject to adjustment in accordance with the terms of the Indenture).
In accordance with the provisions of the indenture for the Notes, RPM
has elected to settle any Notes surrendered for conversion through a
combination settlement of cash and shares of RPM common stock (and cash
in lieu of any fractional shares).
About RPM
RPM International Inc. owns subsidiaries that are world leaders in
specialty coatings, sealants, building materials and related services
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and TCI.
Additional details can be found at www.rpminc.com
and by following RPM on Twitter at www.twitter.com/RPMintl.
For more information, contact Russell L. Gordon, vice president and
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" relating to our
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us, are made based on our expectations and beliefs concerning future
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(including those specified below) which are difficult to predict and, in
many instances, are beyond our control. As a result, our actual results
could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by any such
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surrounding the volatility in financial markets, the availability of
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of banks and other financial institutions; (b) the prices, supply and
capacity of raw materials, including assorted pigments, resins, solvents
and other natural gas- and oil-based materials; packaging, including
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surcharges; (c) continued growth in demand for our products; (d) legal,
environmental and litigation risks inherent in our construction and
chemicals businesses and risks related to the adequacy of our insurance
coverage for such matters; (e) the effect of changes in interest rates;
(f) the effect of fluctuations in currency exchange rates upon our
foreign operations; (g) the effect of non-currency risks of investing in
and conducting operations in foreign countries, including those relating
to domestic and international political, social, economic and regulatory
factors; (h) risks and uncertainties associated with our ongoing
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for the year ended May 31, 2018, as the same may be updated from time to
time. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise
any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or
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I was channel surfing in commercial breaks from an NFL playoff game last Sunday when a figure skating show, Improv-Ice, arrested my attention.
There was Nicole Bobek, back on national television as a performer (for the second time in 15 days), looking extraordinarily fit, supremely confident and so overwhelmingly happy she couldn't stop smiling.
"It's almost ridiculous," Bobek said of her expression when we spoke by telephone. "Sometimes I want to slap the smile off my face, but I can't. It's how I feel out there."
And why not? A little more than two years ago Bobek was a dropout from the skating world in which she once was a star, battling a crystal meth addiction and hoping to stay out of jail on a drug distribution charge.
When a judge gave her five years probation instead of prison, Bobek immediately grasped her good fortune. During a visit with her in Florida 16 months ago that led to a lengthy story in the Tribune, she said, "I couldn't have been given a bigger chance in my life to do something right."
From the way she is performing to the testimony of those who have employed her, skated with her, coached her and gone to bat for her, all evidence is that at 34, Bobek finally can be taken at her word.
"She definitely has won back my confidence," said Steve Disson, the skating impresario in whose Pandora NBC Skating Series shows Bobek made her recent TV appearances. "Her attitude and cooperation were terrific, and it's nice to see her skating well."
That skating once again defines her is what Bobek wants.
"I can say whatever, I can act however, but the skating speaks for itself, and I have put a lot of work into it," Bobek said.
Disson gave her a contract at the urging of Lynn Plage, a skating consultant, and JoJo Starbuck, the Hall of Fame pairs skater who has become mentor, choreographer and guardian angel to Bobek.
"She was always the girl who could get away with anything, but now she has fortitude, dedication and discipline," Starbuck said. "Physically, it has been a huge battle for her, but she never has complained."
There also have been financial issues. Bobek, a 1998 U.S. Olympian, has been able to afford just one new costume; the rest are 10 years old. She continues to work 25 hours a week running the Zamboni and teaching power skating to hockey players in Lake Worth, Fla., at the Palm Beach Skate Zone, whose manager, Mike Bunting, threw an employment lifeline to her while she awaited her legal fate.
"She was at the depths, and it looks like she is going right back to the top, but this time she is better prepared to be there," Bunting said. "I am so proud of what she has done with her life, and she deserves all the credit for it."
Richard Callaghan, who coached Bobek to the 1995 U.S. title, is giving her free lessons. When Callaghan saw the once undisciplined Bobek consistently arrive on time, he knew this was a different person.
"She is more mature, more responsible, more in control," Callaghan said.
And she has retained the charisma that made audiences love her since she was a 5-year-old strawberry shortcake in the Evanston ice show.
"She can put on a piece of music and be a star in 30 seconds," Callaghan said.
Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen recently did two shows with Bobek.
"She looks great and has a great energy about her," Cohen said. "It's wonderful to see her back. She belongs on the ice."
Bobek looks better than ever. In the past year, she lost 10 pounds almost incidentally from training on trapeze and aerial hoops at the South Florida Circus Arts School. She hopes to incorporate circus routines on the ice. For now, the improved physical condition has helped her recapture all her old double jumps except the axel.
"When she first came to me, it was amazing how much she had to relearn," Callaghan said. "I could see her frustration, but she plugged through it."
Bobek spends about a week each month living with Starbuck and her family in Madison, N.J. She has moved from her mother's house to an apartment near the Skate Zone. She needs to retake — and pass — the math test to earn her high school equivalency diploma.
Her lawyer has been gathering testimonials to ask for a reduction of the probation. Starbuck is among those writing on her behalf.
"The drastic transformation I see in her is like Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol,''' Starbuck said. "She woke up one morning ready to be grateful and generous."
Bobek has skated free in several charity shows, including a breast cancer benefit three weeks ago in New York. She has been invited to Figure Skating in Harlem's April "Skating With the Stars" gala. As a star.
"I knew what I needed to do more than anything was get in shape and prove to myself I still had this in me," Bobek said. "I had to accept the gifts God has given me and use them to my fullest instead of pushing them away. I'm married to my sport more than anything now."
She understands that self-realization may not have been possible without having lost her way so badly after abandoning skating for the literal high life several years ago.
"What I went through was a blessing in disguise," she said. "As painful as it was, all that stuff really bloomed me into the person I need to be and want to be."
