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Phonograph
Gramophone
Radio
LP Player • 8 Track
1877 – Today
An overview on how we listen to
1887
1895
1958
1964
First device to
Ceramic disks
First voice over
Known as vinyl
Popular in cars
record human
instead of wax
radio in 1920
of the time
voice
cylinders
High Resolution
MP3
CD Player
Walkman Cassette Player
1998
1984
1978
1965
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Next Big
Thing?
First digital format. Compact disks
Portable cassette
allowed more
were more reliable. player. Invented in
Not the next big thing, music to be held
higher quality, and Japan, and
less convenient. costs in a given space
held more music
completely
more, requires more
memory space, and
f
than anything blew up
before
new devices to run with
no audible improvment
We have already achieved
what can be considered “perfect
audio” by the standards of the human
ear. High resolution is higher quality in
purely a technical sense
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The fir t solid state
memo y player held only 32
minut s of music
A single phonograph
cylinder held 2 minutes
of music. while an iPod
has the potential for 160.000
Used small
cartridges
more reliable
than 8-tracks
Cassettes were
invented around 1935.
but were too expensive
for the mass market at that
point
$$$
Vinyl record sales Ill
increased over
17% in 2012
v. 4
Drew Sanders
Music players have progressively gotten
smaller and more portible over the years.
moving from table tops to cars to belts to
pockets.
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http://www.huffingtonost.com/2013/01/09/music-sales-2012-digital-physicaLn_2440380.html
http://www.phs.orgiwgbh/pages/frontline/shows/musichnsidehron.html