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Aug 25, 2016 · Hi-Fi Cassette Decks The “compact cassette,” as it was called, dates to 1962 , though this format trailed in music sales behind the similarly portable 8-track cartridge deep into the ’70s.
This was my “stereo life” in the 1970’s. Personal Aside—2. My dad was an avid audiophile, from way back. He’d jumped on the “Hi-fi/stereo” bandwagon in the 1950’s and assembled a very nice stereo system as soon as ‘stereo’ became a thing in 1958. When the 1970’s receiver power race came on, he wanted one. Really bad.
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Jan 1, 2020 · That is, after all, what hi-fi is really all about. While the basic functionality of the humble loudspeaker has barely changed in the last 100 years, how and where we listen to music has changed immeasurably. At the start of the last decade that change might have meant relegating sound quality some way down the wishlist - beneath form, function ...
Mar 20, 2023 · The 70s was also when big Japanese brands such as Sony, Panasonic, Sansui and Akai took advantage of improved trade and made a massive impact on how hi-fi was perceived and sold. These companies had a huge influence in driving the market at the time, to the extent that it was widely accepted that buying a hi-fi ranked as high as third on people’s priority list following the acquisition of a ...
- Phonograph (1877) With all due respect to the French phonoautograph − a fine if bulky mechanism − most of us associate the beginning of conventional playback with Thomas Edison's phonograph design.
- Microphone (1877) Thomas Edison scored the patent (as he was wont to do), but British telegraph pioneer David Edward Hughes is commonly recognized as the auteur of our first functioning microphone.
- Headphones (1910) Long before Beats by Dre, there was Utah Mormon and electrician Nathaniel Baldwin's rudimentarily constructed, but sonically potent, cans.
- Victor Orthophonic Victrola Phonograph (1925) This Victor product's lid-top feature remains the template for turntable practicality, while ornamental, cabinet-style wood furnishing created an immediate luxury item and future antique.
Experience a journey of Hi-Fi through time! From Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph to the seamless streaming of high-quality audio, this remarkable evolution is one for the books. Magnetic tape recording and solid-state amplifiers were also part of the journey. With each development, true fidelity in sound reproduction was closer.
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Apr 20, 2020 · It’s 48 years old and sounds great. The decade of the 1970’s was unquestionably the Age of the Receiver. And what a Golden Age it was. Every year, major manufacturers like Pioneer, Kenwood, Sony, Sansui, JVC, Marantz and Sherwood introduced new and better models, with more features, more power, and lower prices.
