Then came the move forward towards magnetic recording on tapes on reels, cartridges or cassettes that was developed. The phenomenon that was to become an omnipresent commodity known as the transistor radio that was about to homogenized world music. British Decca Record Company played quite an influential role in the improvisation of phonographic recording after World War II. Decca's full frequency range recording (ffrr) had become internationally accredited, plus the frequency range of discs had been dramatically extended. Ernest Ansermet's recording of Stravinsky's Petrushka was instrumental in the new development, which was to wake up the susceptible ears of many record collectors in 1946 to the future of high fidelity, or the hi-fi, potential of the phonograph records. With Decca’s -- ffrr -- gaining popularity on a worldwide scale, Decca gain control of the market place. Two further improvements to phonographic recording production came about in the late 1940s: the magnetic recording and the first long-playing (LP) record. The 1950’s saw the British Decca Recording Company really getting to grips in the musical development field as regards to sound reproduction on vinyl record discs. later on in the 1950’s saw the British Decca Recording Company again came up trumps in influencing the serious music lover of the melodious competence that could be derived from their innovation of the stereophonic sounds on discs. Ah yes! The blessed, wonderful and indigenous sounds of the stereophonic on vinyl, but a better kind of sound has now surface on the the record buying public. New technology has brought about the cinema surround sound in the where the surround system can consist of 5 speakers and even 7 speakers wit an amplified woofer. |
