[This was my column this week for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Sitting on a shelf in my home office is a collection of old electronic gadgets that were, in their day, state-of-the-art: a Sony
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Since the dawn of recorded audio in 1877, we’ve gone through a series of formats, starting with the wax cylinder eventually evolving into today’s streaming services. Of all the formats, the rotating disc
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Most of us are probably pretty ecumenical when it comes to choosing a format for listening to music. Digital files are just way too convenient to ignore. CDs offer excellent sound, as does
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Over the 130-ish years the recorded music industry has existed, we’ve consumed music through cylinders, shellac discs, vinyl, several iterations of magnetic tape (8-track, cassette, DAT, DCC, reel-to-reel), the CD and a couple
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Here’s a good article from NPR on how radio has shaped the course of pop music over the decades. You may never listen to radio the same way again. Music critics these days
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What’s your preferred format of music? CDs? Vinyl? Digital files? Streams? A little bit of each, maybe? And once you start drilling deeper, things get even more complicated. HD/Hi-Res audio. Neil Young’s Pono
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