[NJARC] Bluetooth Atwater Kent speaker

[David Sica]

I guess the early days of "high fidelity" may have been like "high
definition" TV: whatever improved on the existing standard was the new high.

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Alex Magoun <a.b.magoun at ieee.org> wrote:

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> Joe,
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> Thanks for the insight on the speaker's sound quality.  During research
> for my dissertation I found that the earliest reference to "high fidelity"
>  was in 1930.  At the time it was an aspiration, not an accomplishment.
> RCA began promoting "high fidelity" sound for consumers in 1938, I think,
> though members can correct me, after Harry Olson and the Camden acoustics
> lab made some significant improvements on RCA Victor's high-end consumer
> amplifiers and speakers.  Of course that wasn't as good as the high
> fidelity sound systems assembled by audiophiles starting in 1947, and one
> could easily argue that the aspiration of "high fidelity" continues apace
> today.
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