The Improv show, where the skaters have to invent a program only hours after learning what their music is, was the perfect vehicle for Bobek. It also was another way to prove she is able to handle a mother of a job: Reinventing herself.
(Improv Ice will air again on the Ovation Network Thursday at 7 and 9 p.m.)
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I was channel surfing in commercial breaks from an NFL playoff game last Sunday when a figure skating show, Improv-Ice, arrested my attention.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Former Maryland standout quarterback Boomer Esiason was honored by the Atlantic Coast Conference on Saturday as a member of its Football Legends Class of 2013 in a ceremony at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte for the ninth annual Dr. Pepper ACC Football Championship.
Esiason also received recognition during the ACC Night of Legends event held Friday evening.
A two-time honorable mention All-American (1982, 1983) and three-year starter from 1981-83, Esiason led the Terps to a perfect 6-0 record in the ACC in 1983 to claim the school's first conference title since 1976 and a spot in the Florida Citrus Bowl. That season, Esiason and the Terps won seven of their first eight games to climb to seventh in the nation, while Esiason threw for a school-record 2,322 yards.
A member of the ACC's 50th Anniversary Team, Esiason broke several offensive records during his time in College Park including completions, touchdowns and yards. Over three seasons, Esiason completed 461 of his 850 passes for 6,259 yards and 42 touchdowns, and still ranks second all-time in touchdowns, and third in attempts, completions and yards.
During his junior season in 1982, Esiason threw for 2,302 yards and a school-record 18 touchdowns to lead the Terps to an 8-4 mark and a 5-1 record in the ACC, one win shy of the conference crown, to finish the season ranked 20th nationally earning an invitation to the Aloha Bowl. Esiason led an offense that averaged 31 points a game, the highest average for a Maryland team since 1951.
Esiason played 14 seasons in the National Football League spending 10 seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals in two stints. In 1988, Esiason earned league MVP honors and was named an All-Pro. He was also named to the Pro Bowl four times.
In 14 seasons in the NFL, Esiason completed 57 percent of his passes for 37,920 yards with 247 touchdowns.
The native of East Islip, N.Y., is currently a studio analyst for The NFL Today on CBS, is a color analyst for WestwoodOne's radio broadcast of Monday Night Football and co-hosts a long-running and top-rated morning radio show, "Boomer and Carton," on WFAN the Fan in New York City.
In 1993, after his son Gunnar was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, Esiason created the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which has raised in excess of $100 million to fund research to find a cure for the disease of the respiratory and digestive systems. In 1995, he was honored with the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year Award for his community service.
Esiason is Maryland's final member of the ACC Football Legends. The Terps transition to the Big Ten in the 2014 season.


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Mark Waldrep
If you pay attention to any of the usual audiophile sites or FB pages, you've probably seen the Youtube video by Home Entertainment by D-Tronics [Editor's NOTE: This is not Home Entertainment, which is a different retailer in Texas] that promotes several different AudioQuest HDMI cables. It purports to demonstrate that different qualities of their cables can improve…even dramatically improve…the fidelity of your music. The 6 minute video is presented by David Ellington, who is apparently a member of the AudioQuest marketing team.
He tries to make the case for three different models of AudioQuest HDMA cables ranging in price from $25 to $200 (for one meter). According to the AQ website they make lots of different HDMI models, including the "Diamond" that will set you back $1000. He talks about long-grain wire vs. wires with lots of strands, about the directionality of cables (apparently they listen to them in both directions and pick the one that "sounds" the best), and the different materials that they use to make the cables (copper or silver).
This marketing video would probably not have caught my eye or made it to several audiophile groups that I belong to except that it includes short excerpts from a song following the discussion of each cable. He starts by describing a "generic" HDMI cable…the baseline…and then plays the tune as it sounds through that cable. Each successive cable type…Pearl, Forest, and Chocolate…is described in glowing terms and then the tune is played.
And I can attest to the fact that each cable sounded better than the last one…even through my desktop computer audio system! The generic cable was dull, lifeless, lacked high-frequencies, and was much quieter than the others. The AudioQuest HDMI cables were much clearer, detailed, full fidelity, and louder. As the the price of the cables increased, so did the fidelity of the playback. Pretty convincing stuff, right?
He was talking up the "fidelity" produced by a short HDMI cable. These are digital cables designed and manufactured to meet a rigid set of standards set out by the people behind the HDMI specification. If the cable meets their specs, then it's capable of accurately passing the digital ones and zeros from the source to the destination. But in this remarkable video, the fidelity of the sound was improved with each new cable. Somehow the digital information was changed to include higher frequencies, louder amplitudes, and smoother equalization. How is that possible. This goes against everything I know as an engineer.
Well, it turns out it's not possible…no real surprise. I downloaded the video and extracted the soundtrack to a 96 kHz/24-bit WAV file, which I opened in Adobe Audition to get a peek at the spectra and amplitudes of the music clips. Take a look at the plot that I created from the Adobe tool:
Figure 1 – The spectra of the tune played in the AudioQuest promotional video on YouTube. [Click to enlarge]
I haven't posted a spectragraph for a number of months so let me briefly describe what the producers of this video did with each music sample. Note the red line on the plot, which shows the spectra of the "baseline" generic cable. It shows a continuous attenuation as the frequencies increase with a sharp corner at about 17500 Hz.
The AudioQuest "Pearl" model starts at the same amplitude at the low frequencies but at around 2000 Hz it doesn't have the same roll off as the generic cable. In other words, it's much louder (by as much as 10 dB!) than the baseline or inexpensive HDMI cable. Curiously, it doesn't have the sharp corner at 17500 Hz. It seems the engineers at AudioQuest have figured out a way to do some advantageous digital signal processing on the data stream during the transmission. Or more likely, they modified the tonal characteristics and equalization during a post production stage.
