Question: What became the predecessor to the RIAA curve?
Answer: New Orthophonic curve

Question: Who developed the New Orthophonic curve?
Answer: RCA Victor

Question: Whom wrote the publication outlining the New Orthophonic curve?
Answer: R.C. Moyer

Question: What was the quality of sound recordings made with horns at the end of the acoustic era?
Answer: many fine examples

Question: What were issues facing play back and recording mechanics?
Answer: acoustic limitations

Question: Why do photos show take on horns?
Answer: help mute these resonances

Question: What was the cause of delicate and fine sound loss?
Answer: took a lot of sound energy

Question: How would a record recorded with a horn sound played through modern equipment?
Answer: like it was recorded through a horn

Question: What technique offered realistic sounds during playback?
Answer: Western Electric licensed recording method

Question: At at time was radio gaining popularity?
Answer: 1925

Question: What type of microphones were losing popularity in the 1920s?
Answer: carbon microphones used,

Question: What benefit did the use of the Wente style condenser microphone offer?
Answer: brilliant midrange

Question: What was a benefit of early radio recordings?
Answer: microphones and amplifiers

Question: What is one example of an acoustic phonograph on which one would listen to electric recordings?
Answer: Victor Orthophonic phonograph

Question: What allowed better sounds inside the cabinet of the orthoponic phonograph?
Answer: folded horn with an exponential taper

Question: What adjustments were made to the orthophonic  to accommodate electric recordings?
Answer: mechanical pickup head was redesigned with lower resonance than the traditional mica type

Question: Was it common to hear electric recordings on phonographs?
Answer: not unusual

Question: How similar was the sound of a orthodontic  record to a radio?
Answer: sounded like

Question: What are two examples of high quality microphones?
Answer: moving coil microphone was introduced around 1930 and the velocity or ribbon microphone

Question: What was used to dampen resonances in recordings?
Answer: Magnetic pickups

Question: When would you have first found the moving coil microphone?
Answer: around 1930

Question: What was a more economical option to magnetic pickups?
Answer: Crystal pickups

Question: In what years would you find electronic recordings played electronically?
Answer: 1930s and 1940s

Question: What was a benefit of the use of magnetic pickup cartridge?
Answer: high quality cuts

Question: In what era could you find good quality recordings and playbacks at home?
Answer: 1940s

Question: What was a unique feature of the Capeart radio phonographs?
Answer: large diameter electrodynamic loudspeakers

Question: How similar were live and recorded versions?
Answer: harder to tell the difference

Question: When was the Western Electric System introduced?
Answer: early 1930s

Question: What two companies worked together to develop the Western Electric System?
Answer: Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric

Question: What system was used by Warner Brothers?
Answer: Western Electric system

Question: What speed was used in the Western Electric System?
Answer: 33 1⁄3 rpm

Question: What was the Western Electric System believed to do?
Answer: improve the overall quality

Question: What was a benefit of vertical groove cuts?
Answer: longer playback time

Question: What could be avoided by using vertical groove cuts?
Answer: inner groove distortion

Question: How was the moving coil microphone unique to the Wente type?
Answer: didn't require electronics installed in the microphone housing

Question: How was sound improved using the moving coil microphone?
Answer: override noise in playback

Question: How was wax used to improve recordings?
Answer: avoiding the microscopic irregularities

Question: What were used to make vinyl pressings?
Answer: master cuts

Question: What were the top licensees of the Western Electric system in the 1930s?
Answer: World Broadcasting System and Associated Music Publishers

Question: Who was responsible for 2/3 of all recordings in the 1930s?
Answer: World Broadcasting System and Associated Music Publishers

Question: How was gold spluttering used in vinyl creation?
Answer: cuts that were electroplated in vacuo by means of gold sputtering

Question: When was the business booming for do it yourself sound fanatics?
Answer: 1949

Question: What kind of recordings worked best for pop music?
Answer: 45 rpm

Question: What was used for longer recordings?
Answer: LP record

Question: What opened doors for long recordings?
Answer: The complete technical disclosure of the Columbia LP by Peter C. Goldmark, Rene' Snepvangers and William S. Bachman

Question: What aided in records sales in the 1950s?
Answer: Radio listeners heard recordings broadcast

Question: What is generally the lowest sound a human can hear?
Answer: 20 Hz

Question: What is believed to better offer sounds of higher frequencies, compact discs or records?
Answer: vinyl records

Question: What is the higher end of typical human hearing?
Answer: 20,000 Hz

Question: Does the hearing range of the human vary?
Answer: The upper and lower frequency limits of human hearing vary per person

Question: Who would engrave the master disc of a vinyl record?
Answer: record cutter

Question: What was used in first recordings of vinyl records?
Answer: soft wax

Question: What was used in final recordings of vinyl records?
Answer: harder lacquer

Question: After the 1950s  what was a typical recording process?
Answer: first recorded on audio tape, which could then be processed and/or edited, and then dubbed on to the master disc

Question: Where were sound recordings originally made to?
Answer: master disc

Question: Should alcohol be used to clean gramophone recordings?
Answer: alcohol should only be used on PVC or optical media

Question: Is gramophone equipment readily available?
Answer: manufactured only in small quantities

Question: What is the recommendation of gramophone recordings to preserve integrity?
Answer: transferring them onto other media

Question: What is a drawback of gramophone use?
Answer: gradual degradation

Question: How are gramophones best stored?
Answer: on edge

Question: Is it difficult to transfer recording from historic interest to newer technologies?
Answer: Anyone can do this

Question: What would offer the highest quality transfers of historic interest?
Answer: professional archivists

Question: What would a hobbiest need to transfer historic recordings to digital formats?
Answer: standard record player with a suitable pickup, a phono-preamp (pre-amplifier) and a typical personal computer

Question: Is an original destroyed when transferred to digital format?
Answer: without any further damage to the source recording

Question: What is one benefit of transferring an older format to a newer format?
Answer: manipulated to remove analog flaws

Question: What was a major cause of declined vinyl sales?
Answer: major label distributors restricted their return policies

Question: Which allows for more profits, vinyl or compact discs?
Answer: CDs, which were more profitable for the record companies

Question: When did vinyl record sales decline?
Answer: between 1988 and 1991

Question: When did compact disc popularity take hold?
Answer: 1988

Question: When were groove recordings developed?
Answer: final quarter of the 19th century,

Question: Are records generally out of print as of date?
Answer: Vinyl records continue to be manufactured and sold today

Question: Are albums ever reproduced?
Answer: Many popular new albums are given releases

Question: What types of vinyl hold the most popularity?
Answer: Old records and out-of-print recordings

Question: Does vinyl record maintain any popularity?
Answer: records still have enthusiastic supporters