Word: scheiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technical problem-essentially how to squeeze four channels into one groove and then play them off again with high fidelity-has long seemed insoluble. Last week, however, a man came forward who seems to have solved the puzzle. He is not an engineer but a bassoonist named Peter Scheiber who lives in Rochester, N.Y. He uses a coding system to compress four sound channels into two, overlays them on tracks in either disk or tape, and then retrieves them again...
...demonstration arranged for TIME'S music editors and a panel of scientific experts, Scheiber and his partner Tom Mowry played music ranging from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to rock and electronic music specially composed for the four-channel medium. The sound quality proved remarkably high, though not as high as equivalent tapes...
...Scheiber's process is new and virtually untested. But it does have one great commercial virtue-compatibility with existing hi-fi systems-for it requires only an "encoder" at the recording studio and a "decoder" in the home of the listener (in addition to the extra amplifiers and speakers). Yet whether the Scheiber system or something like it will really end by saving old-fashioned platter records from the tape revolution depends on the public. No one knows how record collectors will face up to the trouble and cost of replacing their favorite old recordings with new ones-either...
...long run, however, Gardner's efforts to reshape relationships among the various levels of Government, universities, corporations and private groups may prove an equally important development to the U.S. Dartmouth Historian Harry N. Scheiber has written: "The American