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From The Audio Critic, Issue No. 24, Spring 1997.
Two-channel stereo is as dead as the LP.
Excerpt:
"Multichannel is the next big thing. It provides a major step up in playback performance and realism. The first programs will come from the movie people, as always. They dragged us into stereo in the '50s, matrix surround in the '80s, and are now dragging us into discrete multi-channel with DTS and Dolby Digital. The established recording industry can be expected to drag their feet. Most of the several thousand extant recording studios are already at capacity making two-channel recordings, jingles, and commercials. They will see no reason to change anything until the multichannel recordings being made on new digital workstations steal enough of their business to create excess capacity. When that juncture is reached, you will see a wholesale changeout.
How long will that take? Well, in 1984 we were predicting that CD would surpass LP in sales in a little over 10 years...about 1995. How long did it really take? Maybe five! I would say that by 2005 two-channel recording will be history. We will be having stereo "revivals" where the excess production capacity of fully amortized plants will have folks squeezing out the last few dollars from a dead technology, as they are now with tubes and LPs."
The author?
Tom Nousaine.
Who?
Exactly.
P.S. Access the Archives here:
http://biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic_down.htm
From The Audio Critic, Issue No. 24, Spring 1997.
Two-channel stereo is as dead as the LP.
Excerpt:
"Multichannel is the next big thing. It provides a major step up in playback performance and realism. The first programs will come from the movie people, as always. They dragged us into stereo in the '50s, matrix surround in the '80s, and are now dragging us into discrete multi-channel with DTS and Dolby Digital. The established recording industry can be expected to drag their feet. Most of the several thousand extant recording studios are already at capacity making two-channel recordings, jingles, and commercials. They will see no reason to change anything until the multichannel recordings being made on new digital workstations steal enough of their business to create excess capacity. When that juncture is reached, you will see a wholesale changeout.
How long will that take? Well, in 1984 we were predicting that CD would surpass LP in sales in a little over 10 years...about 1995. How long did it really take? Maybe five! I would say that by 2005 two-channel recording will be history. We will be having stereo "revivals" where the excess production capacity of fully amortized plants will have folks squeezing out the last few dollars from a dead technology, as they are now with tubes and LPs."
The author?
Tom Nousaine.
Who?
Exactly.
P.S. Access the Archives here:
http://biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic_down.htm
