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Zenith radiogram console stereo, circa 1960.. Home audio dates back before electricity, to Edison's phonograph, a monaural, low fidelity sound reproduction format. Early electrical phonographs as well as many other audio formats started out as monaural formats.
English: Zenith Stereophonic High Fidelity Phonograph (radiogram), around 1960. Date: 4 January 2006, 13:37:28 ... Zenith Stereophonic High Fidelity Phonograph ...
5.2 Two-channel high fidelity and other ... recorded music, television, video ... in the late 1950s and 1960s, stereophonic sound was marketed as seeming "richer" or ...
They consequently lobbied the FCC to adopt the Zenith/GE system. FCC tests in 1960 confirmed that the Zenith/GE stereo system was compatible with 67 kHz SCA operation, although not 41 kHz. According to Jack Hannold: [1] Crosby used a wideband FM subcarrier, providing a better signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio in stereo from all but the weakest RF ...
A good example is the FM stereo multiplex decoder module. [9] Fisher was the first to introduce stereo receivers with four channels. These innovations were brief and occurred in the mid-1970s which some [who?] consider The Second Golden Age of High Fidelity. Like many new concepts of the time such as Beta Format and VHS, there were a number of ...
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]
High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound. [1] It is popular with audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion , and a flat (neutral, uncolored) frequency response within the human hearing range .
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 ...