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Thoughts from 70 years ago ... (1937 edition of the RCA Receiving Tube Manual)
“The radio tube is a marvelous device. It makes possible the performing of operations, amazing in conception, with a precision and a certainty that are astounding. It is an exceedingly sensitive and accurate instrument- the product of coordinated efforts of engineers and craftsmen. It’s construction requires materials from every corner of the earth. Its use is world wide. Its future possibilities, even in the light of present-day accomplishments, are but dimly foreseen...”
“The radio tube is a marvelous device. It makes possible the performing of operations, amazing in conception, with a precision and a certainty that are astounding. It is an exceedingly sensitive and accurate instrument-
Excerpt from “Design Philosophy” by Lynn Olson ... ( good advice for many things in life )
“...Every designer has a set of different priorities, and this is why electronics sound different. THERE IS NO BEST. Get the idea out of your head. This is a pernicious and ugly myth propagated by greedy marketers and lazy magazine reviewers. The entire notion of an “Absolute Sound” is false. Absolute to who? To some self-appointed “expert” who knows how to write and publish a magazine? Don’t be fooled. Trust what you hear; people really do hear different things, and YOUR PERCEPTIONS ARE UNIQUE TO YOU.”
“...Every designer has a set of different priorities, and this is why electronics sound different. THERE IS NO BEST. Get the idea out of your head. This is a pernicious and ugly myth propagated by greedy marketers and lazy magazine reviewers. The entire notion of an “Absolute Sound” is false. Absolute to who? To some self-
Excerpt from “ Electronic Musical Instruments” by Richard Dorf
“...This is an interesting point in all electronic instruments - perfection is undesirable! A pipe organ, a wind instrument, a violin - all of them have inherent random irregularities of pitch and volume caused by small variations in the wind supply or slight unsteadiness in the player’s control. One of the essential factors in art appreciation by the emotions is variation; MONOTONY IS INARTISTIC AND UNPLEASANT. Thus the natural slight unsteadiness of acoustic instruments is welcome, and to attain a really ideal musical instrument, the engineer should deliberately avoid the perfection which we normally look for in engineering.”
“...This is an interesting point in all electronic instruments -
Excerpt from “ A New Business Model for the Music Industry” by J. Donald Tillman
“...The popular music of today, the Top 40, is no longer reflected by local bands and musicians. In previous decades, with almost every genre of popular music, you could visit local venues and find local bands and musicians playing and writing that same type of music, whether it be folk, pop, rock, blues, jazz, or whatever. Today it’s very difficult to find any local bands that sound remotely like Madonna, N’Sync, or Snoop Dogg. The disconnect between the music industry and the local musicians has grown to a point where they’ve become worlds apart... The cultural disconnect is a side effect of the record labels moving from a model where they discover local musicians, recognize their talent and nurture their careers, to a model where the record label attempts to manufacture trends based on the data from focus groups. The former is a bottom-up approach, the music of the people as it were, while the latter is a top-down approach, where the musical trends are dictated by the record labels.
“...The popular music of today, the Top 40, is no longer reflected by local bands and musicians. In previous decades, with almost every genre of popular music, you could visit local venues and find local bands and musicians playing and writing that same type of music, whether it be folk, pop, rock, blues, jazz, or whatever. Today it’s very difficult to find any local bands that sound remotely like Madonna, N’Sync, or Snoop Dogg. The disconnect between the music industry and the local musicians has grown to a point where they’ve become worlds apart... The cultural disconnect is a side effect of the record labels moving from a model where they discover local musicians, recognize their talent and nurture their careers, to a model where the record label attempts to manufacture trends based on the data from focus groups. The former is a bottom-