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In the Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™
Post Subject: "I think that high end was born...in the 60's" - wrong again.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/9/2006
 Antonio J. wrote: |
| I think that high end was born as a marketing strategy in the US to fight the market invasion from Japan in the 60's |
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Although it is not on the subject but still….
You are incorrect. The High End was borning in the mid of 30s by the efforts of Bell Labs, BASF, AEG and Telefunken. The Marketing concept of High End was conceived in 1945-46 when US army brought home the WW2 trophys – the examples of the Telefunken-made AC-biased Magnetophones. After hearing that sound and the Magnetophones’ capacities the Ampex copied the Magnetophones design and the Telefunken's ideas and made the first US's High End recordings. Sometimes in 1946-47 NBC broadcasted the Bing Crosby recordings made on the Telefunken-Ampex mashines and NBC had stunning success. Thousands and thousands people called NBC claming that they were mislead and it was not the recordings but a live Crosby’s broadcast. The consent that an "extended quality" might open new opportunities to sell product was born. BTW, I have those Crosby’s recordings and they are stunning…. The picture below is the original machine that was brought from the Germany to US and that was dissected by Ampex.
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