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My Audio Timeline

My Audio Timeline. What is Audio. Sound, when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced: "audio equipment". 1700. Audio was invented. 1878. The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle.". 1947.

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My Audio Timeline

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  1. My Audio Timeline

  2. What is Audio • Sound, when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced: "audio equipment".

  3. 1700 • Audio was invented.

  4. 1878 • The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."

  5. 1947 • Colonel Richard Ranger begins to manufacture his version of a Magnetophon. • Bing Crosby and his technical director, Murdo McKenzie, agree to audition tape recorders brought in by Jack Mullin and Richard Ranger. Mullin's is preferred, and he is brought back to record Crosby's Philco radio show. • Ampex produces its first tape recorder, the Model 200. • Major improvements are made in disk-cutting technology: the Presto 1D, Fairchild 542, and Cook feedback cutters. • The Williamson high-fidelity power amplifier circuit is published. • The first issue of Audio Engineering is published; its name is later shortened to Audio.

  6. 1975 • Digital tape recording begins to take hold in professional audio studios. • Michael Gerzon conceives of and Calrec (England) builds the "Soundfield Microphone," a coincident 4-capsule cluster with matrixed "B-format" outputs and decoded steerable 2- and 4-channel discrete outputs. • EMT produces the first digital reverberation unit as its Model 250. • Ampex introduces 456 high-output mastering tape

  7. 1995 • The first "solid-state" audio recorder, the Nagra ARES-C, is introduced. It is a battery-operated field unit recording on PCMCIA cards using MPEG-2 audio compression. • Iomega debuts high-capacity "Jaz" and "Zip" drives, useful as removable storage media for hard-disk recording.

  8. 1980 • 3M, Mitsubishi, Sony and Studer each introduces a multitrack digital recorder. • EMT introduces its Model 450 hard-disk digital recorder. • Sony introduces a palm-sized stereo cassette tape player called a "Walkman."

  9. 1987 • Digidesign markets "Sound Tools," a Macintosh-based digital workstation using DAT as its source and storage medium

  10. 1985 • Dolby introduces the "SR" Spectral Recording system.

  11. 1990 • ISDN telephone links are offered for high-end studio use. • Dolby proposes a 5-channel surround-sound scheme for home theater systems. • The write-once CD-R becomes a commercial reality. • 3M introduces 996 mastering tape, a 13 dB improvement over Scotch 111.

  12. 1996 • Record labels begin to add multimedia files to new releases, calling them "enhanced CDs." • Experimental digital recordings are made at 24 bits and 96 kHz.

  13. 1997 • DVD videodiscs and players are introduced. An audio version with 6-channel surround sound is expected to eventually supplant the CD as the chosen playback medium in the home.

  14. 1998 • The Winter Olympics open with a performance of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," played and sung by synchronizing live audio feeds from five continents with an orchestra and conductor at the Olympic stadium in Nagano, Japan, using satellite and ISDN technology. • Golden Anniversary celebration held in New York on March 11, the exact date of the first AES meeting in 1948, with ten of the original members present. • MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio appear.

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