#56 in a series of articles about the technology behind Bang & Olufsen loudspeakers
This book was released some months ago as part of the 100 year anniversary of loudspeaker development in Denmark. There are a number of good articles in there, including a historical article on the importance of loudspeaker directivity at Bang & Olufsen.
Hmmm… It seems that the people who came up with this idea have never read the classic first example in the definitions of a “perverse incentive“.
There’s one verse of “Sweet Home Alabama” that says
“Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they’ve been known to pick a song or two”.
If you watch this movie to the end, you’ll find out what that means.
Jimi Hendrix lived at #23 (the white house) and Handel lived at #25 (next door).
Apart from that, nothing…
Actually, according to this article, Hendrix chose the apartment (at least partly) due to the fact that Handle lived next-door… Note that the article also mentions the expensive bit of kit in the flat…
What’s impressive is that the Babylonians were more mathematically advanced than we thought. The odd thing is that the reason they developed the math was suspiciously like that used by the Grebulons…
Apparently an X-Ray can be used as an LP…
and
“I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the result of this evening’s experiments: astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record for ever.”
– Sir Arthur Sullivan to Thomas Edison on his invention of the phonograph cylinder.
The speech starts at around 2:06