Each subsequent cable with their attendant increased price, improves on the previous one with the same modification. Of course, the "Chocolate" AudioQuest sounds the best. It was the loudest, brightest, and had the smoothest equalization of any of the less expensive models.
This is fraud. Any company that would produce a sales video full of faked results and then post it on YouTube (or anywhere else) is not deserving our your business. They're not alone, of course. But this is so blatant and deliberate, that it deserves to be called out. At least Geoff Kaitt of Machina Dynamics admits that he's a snake oil salesman.
And there's a representative of AudioQuest on the CTA Audio Board. I get booted from the board because I tell the truth but AudioQuest gets a pass for falsifying their ad. As one of their representative told me in an email exchange, "the truth is bad for commerce" [Editor's NOTE: The actual quote was, "It's bad for enterprise". I went back and checked the email thread.]. So the solution is to cheat.
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Oh boy, all this cable and "tunning" gadgets (like the ones from Synergistic Research) are all a HUGE scam. Honestly, i don't understand how can this things even be legal?
BTW, what cables do you use? And why do you pick them (i mean, what is your criteria)?
I choose mine cables based on the quality of construcion vs price. I am pretty sure that i won't spend my time listening different cables for my system… never! It's pure marketing.
Best regards!
Mark, thank you for continuing to be the voice of reason!
This cable stuff always makes me laugh. You are right, digital is digital. Unless the cable is faulty and stops the bits from flowing or is intermittent in transmission a $10 HDMI cable is just as good. Same for USB cables and all the rest.
Thanks for writing about this. I'm a newcomer and a small player in this industry. I do my own marketing, but I can't look people in the eye and tell lies that I know are wrong just to sell my products. It makes me sick that everyone gets away with this type marketing. It's very discouraging.
I have had 1 experience that says more money improves an HDMI cable. This involved Monster cables. The$ 80.00 cable gave a grainy picture, whereas the upgraded $200.00 cable was great. It is possible that the first cable was just defective. Some no name cables provided by our cable company have performed well. It is easy to waste money on accessories. Thanks for telling it like it is.
Thankyou so much, people spend money on worthless items every day, you have prevented this injustice.
Quality high definition music is a life long hunt, that I enjoy , so I very much appreciate your honesty and detailed descriptions in your mailing.
Wow…I've sat through a number of AQ demos and have noticed them juicing the volume, but they've always hidden it under the guise of fading in/out the music. I spot it, and try to give them the benefit of the doubt by saying, well, maybe they're not doing it intentionally. Doing it in a recorded video where a simple analysis can reveal the fraud…that's just blatant.
I have been an AQ dealer for many years. It is not the practice in my store to "goose" the volume. I consider it dishonest and distasteful. Back in the old days as a Levinson dealer we could adjust volume to .1db, which made truly matched speaker comparisons easier. Not perfect because of the variance in speaker response. This is still not exact because of the averaging involved in pink noise, but it was close and we were aware of and dealing with the issue. With cable comparisons the volume was never touched. That's why God gave us a mute button.
I've no idea what is going on here. I have not loved every single Audioquest product although I'm a loyal dealer. We sometimes disagree about things but I have no experience with them doing any kind of rigged demo and I've seen plenty. The implication that every AQ dealer plays the games with level that were implied in a post is absurd and an insult to conscientious dealers. This is obviously bothersome and I hope the issue gets cleared up, whatever the case may be. I use a Diamond USB cable on my DAC. It's not louder, it's improvements over Chocolate are subtle but worthwhile in my view. Nothing like the over the top measurements that were taken.
Frankly I don't get it. If Audioquest did something wrong it should be investigated. If someone else did in the name of Audioquest, that should be dealt with since it is difficult to view it as anything but fraud and the people I know well at AQ are the antithesis of that.
The "improvement" that you hear between the chocolate and the diamond USB is in your head. It doesn't exist in external reality.
Fundamentally, wouldn't the playback system have to be of the "Diamond" quality in order to reproduce the full range of fidelity claimed for the high-end cables in any case? If my play-back system uses "standard" cables, how would my system be capable of playing back the full-range of sound purported to be delivered only through "diamond" cables? H Given a "standard" system, the consumer shouldn't be able to discern ANY difference in fidelity when playing back the "demo". The fact that *any* system can reproduce the (fraudulent) differences in fidelity exhibited by the different cables should inherently disqualify the "demo" as completely fabricated.
The thing is, HDMI is a digital format.
The audio is encoded into a digital signal, 1s and zeros, which are given by high and low voltage pulses.
This is then decoded at the recieving end.
You can't add noise to the signal, unlike analogue, because what interference or noise in the cable will do is mess up the encoded signal, the ones, the zeros. It won't add background noise, or not pass certain frequencies, what it'll do is randomly mess up the information, and it'll decode to something different.
With a Digital system like this, if it works, if the signal gets through, then it gets through in exactly the same fidelity. Interference or line issues will prevent the signal from coming through correctly, not attenuate or add noise.
What they're preying on is old school Analogue logic. Analogue signals are susceptible to noise in the line, which is then reproduced by the speaker. Because the audio signal travels along the cable as an audio signal, with a frequency spectrum, it is subject to attenuation by filtering effects, reactive or inductive effects on the cable changing the attenuation of different frequencies. Noise, caused by EM disturbance can also be added to the signal, as any long wire is essentially an antennae, and strong enough EM fields will be picked up.
Any digital cable that functions, up to standard, will pass the signal, and will function the same as any other. It's relatively simple, because usually we're looking at the difference between 0 and 5 V, which is just plain hard to mess up. The digital signal is just far stronger than any noise introduced, which is why you don't experience intermittent garbled noise from a digital cable that isn't severely damaged.
It's a scam that's playing on people's desires for the best equipment that hopes that you won't know the difference between digital and analogue.
