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Not a musician, but definitely a man who contributed much to our enjoyment of music. R.I.P. Ray Dolby.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Dolby.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Dolby.html
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Not to my mind he was a guy who invented some filters and filters are the death of music.slinger wrote:Not a musician, but definitely a man who contributed much to our enjoyment of music. R.I.P. Ray Dolby.
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Would you rather have suffered the tape-hiss from those crap old seventies ferrous cassette tapes?Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote:Not to my mind he was a guy who invented filters and filters are the death of music.slinger wrote:Not a musician, but definitely a man who contributed much to our enjoyment of music. R.I.P. Ray Dolby.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Dolby.html
He and his company did a lot more than invent Dolby A, B and C though, up to and including Dolby TrueHD which is a lossless 24-bit, 96 kHz codec used on todays Blu-ray discs and Dolby Atmos, a very high-end solution for audio reproduction in cinemas. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording, back when he worked for Ampex.
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Yes I would. I would prefer music with noise any day, PLUS it was just politics. If the expand / contract filter (compressor / expander) route is the one you want to take then DBX was far less musically offensive. Dolby was a corporation which took control of an industry, first studios and then cinema, it was about impressing and making money nothing else.
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Well, not a loss to anyone else but a big loss to me is big Bob. He assisted with many hours of my listening pleasure, gutted.
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Sad to say Jackie Lomax passed away this week. He could have been so much more famous. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Lomax.html
This is him with George Harrison, Paul McCartney Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton...
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XY1FIcOZg[/BBvideo]
This is him with George Harrison, Paul McCartney Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton...
[BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XY1FIcOZg[/BBvideo]
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