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English: Zenith Stereophonic High Fidelity Phonograph (radiogram), around 1960. Date: 4 January 2006, 13:37:28 ... Zenith Stereophonic High Fidelity Phonograph ...
The term "hi-fi," an abbreviation for high fidelity, was coined during this era to describe audio systems that aimed to reproduce sound with high accuracy and minimal distortion. The vinyl LP became popular during the 1950s, and the availability of affordable components such as turntables, speakers and amplifiers enhanced the sonic realism of ...
In the United States, it competed with, and ultimately lost to, the Zenith/GE system, which the FCC chose as the standard in 1961. While both systems used multiplexing to transmit the L-R stereo signal, the Crosby system used a frequency-modulated 50 kHz subcarrier, whereas the competing Zenith/GE system used an amplitude-modulated 38 kHz ...
HH Scott Model 350, c. 1961: the first FM multiplex stereo tuner sold in the U.S. The Zenith-GE pilot-tone stereo system is used throughout the world by FM broadcasting stations. It was eventually determined that the bandwidth assigned to individual FM stations was sufficient to support stereo transmissions from a single transmitter.
Phase 4 Stereo was a recording process created by the U.K. Decca Records label in 1961. [1] The process was used on U.K. Decca recordings and also those of its American subsidiary London Records during the 1960s. Phase 4 Stereo recordings were created with an innovative 10-channel, and later 20-channel, "recording console". [2]
Sound effects recording was quite the rage at the dawn of stereo, and one of these albums of train sounds was even reviewed favorably in High Fidelity magazine. A few years later, Ernie McDaniel of San Francisco radio station KFOG decided to put one of Miller's albums, Steam Railroading Under Thundering Skies , and an easy listening album, on ...
It's July 1976 in a Northern California recording studio and the rock ‘n’ roll band cutting their latest album is exhausted and wary. The coffee machine is broken. Playwright David Adjmi tells ...
Music portal; 1960s portal; Songs written or first produced in the year 1960. 1955; 1956; 1957; ... Look for a Star (song) Looking High, High, High; Love Hurts; Lover ...