History of Sound Recording Technology

Although this site is primary dedicated to audio recording technologies, it’s important to remember that many video recording technologies also record audio.

The LA Times recently featured a local cassette recorder repair business.

“Chad Kassem, founder of Kansas vinyl record giant Acoustic Sounds, turned his hobby into a career–but his journey to success was anything but straightforward.”

Many scholars have documented the ways that Soviet citizens used technologies like audio tape and videotape to copy and distribute western entertainment (see for example Gene Sosin, “Magnitizdat: Uncensored Songs of Dissent” in Rudolf L.

Frederick Hart was an English engineer who immigrated to New York in 1884.

When I first built this site, it was all hand coded.

I just discovered that Malcolm Riviera (pseud. of Gary C.

A great tool for visualizing the current state of the recorded music market is the RIAA’s U.S.

According to Statistica, US sales of LP record albums increased about 14% in 2023 to about 49 million.