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Paris' Extraordinary Gramaphone Museum Is Under Threat
Japanese Audiophile Takes Power Conditioning To A New LevelThe Paris Gramaphone Museum contains an unprecedented display of over 250 phonographs,gramaphones,jukeboxes,and turntables charting the technological advances that defined the recording industry.Among it's array of horns abd platters are the first tinfoil phonographs from 1878,Thomas Edison's Talking Doll invented 2 years later,and the first machine to ever play a recorded disc created in 1890.The sad thing is that the Museum has had to
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16th Aug 2016
Japanese Audiophile Takes Power Conditioning To A New Level
Japanese Audiophile Takes Power Conditioning To A New LevelA Japanese audiophile has had an electricity pole installed in his backyard to improve the sound of his records.In the ultimate quest for audio purity,an 82 year old retired lawyer has become a contender for the world's most dedicated audiophile.He has been nicknamed "The Rock Grandpa" by his local record store.He spent $10,000 to plant a 40 feet high power pole in his garden that he has connected to the power grid to give him his o
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16th Aug 2016
The Beatles' First Recording Has Sold For $150,000
The Beatles' First Recording Has Sold For $150,000An ultra rare Beatles record has sold at auction for a staggering $150,000,fetching over 7 times it's $20,000 price tag.Recorded in 1962,and discovered in the attic of Les McGuire,the keyboardist in fellow Liverpool act Gerry And The Pacemakers,it features the first song John Lennon ever wrote "Hello Little Girl" and was cut just a few months before "Love Me Do" announced the Fab Four on the scene.The first recording to carry The Beatles name scr
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16th Aug 2016
Music Downloads Could Be No More By 2020
Music Downloads Could Be No More By 2020Nielsen,an American global information and measurement company,has reported that download sales in the US have fallen by 42% and with the rate they're falling,could be a thing of the past by 2020.Nielsen's figures are for single track downloads and confirm that purchase of songs have fallen 24% in the first half of 2016.Music Business worldwide says:"If single track sales continue to fall at this rate,purchases from download stores such as i-Tunes will be
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16th Aug 2016
High Definition Vinyl - Are We About To Get It?
HIGH DEFINITION VINYL - ARE WE ABOUT TO GET IT?Austrian company Rebeat Digital have filed a patent to develop what would be the world's first "High Definition Vinyl" technology.Capable of producing records with longer playing times (up to approximately 30%)and a wider frequency range that would potentially cut waiting times at pressing plants in the process.The HD Vinyl process would involve using 3D topographical mapping combined with a laser to burn the music direct to the stamper.This would p
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15th Aug 2016