[78-L] Acoustic v. radio

[ola anderstedt]

Bull shit !


Ola Anderstedt
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13 januari 2016 17:09:10 +01:00, skrev Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com.invalid>:

> 
> On 1/13/2016 8:20 AM, Elizabeth McLeod wrote:
> 
> > The carbon microphones of the twenties had a thin sound, with fair midrange,
> > comparatively little bass, and a noticeable hiss. Listening to a broadcast
> > originating from such a microphone on a regenerative receiver, thru
> > high-impedance metal-diaphragm headphones, was not too far removed from the
> > sound quality you'd get on a telphone. A horn speaker used the same type of
> > receiver element as the headphones, and introduced horn resonances to the
> > mix.
> > But I have read newspaper and magazine articles critical of female radio
> announcers and female vocalists (especially sopranos), because allegedly
> the microphone distorted their voice. Any truth to that, or was it just
> a reflection of cultural prejudice against female voices?
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