525: The Glory Speakers
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- Declan made an interesting observation
- Marco files a bug report… AND ACTUALLY GETS A RESPONSE
- unlike FB12026558: “Media services reset repeatedly upon initiating audio playback in iOS 16.4 betas”
- John has…returned.
- Follow-up:
- Avoiding Shoulder Surfing
- Screen Time passcodes, turns out™, do not protect against takeovers
- Protecting iCloud Photos (via Erik Smets)
- Could you previously protect Settings?
- You can actually set a many-digit numeric-only passcode
- Scam Authenticator App Steals QR Codes 😱
- Some absolute maniacs YOLO enthusiasts use no passcodes 😱 × ∞ (via Bob Von Scio)
- However, the kids are alright
- Mikael’s good point on ISP bandwidth
- Apple TV remote with touch disabled has an Achilles heel
- Yellow Things
- Avoiding Shoulder Surfing
- Apple Spring Event… Maybe?
- More on John’s COVID project
(Affiliate links abound!)
- John’s old 5.1 system: Energy 5.1 Take Classic
- Pioneer VSX-LX305
- SVS Prime Center & map
- Micca MB42X-C & map
- ELAC UC52 & map
- Polk R100
- Polk XT15
- Sonos Sub (Gen 3)
- KEF KC62
- SVS SB-1000
- Sealed vs. Ported subs
- Audio Science Review speaker forum & reviews index
- The problem with most center channel speakers
- KEF Q150
- KEF Q350
- Post-show: Some more home theatre talk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few minutes ago, Declan has shown probably more because he was procrastinating getting |
| 0:05.3 | in bed than because of genuine enthusiasm, but he was showing an unusual amount of enthusiasm |
| 0:10.3 | about the mechanism and machinations of recording. |
| 0:13.9 | And so I was explaining, oh, that's the chat room. |
| 0:16.7 | And he was talking into the microphone, and wait, nobody can hear me right now, right? |
| 0:20.5 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:21.5 | Actually, what Marco does is he plays music. |
| 0:23.8 | And I logged into ATP.fm slash live and put on my speakers and let it play for a few |
| 0:29.8 | moments. |
| 0:30.8 | And I have to concede it actually, whatever you were playing didn't sound bad. |
| 0:32.7 | This was about five to ten minutes ago. |
| 0:34.6 | And he listens for a beat. |
| 0:37.6 | This sounds like Dave Matthews. |
| 0:39.4 | Yes. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.4 | Now, in the defense of Marco, when I do play, and especially lately, I've been in a bit |
| 0:46.0 | of a kick, and oh, when were you not on a kick? |
| 0:49.0 | No, genuinely, I don't listen to that much Dave Matthews, except lately I kind of have |
| 0:52.8 | been. |
| 0:53.8 | So in the defense of Marco, when all he hears is Dave Matthews, I'm sure everything |
| 0:57.0 | sounds like Dave Matthews, but he said that completely on his own, of his own volition. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm not sure I've ever loved my son more than I did that one moment. |
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