With an analogue signal, you do want the best possible components at each point, even if you've only got a poor speaker, the better the cable, the less noise you add to the signal. You will see an improvement in an analogue signal even if you're using poor speakers by using a better cable, but unless you're looking at a long or damaged cable, usually they won't cause many problems anyway. It's just completely irrelevant to digital.
Thanks Mark Waldrep. This post is awesome, it's an epic takedown of a very scummy business practice. Love the inclusion of data and analysis too.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
And when any manufacturer brings up directionality for an AC signal, the bulshit alert goes off.
Are any of the higher priced hdmi or usb cables worth the money? I know people who swear by their cables but I can't figure out why the ones and zeroes would be coming through any more efficiently. It's pretty apparent when video and audio data isn't coming through in a timely fashion. But once the bits are flowing, does a more expensive cable make them flow better? I can see the case for analog cables but have never understood digital. Thanks for any comments. My problems with erection began after 40 years and sometimes erection just disappeared for an unexplained reason. Many people advised me to buy Cialis online in Cial online supplements so I tried it and the effect was great. Usually I take 20 mg Cialis pill one or two times a week. I had a little headache at the beginning but now I feel great.
For the physics-electrons flow at the speed of light along the cable. The medium matters pretty little, the reduction in speed is unnoticeable to a human. What is changed by the quality is the amount of current that can be delivered, because of resistance. Resistance means that more power is lost to heat, which is bad all around.
The thing is, digital signals aren't trying to pass current. The other end of the cable has a massive impedance in the socket, it's not drawing power, it's trying to see the voltage delivered. We're talking really really low amperage here. So with digital, it works or it doesn't.
So a higher quality cable doesn't improve the transmission speed, the transmission rate is fixed by the protocol, by how fast the timer cycles. You gain no speed, no extra data transmission, from a better cable. You might get a gold plated tip on it which will stop it from corroding, but if your USB and HDMI connections are rusting, you are doing something very, very wrong.
You'll only see an improvement to a functioning cable in analogue. Not in digital.
Cal, I agree with most of your comment, but I want to provide one correction. Electrons do not flow at the speed of light along the cable, it is the electromagnetic wave that is moving along the cable. This wave moves very quickly, but the speed is less than the speed of light in a vacuum.
This blog discusses the propagation speed, with particular attention to analog speaker (or microphone) cables.
HDMI cables do matter. The HDMI standard is not very robust to interference, unlike DVI or DisplayPort and marginal HDMI cables can certainly have unacceptable error rates, or be limited to 1080p resolution. I have some Apple HDMI cables, nice and very thin, but they struggle with 4K. Make sure you check the bandwidth rating on the cable to ensure it is future-proof. My inexpensive Monoprice Redmere cables (6ft, 18Gbps, rated for 4K) work just fine, although some devices have compatibility issues with Redmere active cables.
That said, snake oil vendors like AudioQuest are not the kind to spend money on improved conductors, shielding or connectors. You are better off getting cables from a company that caters to pros like Blue jeans Cable (although I have been disappointed by the durability of some of their HDMI cables), or simply Monoprice/Amazon/whatever.
As you state, Mark, appears that each succesive sample had a higher amplitude. Is there no other reason possible for these changes except human manipulation of the loudness? So, wire composition cannot explain these differences? How do we know that?
As we both know, your eyes are far more acute than ears that tolerate significant non-linearities before they object.
The entire AQ crew including Bill Lowe visited my shop a while back. They left samples of cables, including their top HDMI. Forgetting audio, comparing various HDMI cables for picture quality, all of the several viewers agreed on every back and forth that the picture was clearly more detailed and color saturated on the top AQ cable.
Don't get me wrong; I am not a big fan of HDMI as an audio carrier, though it has gotten better from v. 1.1 to 1.4
Just my two cents. Thanks.
Good job Mark…
Are there no advertising regulating bodies in the US to deal with these kinds of fraudulent ads? Terrible. At the same time I think these are desperate measures suggesting they really need to SELL SELL SELL THESE CABLES!!!
Thank you, i was suppose to do this but forgot. Glad someone did it, i think we are closer for actual class action lawsuit.
Not sure about anyone else, but I'm ready for some positive news or a good audio story. Let's just resign to the fact that the audio "business" and "fidelity" are oxymorons. Pseudo science is amuck whatever the medium, so it goes on the WWW.
It would be great to discuss the "good stuff" and I for one await the long overdue discussion over the hardware and software of surround audio.
How's the "room" coming Mark ?
Hi Mark,
Many thanks for your excellent posts and your valuable contribution to our quest for the best enjoyment of music, which is the ultimate goal of high fidelity reproduction.
The truth is, and alays was, the most dangerous obstable for the ones who lack talent or skill.
Telling the truth makes you a dangerous person for weak and fraudulent people.
I thank you for being the courageous defender of the truth acting as a beacon in the darkness of fraudulent products.
Respectfully Yours,
Mark, please forward this to the State Attny General. AudioQuest should be brought up on fraud charges and everyone who has their cables need to start a class action law suit to recover their costs for buying these phony cables.
My first "real" job (one not in the food industry) out of high school was as a electronic technician in an environmental test laboratory. Every kind of capacitor, resistor, inductor and even wire and connectors were tested in controlled humidity, temperature, and vibration environments to determine the effects of change upon electrical parameters. As to be expected, not all components responded in the same way. Instrumentation and tests, not human hearing, sight or touch determined which components were selected for inclusion in a missile's circuitry.
Living in a small town in Idaho, three hours from the nearest Wal-Mart and Best Buy presented a challange a few years back when I sold my 50″ Pioneer plazma and acquired a 60″ Elite KURO. The HDMI spec was still on V2 as I recall with some equipment still using DVI. This required an adapter. I had assembled all this using Blue Jeans cable and a required adapter and found the DVD player could talk to the TV 100% of the time. After installing the new KURO however, things changed. It often took several DVD startups to get the player to talk to the tv. What to do? I then remembered my included "Geek Squad" tech support from BB.
