MiTT
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Yesterday when I was returning home from a business trip to San Francisco I came upon an exhibit in the terminal (Terminal 3 I think - the one United fly's out of) called "The History of Audio". I had some time to kill so I bought a big cup of Peet's coffee and checked it out. There was some stuff relating to advances in loudspeaker design - horns, acoustic suspension etc. Nothing on electrostatic speakers though.
Not a whole lot of stuff pertaining to the high end audio scene, although they did have a Meridian G series Pre/Pro in one display. I was kind of floored in one display where they mentioned that the high watermark for the analog LP was in the late 70's, but that they had been obsoleted by the introduction of the CD. Most of us vinyl junkies would argue that it was in the late 50's to early 60's, or possibly even now - and by the way, they aren't obsolete.
Lot's of stuff pertaining to studio recording and Film recording. There was a huge Ampex recording console with what looked like 2" tape on it. Probably 60% of the displays had some sort of Dolby equipment in them - not suprising since Dolby Labs is right there in the city.
At any rate, if you're flying out of SFO it's worth a casual browse...
Not a whole lot of stuff pertaining to the high end audio scene, although they did have a Meridian G series Pre/Pro in one display. I was kind of floored in one display where they mentioned that the high watermark for the analog LP was in the late 70's, but that they had been obsoleted by the introduction of the CD. Most of us vinyl junkies would argue that it was in the late 50's to early 60's, or possibly even now - and by the way, they aren't obsolete.
Lot's of stuff pertaining to studio recording and Film recording. There was a huge Ampex recording console with what looked like 2" tape on it. Probably 60% of the displays had some sort of Dolby equipment in them - not suprising since Dolby Labs is right there in the city.
At any rate, if you're flying out of SFO it's worth a casual browse...