08-15-2016, 10:11 PM
(08-11-2016, 09:43 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(08-11-2016, 02:54 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: How does recorded sound become irrelevant?
Recorded sound in such formats as tapes and CDs become unnecessary as personal possessions (barring some copyright Gestapo). Oddly, vinyl discs seem to be making a comeback.
Recorded sound will not die. How else could one hear Schnabel on the piano, Oistrakh on the violin, or Rostropovich on the cello? Or for that matter the great singing voices of Maria Callas and Sarah Vaughn? Or Pete Fountain on the clarinet? Lionel Hampton on the marimba?
We will not need the playback intermediates of the disc or tape. Someone else might hold them in a library function.
Digital smart phones and computer speakers can't readily replace stereo hi fidelity, can they?