They convinced me to try a new HDMI cable. They were 100% sure that they had one from MONSTER that would absolutely work for about $325 (20 ft). I made the six hour round trip and installed the shiny cable. Guess what? This cable was picking up noise (fluorescent light?) and the screen was covered at all times with dots and snow. This was clearly a cable shielding issue. (HDMI is done through twisted-pair technology, not co-axial technology known in the broadcast industry to be useful for hundreds of feet. Its prime design function is to preserve DRM info, not carry a flawless signal.) In any case, the problem was solved with a new DVI/HDMI adapter. So much for expensive cables. Took it back to BB.
Blue Jeans, Outlaw Audio and a few other companies offer cables that work because of careful construction and testing, not snake oil. Buyer-B-Ware(y).
It's not funny but I do so love watching AQ getting caught with their pants down
Snake oilers!
Once again shame on you to the controllers of the CTA board for supporting dis-honesty.
Thanks Mark
Hello Mark
Thanks for digging into the cable magic swamp. Whoever is in charge of marketing for that company needs to be fired. It's my understanding that all audio cables have some type of shielding, with the other concern wire size. Clearly both items can be overdone for sales purposes.
We certainly agree on this, Mark! The real question is why aren't these people in jail? This is obvious fraud. I applaud you for your effort to test the audio and expose these people for what they are. I already see this article getting around on Facebook. I'll share it there now too.
These should be your first two paragraphs. This is the story plan and simple and you nailed it. "This is fraud. Any company that would produce a sales video full of faked results and then post it on YouTube (or anywhere else) is not deserving our your business. They're not alone, of course. But this is so blatant and deliberate, that it deserves to be called out. At least Geoff Kaitt of Machina Dynamics admits that he's a snake oil salesman.
"And there's a representative of AudioQuest on the CTA Audio Board. I get booted from the board because I tell the truth but AudioQuest gets a pass for falsifying their ad. As one of their representative told me in an email exchange, "the truth is bad for commerce". So the solution is to cheat."
Seems like a pretty blatant FTC violation. Even if they had not played with the signal I expect the placebo effect would have still sold some of their cables without resorting to these tactics.
Hi Mark,
If the blog stops I'll know the Hit Squads got there before the Lawyers.
I don't stream any HRA. I only listen to AIX DVD-Audio. I still haven't decided which two discs I want from the KS promo.
I can't get enough. Keep it coming!
Thank you for using your public forum to point out the fraud.
If only more and more audio engineers and those involved in the recording industry would stand up to this bullshit.
That all said, there's so much gullibility among many "audiophiles", that they will keep buying that crap. They will also claim to hear the differences when A/B testing. Even when the vendor demoing the product is not actually pulling any strings, these guys are going to hear a difference, especially when in a room or peers.
Unfortunately some people can be easily conned and others are great at the art of being the conman.
So in the last two years I got rid of all my generic cables and connectors and speaker wire and switched it all out for AudioQuest branded components. Now, having said that I didn't pay retail for most of it (other than the Jitterbugs and they were only $50 not a big deal) and bought some used and didn't buy anything but the one-or-two-notch-up from-basic stuff. It works to my satisfaction so I am not feeling ripped off. Would I ever go for the ultra expensive stuff no way I also see no benefit (no matter who is the vendor). For this reason I spend little or no time looking at interconnects of any kind at shows I attend.
Is it OK if I bought it all because the logo looks cool?? Grin.
By the way has anyone ever evaluated Mapleshade wiring and tweaks? I'm assuming more snake oil, however it's all quite quirky in looks.
You should (actually, you shouldn't) listen to AudioQuest preach about computer audio. I have attended one of their seminars and the amount of voodoo that came out of the guy's mouth was staggering.
Why they are in business is beyond me.
My goodness….I suppose you guys didn't follow the whole "Cinnamon" Ethernet cable fiasco? Sigh.
I recently bought some AudioQuest cables … not the high end ones. They seem well made. I really can't hear the difference but for me it was about giving a SPDIF converter feed from my computer to my amplifier's built-in DAC a chance to perform.
When it comes to cables I have a friend who swears he can tell the difference but I have caught him out a couple of times when listening to recordings he didn't know were poor quality MP3s!
At the end of the day it should be about our hearing and being able to tell the difference. So in this instance it sounds that the manufacturer understands this and chose to 'fix' the results! Not good.
Moral of the story – listen to everything before you buy! If you are happy nothing else really matters.
If only I could get an AQ cable to connect to this — link to Urban Outfitters page — then I would have perfect sound!
Over 6,000 hits on this post. Someone slamming your server or did you just get really popular?
I agree. One way or another I think this test had to be rigged. The most obvious way was to adjust the gain and FR for each one. A less obvious way would be to have somehow used these HDMI cables in an analog mode, not as they were intended. Either way or any other way, the results have no explanation I can think of if used in any kind of valid test. I am not a believer in audiophile wires anyway. Wire is described by the Telegrapher's Equation. It is nothing more than a distributed parameter filter. The equation has proven a reliable predictor of performance for almost 150 years.
There is nothing a wire can do to an analog signal that an equalizer can't also do more predictably, reliably, and much cheaper. IMO audiophile wires is a sucker's game that relies on consumer ignorance to succeed.
I'm trying to figure out a possible test that might be able to show in a graphical manner any difference in an audio signal between two or more different cables. It could be speaker cables, interconnect cables, etc.
Get a high quality recording of a piano playing ONE note at a time from the lowest note to the highest note. Since a piano covers a pretty range from 27.5 Hz to 4186Hz as the fundamental frequency and they also have various harmonics, etc. with each note played. Now, get a MLSSA system and conduct a harmonic structure waterfall that can test between each cable being used. Then see how much difference there is with each note being played. Since it's a high quality recording of the same note on the same piano, and the only difference is a cable in the system, then any differences in the harmonic structure should show up. If there is any difference in the harmonic structure of the same recording of single notes being played on a piano, then it's possible to hear those differences in a high quality recording. I've never used the MLSSA system in this manner, but I'm sure there has to be someone that can perform this test with a high degree of integrity. Anyone have any intelligent arguments for or against this based on actually performing such a test?
