Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded MusicIn 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between lies a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented. |
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... Analog 3 Aluminum Cowboys: A Pretape Parable 4 Pink PseudoRealism 5 Presence Digital 6 Perfect Sound? Whatever 7 The Story of the Band That Clipped Itself to Death (and Other Dispatches from the Loudness War) 8 Tubby's Ghost Liner Notes ...
... Analog Corner” column in Stereophile. Fremer invited me to his house to hear the Caliburn, a new turntable made by the Australian company Continuum Audio Labs. He said it was the best turntable he had ever heard—and at $90,000, it ...
... analog audio device, the Caliburn builds on the same technology Edison used to record “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on wax paper. Edison's voice caused a diaphragm to vibrate. This diaphragm was attached to a stylus that responded to these ...
... analog versus digital. The analog mindset, of which the Caliburn is an extreme example, argues for the “purity” of a vinyl disc—made and played using electrical analog methods—against the supposed corruption of even the most carefully ...
... analog of the waveform being recorded. The problem is that, thanks to hysteresis, those particles don't want to move. We're good at motivating them, and we can get them almost where we want them, but no matter what we do, the ...
Contents
From the New World | |
Digital | |
Death and Other Dispatches from the Loudness | |
Liner Notes | |
Notes | |
Acknowledgments | |
Notes | |