“SOLID MUSIC” Three-Dimensional Sounds Created
Like pictures on a screen, the best of public-address amplification and loudspeaker reproduction hitherto available has lacked reality. It is not that the instruments are defective in their reproduction of pitch and volume, but the ear is a fairly selective...
The Marconi-Stille magnetic recorder-reproducer.
On Christmas Day 1932, the British Broadcasting Corporation first used a tape recorder for their broadcasts. The device used was a Marconi-Stille recorder, a giant tape machine that used steel razor tape 3mm wide and 0.08mm thick. It was necessary to run the tape at...
1932 New Phonograph Record Plays Half Hour Music Program
The phonograph, long overshadowed by the radio, now promises to come back into popularity, thanks to the development of an improved type of phonograph record recently introduced. Capable of running for a full half-hour, the new long-playing record reproduces entire...
The coming record revolution: digital discs. Popular Science (Nov, 1981)
The coming record revolution: digital discs A laser reads the compact, no-wear disc to deliver superior hi-fi By LEONARD FELDMAN A Sony technician slipped a small disc into the slot of a player no larger than a portable cassette machine. I noticed the record?\’s...
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