I'm wondering if the cable mfg have done this sort of test and if so, do they find this a valid test and if not why?
Another test that I do when comparing two different cables.
I have my own method for testing speaker and interconnect cables that have proven to me that there CAN be a difference between cables, but not always since SOME cables simply aren't different enough between the two cables being tested, but I have found two mfg of cables that consistently pass this test when compared to a small number of generic cables. The test I do is a ear fatigue test. I set the ave SPL at the listening position to 85dB and I have a selection of good quality recordings I'm familiar with. I ensure that I am listening to my stereo when there is a low ambient noise level. I don't have to know which cables are being used as I just pay attention to whether or not there is a pain in my ears or I simply can't listen to the stereo for long periods of time because it's causing too much distortions which cause ear fatigue. Some cables simply had too much distortion and I couldn't listen to my system at that SPL for longer than a couple of minutes and some cables I can listen to my system at the same SPL all day long without any pain and ear fatigue. I have read many reports from audiologists that suggest that 85dB should be a comfortable listening level without causing short term or long term hearing problems. I have found two brands of cables that have a passive filter network wired in parallel to pass this test with flying colors. I have NEVER experienced any ear fatigue at that SPL with good quality recordings and I can listen to my stereo for extended periods of time with no pain. However, I have experienced a ear fatigue after only a few minute with everything set the same. I haven't tried this with every cable, but with the small samples of cables I have tested this, I consistently get great results with only two mfg of cables. Those brands are MIT and Transparent. No, I don't work for either company and no, they aren't paying me money or giving me free product to get me to endorse them. I haven't tried every brand/model cable with this test, so I can't comment on whether or not other cables would pass this test. I know my speakers are of good quality and my power DAC is of good working order, so I have removed them as causing any distortions.
All I can say is try it and see for yourself if you sense any ear fatigue. I learned a LONG time ago that distortions in certain frequency ranges can cause ear fatigue and a pain in my ears, so I'm not making this up.
Anyone with any real life experiences to share?
I guess we can thank the same consultants and / or focus group wranglers who subliminally convinced the masses that loud was superior to dynamic range. I have to wonder if they were spawned from a corporate giant selling HRA turntables or a similarly nefarious smoke & mirror manufacturer.
This is a nice one:
That test only represents that test. There are other tests of other cables that have and can be done. The problem is that I personally do my own listening tests and the first thing I do is play music at a prescribed 85dB SPL and I have a variety of recordings I'm VERY familiar with and I just listen to cables until I get ear fatigue. Some cables, believe it or not, I had to shut off my system because of ear fatigue and I simply couldn't listen for more than 5 minutes. Other cables using the exact same everything I could listen to all day long with absolutely no pain, no ear fatigue. I have only run across two brands of cables (their cheapest cables pass this test, so one doesn't necessarily have to spend $$ on their more expensive cables) that consistently pass this ear fatigue test.
I know what we all hear things differently, but I have gotten to the point where small amounts of distortions are painful and I simply can't sit in a room for long periods of time if the system doesn't sound good. This is what prompted me to perform cable tests to figure out how long I can listen to my system at a designated SPL that's well within the guidelines of long term listening.
Once I decide if the cable can be used for long periods of time without ear fatigue, then I listen to certain tracks that have acoustic bass, drums, guitar, voice, various acoustic instruments that are recorded and mastered without audio compression, limiting, etc. so I have a very natural recording to begin with. Recordings of electric instruments, heavy signal processing, etc. etc. is much more difficult to hear any such differences in cables, which is probably why a lot of people can't hear a difference. Most people don't listen to acoustic recordings, most people listen to pop music that has electronic instruments, etc. and most pop recordings, IMO sound like crap to begin with.
Also, be VERY skeptical of any listening test where they use questionable source material or they add switching devices. The reason is they add other cables along with switch boxes and those other cables might neutralize any sonic differences in cables, so it's very difficult to compare cables using a switch box environment. BTW, the recording used in that cable test sucked. I thought it was a poor recording to use. I like to hear upright bass, grand piano, acoustic guitar. Why? If recorded well in a good sounding room, these instruments have a lot of harmonic structure. A classical orchestra recording is also good to listen to to hear separation between instruments. The thing is, if the people constructing the listening test want to debunk differences in cables, they can conjure up ways to make it more difficult in telling if there is a difference. So I prefer to do my own listening tests in a room, stereo and source material that I'm VERY familiar with and doing ear fatigue tests first. Then listening to the quality of bass, mid range and high frequency reproduction, separation between instruments, etc. etc. and sometimes those tests can take a long time over a period of several days or a week or two because I have to be well rested, with no interruptions. Sometimes I hear a noticeable difference very quickly, sometimes not.
Maybe this approach will help: Remember provenance — where we look at the conditions at the source of a recording? Let's bypass the details of proving or disproving how a cable affects sound. Let's ask for the credentials of the designer. EE degrees are hard enough to obtain that those with the real ones will probably promptly admit their Alma Mater. No degree, no sale.
Wait–Geoff Kait admitted he's a snake-oil salesman and I missed it?
The almost apology letter from AQ owner William Low was posted at Stereophile: http://www.stereophile.com/content/open-letter-bill-low-audioquest#zHa9seYA4KOHDsi3.97
By clicking on the link, you'll be helping Stereophile make money off their banner ads from Nordost. Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
…in which they 'forgot' to mention that David Ellington is indeed a regional sales manager for Audioquest. And he's mighty proud of his double digit growth in sales numbers:
With digital audio products, isn't JITTER one of the biggest issues? Is there some form of reliable jitter measurement that can be done with cables to see if one has lower levels of jitter than another? Is that something someone can perform?
