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...single biggest sound advance since technicians discovered that two speakers were better than one. "I won't say when it will happen," says RCA Records Division Vice President Thomas Z. Shepard, "but digital is definitely on its way." Robert Ingebretsen, vice president of a digital recording company called Soundstream, Inc., compares conventional record listening to "looking out a dirty window: you can see, but not perfectly. Listening to a digital recording is like looking out the same window, clean." Soundstream's enthusiastic president, Thomas G. Stockham Jr., who has been working on the process since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: His Master's Digital Voice | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Digital recording may flood the market, but the deluge will be a little slow in coming. There are only a few companies with digital recording capability; Soundstream, Inc., is probably the best known in the U.S. Its classical records are available mostly in the kind of audio stores the owners like to call salons. A couple of these hybrid records-like The Cleveland Symphonic Winds lighting into Handel, Bach and Hoist (Telarc Records)-played at decent volume on a quiet evening could clear an entire neighborhood. "These hybrid records are not as good as full digital recordings," says Telarc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: His Master's Digital Voice | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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