
philbagg
Just Killing Time
Without spending quite a bit of money, yes. But you could have done it. I think Dinty means technically and in terms of leaps and bounds. He may well have a point.
He couldn't....
....he's only 26

Without spending quite a bit of money, yes. But you could have done it. I think Dinty means technically and in terms of leaps and bounds. He may well have a point.
LOL! Are you serious?!?!?!
50 years ago I could not compose, record, produce and materialize music all by myself, in my bedroom, without spending quite a bit of money.
Do you not consider that a major improvement?
Without spending quite a bit of money, yes. But you could have done it. I think Dinty means technically and in terms of leaps and bounds. He may well have a point.
He couldn't... he's only 26![]()
He couldn't........he's only 26![]()
Don't know where you got that! I have a picture of me playing piano in 1957 and I was playing gigs in 1968.
How about a different way of making sound other than a speaker. Speakers are nearly the same as they were in the 1930's. They've gotten better (no surprise) but they are basically the same magnet with a diaphragm design. Same with mics.
That was my point before, that all the improvements have been in secondary things while the main things have changed very little in 50 years.
This is the opposite of the what the musical instrument manufacturers want you to think - that there's been lots of change and you should buy the latest offerings.
... 100 years from now someone will be reading these archived posts and be sparked to do just about everything listed here with the technology on hand in the future.![]()
It reminds me of all the predictions made in Popular Mechanics magazine in the 1960's.
Pretty much none of their predictions ever happened.
How about a different way of making sound other than a speaker. Speakers are nearly the same as they were in the 1930's. They've gotten better (no surprise) but they are basically the same magnet with a diaphragm design. Same with mics.
The latest thing in mics in MEMS, but they are still kinda primitive. Also, there is work being done with piezo film sheets as speakers.
Back then we thought by 2010 that we'd be living on the Moon and would have been to Mars several times. If you told someone that we'd go to the Moon for the last time in the early 70's and then not again for 40 years or more people would have been shocked.
The amount of "futuristic" stuff in 2010 is very small compared to what everybody expected.
That's not an improvement, that's a convenience. An improvement would be if the sound was better than it was 50 years ago. It isn't, the sound is worse, not better.
Here's what I meant: where's the improvement that I can hear? You can't, because digital has not caught up to where analog was. It will, but so far it's de-evolution. It's cheaper, you can do it in your bedroom, you can copy tracks and make them play backwards, but "improvement in audio"? Not to my ears.
...Eventually (digital) will surpass analog, because it will end up being analog...