Music News - The CD Goes Platinum
03 November 2002 - 0 Comments
After an uncertain start, the CD has reached its Platinum anniversary - the CD is 20 years old.
It was in the northern autumn of 1982 that Philips and Sony put out the first players and CDs into shops in Europe and Japan. The US followed in early 1983 and Australia a few months later.
Gramophone, the inflential English record review magazine, had been keeping an eye on the development of the new laser-based digital technology, which promised to democratise high-fidelity sound reproduction. The magazine's technical experts and record reviewers attended briefings and demonstrations of the work in progress and came back excited by what they heard. A favourite expression of the reviewers - particularly during the transition period, when they were considering both vinyl LP and CD versions of the same recordings was "It was as though a veil had been lifted from the music" or, in the worlds of the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan "Everything else is gaslight".
At one demonstration they listened to a blind side-by-side playback of music from the studio master tape on one system and from a domestic player with CD on the other. They said they could not pick the difference.
More history on the CD can be found by following the link below:
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