February, 2014
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Why Music Sales are Down
There’s a good reason why you might not enjoy listening to music as much as you used to: It’s gotten too loud. All music has “dynamic range,” variations in volume between the loud parts and the soft parts. People sing and play at different volumes. Individual notes have an initialRead More…
My Experiences With Vinyl Media
As far as my experiences with vinyl records are concerned, it is hard to know where to begin, but all of those experiences were memorable. At 59, I am old enough (and hopefully wise enough) to understand that nostalgia and memories from one’s youth tend to positively bias your feelingsRead More…
Vinyl as New Media
Historians often find themselves going back and back and back. Many a recovering graduate student can relate: a story that seemed to begin at one moment in time inevitably has roots that branch and stretch ever deeper into the past. A dissertation on consumer credit in the 1930s somehow becomesRead More…