Word: playbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playback. In West Hartford, Conn., self-styled Electronics Student John E. Whitley received a six months' suspended jail sentence for breaking into the West Hartford Congregational Church and stealing a tape recorder, was rearrested several months later after he broke into the West Hartford Congregational Church, stole a tape recorder...
Some models were designed for playing records, others tape. But each depended on a thoroughly binaural system, from pickup on through to home playback. This means two microphones to "hear" the performance, two systems of groovings on the same record (or double-track tape), a double-pronged tone arm, two amplifiers and two speakers. Each circuit carries the same music, but the music is caught in slightly different sonic "perspectives." In a recording of a symphony, for example, the violins will be slightly stronger in the left speaker, the brasses stronger in the right. A listener sitting between should hear...
...phonograph companies find a way to bring the costs of the system down, it will likely remain just a novelty for the well-heeled hifi. Main drawbacks at present: 1) there is no repertory of double-grooved records-only a few specimen recordings, and 2) a home system for playback might cost twice as much as today's equipment...
...individual machine that must be moved from office to office, the "PhonAudograph" is a central recording device connected through individual private wires to as many offices as need the service. The user merely picks up his special telephone, presses one button when talking, another when he wants a playback. For a correction, he presses a third button; a fourth button ends the transcription...
...three times in Philadelphia, once each in New York City, Detroit, Akron, McKeesport, Pa., and Pittsburgh. A good executive, he has built up a staff of 20 full-time workers for his project, plus some part-time help. Last week he was beginning to ship out the first 500 playback machines...