How about frequency response measurements of analog cables? Is there certain test equipment that must be used? I read that one cable mfg had HP Measurement (now Agilent) created single channel FFT analyzers because dual channel FFT analyzers didn't work. if an analog cable is essentially a filter, since there are measurable amounts of resistance, capacitance, and inductance, then it's filtering whatever is passing through the signal. Well, how do you measure that "curve"? There has to be precision measurement equipment to show that curve. I have read reviews of cables and some reviewers mention that one cable is brighter or darker sounding than another. That would indicate to me that there must be some form of frequency response measurement to show that the audio signal passion through that cable is being altered, much like a EQ alters an audio signal.
I read an interview with Bob Ludwig and he mentioned that cables inherently damage the audio signal and it's just a matter of getting a cable that doesn't damage the signal. maybe he's done some tests before he decided to replace all of his cables with expensive cables in his mastering studio. I would think that he, of all people, would be able to hear differences in cables since he does have a really nice play back system and his job entails listening to master recordings and mastering them for public consumption. I have to believe he might be able to help this with whatever research he's done. He is, after all, one of the most prestigious mastering engineers. How about SkyWalker Sound? They have also dealt with replacing cables in their sound stage and they are well regarded as a top studio for film and audio recordings. What measurements did they do before they replaced their cables with expensive cabling?
From my experience, recording and mastering studios don't like ripping out cables and spending a ton of money on new cabling unless there is a measurement and audible difference. I know they aren't getting their cables for free and even at a discount due to the volume of purchase, it's still a very expensive proposition. maybe they can help identify what measurements they performed before they made the jump to more expensive cabling.
Well done Mark.
Weasel Words via Stereophile
Mark, I think a reply to the letter is in order. A few questions to ask would be:
Why did he mention the shop that produced the video but 'forgot' to mention his own sales manager was presenting it.
Why did it take him a year to respond to a video?
Is he firing the sales manager for using fraudulent methods to flog his products?
Would he be happy to 'test' the video that he somehow can't find if you gave him your downloaded version?
Does his staff drive Volkswagens? (sorry, thought it would be funny 🙂
I have a comment that's unrelated to the Audioquest, but it's still something that I feel is worthy of a response.
With the advent of 24 Bit recordings, since the frequency response is higher than with 16 bit, or at least it's supposed to, why aren't more studios using these later generation microphones that companies such as Earthworks sells. Most microphones don't have a frequency response curve that extends past 20KHz and some don't even go to even 20kHz, but Earthworks microphones have frequency response curves that are essentially flat that some of them go down to 9Hz and up to as much as 30kHz, plus they can handle up to 145dB or in that range.
Other microphones that have been on the market since the analog days sometimes don't have these kind of wide frequency response ranges and/or can't handle SPL's that are as high as the Earthworks.
What I'm get at is that if the high res bit and sample rates are capable of dealing with extended frequency and dynamic range,, wouldn't it make sense to use microphones that also have extended frequency range and dynamic range so that we can take advantage of idea of "high res"?
What a well commented and debated topic. Always will be.
Topic at hand; no matter what we read into on HDMI qualities, it does come down to preference and what you see or hear is a difference to YOU.
Like a car, everyone has a taste, preference and belief in a 'better' brand, etc.
For audio, why don't the audiophiles try analogue, direct out audio or XLR out; now there is where cables actually do make a difference to audio quality and listening experience.
As for HDMI video.. 1's & 0's, Yes. But I did compare for myself a Kordz $300 3metre HDMI cable vs a generic $80 from my Blu-ray out to my screen and there was noticeable slight sharpness loss and, in particular, subtitle blurring and 'off' colouring with the $80. Though slight; but to a trained eye; looking for variation I noticed it.
So…. Somewhere there is differences in 100% functional cables.
Is Audio Quest snake oil selling? I don't know… But you may be selling your system and investment short with a $20 or $50 HDMI cable.
Funny things happen …
I was on the Stereophile web-page with the answer of Mr. Low yesterday
( http://www.stereophile.com/content/open-letter-bill-low-audioquest#cpXIJKvbUtAAVZd3.97 ) and there were 6 (in words 'six') pages of reader comments. When I was on the Page today only 4 pages were left.
Very strange
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I went diving yesterday in Key Largo - armed with pole spear and camera, a bit challenging having all the gear dangling from the weight belt. I put together a brief video, think it captures everything. I did notice that the fish had completely different reactions to me when I would film opposed to hunt - sixth sense. Plus, I can imagine my muscles being tense from pulling back on the spear.
The lemon shark was on a hook that was meant for a barracuda - it was released and swam away.
In reference to a prior posting regarding the "taste's like bacon - hog fish" - I need to give credit where it's do: a friend of mine, Craig, mentioned it when I told him about the hog.


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I am so excited to see "Twilight" in theaters! He is so cute in that movie, in real-life not so much my type, but in the movie he is hot! (The guy that plays Edward Cullen, Robert Pattinson), anyway, I know some of you are wondering when I am going to post my MMU collection, I will do that soon along with others I just didn't add in my previous collection post (eyeliners, fluidlines, brushes, loose beauty powders, etc), since some of you are MMU addicts! Anyway onto the review!
Use: All over the face or problem areas where acne appears. Just a simple face powder you use before bed, translucent, no color.
It was hard for me to rate this simply because I can't tell if it really did anything for me, for one thing, I couldn't use it for the longest time to test it out because I didn't get or have a pimple, I know! The one time I actually wanted a pimple, it never came, LOL. So when I finally got a tiny one (be careful what you wish for!), I applied the powder on a fresh clean face BEFORE my moisturizer, and like any powder, it absorbed oil relatively quickly. (Just patted the sponge all over my problem area)
I slept like normal, and in the morning didn't really notice a difference, so I used it for an additional 3 nights, and DID notice it shrink in size, nothing too drastic, but it was less painful and shrunk in size, but then again who knows if it just did it on its own. I wanna give it another go around to really give it a more accurate review, then I can really let you ladies know how or IF it works. I bought this from the Marukai market in Azusa for around $10.
