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Sonos- Convenience and Sound - SolutionYou can now stream music from a range of devices to speakers around your home using a wireless connection - with no great compromise on sound quality.There are different ways to do this,different products and technologies,but one of the companies to lead has been Sonos,carving out a niche as a niche mass market,mainstream solution.Sonos is an American company founded in 2002 with a simple aim  - to transform your home sound system for the digital age. …

Streaming Services - The Future Of Digital Music?Music streaming increased by 96% in 2015 and has lead to a drop of 42% in 2015 in digital downloads from sites such as i-Tunes.It is predicted that music downloads will not exist by 2020.In the news Spotify has announced that it now has 39 million paying subscribers - a figure made even more significant when you take into account the ad-supported free tier that it also offers.Apple Music in comparison had 15 million paying subscribers and was add …

How Records Are Made...With the current constant upward trend in record sales the established record pressing plants are being kept very busy.There are also new pressing plants being set up around the world to keep up with demand.In 1877,Thomas Edison was credited with inventing the phonograph,the first device to both record and playback sounds.It recorded sounds directly.It recorded music directly as indentations on a sheet of tin foil wrapped around a grooved cylinder,which would move the need …

TOWER RECORDS - ALL THINGS MUST PASSEstablished in 1960,Tower Records was a retail powerhouse with over 200 stores in 30 countries on 5 continents.From humble beginnings in a small town drugstore,Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world,and a powerful force in the music industry.In 1999 Tower Records made $1 Billion.In 2006 Tower Records filed for bankruptcy.What went wrong?Everyone thinks it was the internet that killed Tower Records.But that's not the story.It is t …

THE LONG AWAITED ROLLING STONES MONO BOXSETThe Rolling Stones 16 LP Mono boxset is due for release on the 30th September,2016.The set will be available on vinyl,CD,Standard Digital and True HD  in 96/24,192/24 and DSD and totals 156 tracks,56 of which have never been heard in Mono by "the Digital People."As with The Beatles Mono releases,between 1963 and 1969 when albums were originally released,the Mono mixes were considered more important since that's how most kids listened both on the ra …