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Re: Obits
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:22 pm
by jammy395
Yes i second that Slinger "Big George" was a quite a character and fine musician...........RIP.
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:04 am
by slinger
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
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:28 am
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
Not to my mind he was a guy who invented some filters and filters are the death of music.
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:43 am
by slinger
Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote:
Not to my mind he was a guy who invented filters and filters are the death of music.
Would you rather have suffered the tape-hiss from those crap old seventies ferrous cassette tapes?
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.
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:55 am
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
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.
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:45 am
by zebbo
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.
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:03 am
by jammy395
Sorry for yer loss Zebbo - Pet's do indeed become part of the family.
Hopefully you will get another assistant come time.
Re: Obits
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:33 pm
by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
He had a lovely face Zebbo - remember the good times.
Re: Obits
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 4:14 pm
by slinger
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...
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Re: Obits
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:24 pm
by terrybooth
One of the original Apple singles, if I remember right - "Sour Milk Sea"