As of right now, I can say it's good at absorbing oil, so for those of you who don't wear foundation but just want to absorb the oil, this is good to try out. I think it's also safe to say that you can use it UNDER your makeup primer or under or over your moisturizer.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Product Review: Acmedica Acne Night Powder
15 comments
- FuN and MakeUp said...
these kinda products r so confusing.. lol i dont know too much and i dont think i can learn! im scared =X i mite end up puttin everythin on my face and breakin ouT even more haha im still tryin to learn how to explain where i put my eye shadows... lol shrugs*
- November 6, 2008 at 1:14 AM
- *KiM* said...
wow...you rarely get pimples??? you're soo lucky girl =)
- November 6, 2008 at 1:59 AM
- *KiM* said...
wow..you rarely get pimples??? you're soo lucky girl =)
- November 6, 2008 at 2:00 AM
- im done said...
i feel so retarded for asking but whats MMU?
oh i was waiting for this review too.
- November 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
hmm interesting concept there...i have problems reviewing products like this too cuz i usually have a blemish only once in a while too...
- November 6, 2008 at 6:06 AM
- Anastasia said...
Ew, Twilight, really? Some girl counted how many times the book referenced Edward as "beautiful", it was huge. It's like Anita Blake written for 13 year olds :/
I just started using the Ly-Na Pearl cream you reviewed, and love it, I've been getting new breakouts on my chin consistently for months, and this is the first time I haven't, huzzah!
- November 6, 2008 at 6:20 AM
- Anastasia said...
Ooh book recommendations, my forte!
For a fabulous stand-alone book (rather than becoming engrossed in a series, it does have a sequel but I wouldn't recommend it) Julia Bertagna's Exodus is brilliant. The blurb on the back cover really doesn't do it justice, it's about a girl called Mara who lives on an island, Wing. It's set in the fuuutuuure and the water levels have risen everywhere, drowning most of the world, and soon her island will be gone.
Their version of the internet is a relic, now, something called the Weave which works like virtual reality, and using it she discovers news reels about "Sky Cities" that were rumored to have been built to save humanity from the rising tides, so she and her family and island inhabitants and whatnot set off to try and find them. But all is not what it seems! It's an awesome book, anyway, and her love interest is far more thrilling than Edward. I'd highly recommend that.
Much more fantasy-ish, Garth Nix wrote a brilliant trilogy called The Old Kingdom, the first book in which is Sabriel, second Lirael, third Abhorsen. That's totally beyond the realm of reality but great, all about magic and necromancers and stuff, but it's not like... You know you get really hardcore fantasy which has tiny type and dragons and mythic swords and stuff? It's much easier to read than that, it's more young adult, but fascinating.
Another great trilogy is the Bartimaeus trilogy by Johnathan Stroud. That's set in a modern day England, except all the politicians are magicians! Awesome, it's kind of like how today would've been if we could use magic, except it's not at all Harry Potter-esque. It's very, very funny, and similar in style to Terry Pratchett, with amusing footnotes.
I actually read a hell of a lot, and those are on my like, top 5 list, out of a very selective list ;x
For a more sophisticated read, the classic Stranger In A Strange Land by sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein is one of those groundbreaking books that will have you looking at the world in a totally different light, and if you're anything like me, you'll cry buckets at the end. I finished it on my lunchbreak at work and was totally inconsolable for several hours, I don't regret reading it, though.
For humour, Rob Grant (co-writer of British sci-fi comedy, Red Dwarf) wrote a very funny book called Incompetance (his misspelling, not mine) which follows a private detective in a future where it has become illegal to discriminate when hiring on grounds of gross incompetence. So he's trying to catch a very competent serial killer, and thwarted every single step of the way by hilariously stupid people in every possible profession.
Just depends what you're in the mood for! :3
- November 6, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- roxy. said...
the packaging is so cute! can't wait for your review though =] AAAND your MMU collection! yay
- November 6, 2008 at 8:51 AM
- Misa said...
Yeah, Twilight's writing wasn't so great, but the plot is obviously what counted, because I'm highly anticipating the movie now too. I'm not expecting anything special but to see Robert as Edward *swoon* haha
hmm, how much is that Acmedica. I really only break out once a month...if you know what I mean... but maybe that'll help. My Clean and Clear spot treatment works the rest of the month, but around that time, nothing seems to clear my face.
- November 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- Psalm 23 said...
hey girl,not sure if you posted the ingredients for this powder up....if you did I'm sorry I didn't check. If not would you be able to tell me what its made of?? thanks girl.
- November 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- Tracy Roa said...
Must you rub it in our faces that you rarely get pimples?! :P Could you let me know what the ingredients are in this powder? I might end up going to Marukai again. Zac is obsessed with the food at The Loft by my cousin's house (she lives close to the market), and we just got the Marukai mailer. Lots of stuff on sale!
- November 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Emeria said...
ahhh i'm sooooo freakin excited for twilight too!!!..in the movie he looks soo good!!! :d yummm yumm yummm! did you get to read it?
- November 6, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Mac It Pink said...
OHH i do like the concept..can I have your skin..for..um..forever? lol My skin has weird mood swings. lol Thanks for the review. Might have to check it out when I go to so cal again. Off Marukai or Ohayo! :)
<3 Penelope
- November 6, 2008 at 5:05 PM
- Stephie said...
i LOVE LOVE LOVE twilight! i swear i'm gonna be first in line! lol :)
- November 7, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- PamCakes said...
I love the eyes!
- November 7, 2008 at 1:23 PM


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