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Looking for a medically sound excuse next time your spouse senses the audio your audio-buying bloodlust rising or catches you browsing an audio website or brochure? There’s good news from the University of Maryland:
“Music, selected by study participants because it made them feel good and brought them a sense of joy, caused tissue in the inner lining of blood vessels to dilate (or expand) in order to increase blood flow. This healthy response matches what the same researchers found in a 2005 study of laughter. On the other hand, when study volunteers listened to music they perceived as stressful, their blood vessels narrowed, producing a potentially unhealthy response that reduces blood flow…
Compared to baseline, the average upper arm blood vessel diameter increased 26 percent after the joyful music phase, while listening to music that caused anxiety narrowed blood vessels by six percent. “I was impressed with the highly significant differences both before and after listening to joyful music as well as between joyful and anxious music,” says Dr. (Michael) Miller…”
“Joyful Music May Promote Heart Health
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As many of our customers, friends and business associates know, Audiomagus has been working to establish a base of small manufacturing in the US and Canada. This has been a major part of our planning from the beginning of the business, some two years ago.
It was our feeling then that small manufacturing was a fundamentally important part of small business in the US. Making things, rather than just moving money around, was once at the core of US business — and would be at the core of it again as the global economic picture shifted.
Localized manufacturing would allow Audiomagus to have greater control and stability of quality and supply. It would allow us to better protect our Intellectual Property and it would let us control costs and cut margins so that we could provide not just better products, but also better values to our ciustomers.
It has been a very difficult process. One exacerbated by the US, and then world, financial crises. We do find some validation in recent news coming out of China regarding rising costs of materials and labor, closing factories and worker unrest.
We are continuing our efforts to make our products here. Though we are unsure of the outcome. Money is tight, credit is nonexistent, and all of us at Audiomagus are, well, tired. It is a good fight and we are comitted to going forward. We just wish we had more energy, resources and support. Time will tell…
