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AppleInsider said:

Apple Music is planning to launch new its Hi-Res music streaming--with higher audio quality than can be delivered through standard earphone jacks--over the next year, according to a report by Japanese site Macotakara.

AppleInsider said:

With the visibility of its Apple Music service--which has already gained millions of subscribers in its first few months--paired with its Beats hardware and its control over the Lightning Connector specification, Apple is positioned with the potential to popularize Hi-Res Audio across larger audiences than ever before, and use that as a way to sell iPhones, accessories and subscription access to music labels' content mastered in studio-quality sound.

sog35 said:

ac1234 said:

"hammered" is not that bad a comment when you look at the longer run performance - it sucks.  AAPL traded @ $100 in September 2012.  Here we are 3.25 years later staring at AAPL @ $110.  Not quite 3% compounded growth/year.  That is pathetic given the overall financial performance of Apple.  Art Levinson and Tim Cook need to do a far better job of managing the shareholder return of their jobs.  Over a $100,000,000,000 of shareholder wasted on buybacks that have done what? 

Maybe it is time for Art Levinson to go.

It is pathetic.

3 years from Sept 2012.
Spent over $130 billion in buybacks/dividends
Recorded over $130 billion in profits in those 3 years.
Grew revenue from $150 billion to almost $235 billion.

Yet the market cap of the stock is worth LESS than 3 years ago.

This is NOT a small problem.  If your stock is weak you will lose many employees who rely on stock options as compensation.  If your stock is weak, then public perception is the company is weak.

gatorguy said:

Thanks to @anantksundaram and his mention of FossPatents I see that three law professors who previously sided with Apple in other matters support Samsung in this one. They could hardly be considered anti-Apple.

cnocbui said:

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Thanks.

The sand is to deaden the enclosure so as to minimise the sound it radiates, given a speaker driver pushes as much sound out the back as it does out the front. By adding mass to the cabinet you increase it's ability to absorb the unwanted sound energy.  The sand is packed in and has little to no room to move and generate any sound due to movement, however there probably is some movement at some scale which is why it works well to limit the transmission of vibrations from the interior to the exterior, but it seems to do it's thing inaudibly.  You can shake the speakers and you won't hear anything.  The cabinets are very dead in that with music playing there is no discernible sound coming from them.

The system also has a pair of B&W 200mm woofers in a MDF box that I once made for a car I had (not quite so aesthetically pleasing).  They are driven with a Nakamichi 140W mono amp.  Apart from the 30A Power supply and the cabinets, the system is basically formed from car audio components adapted for home use.  It's a secondary system I use in conjunction with the TV with my main HFi being located in another room.  Watching any music programs on the TV sounds very nice, as does gaming on it.