Music media formats have changed a lot 'since the first records released on the mass market many decades ago were, however, is the treasure now, MP3 audio, really the best? In this article we will see the various formats and standards as they have stood the test of time.
It all started with phonograph records, the great slabs of shellac were produced. They ran at a speed of 78 revolutions per minute and took a phonograph player with a game heavy in AugustRecord. The records sounded really bad and will break easily, no matter how careful you were. The advent of the record has changed everything. Records are now easier, better, played, and later, when they were disclosed in stereo, it seemed that would never be anything better for the consumer, both listening to music in their homes. The 33-1/3 rpm vinyl ruled for decades, during the 'seventy sixties and eighties.
Eight-track tapes, reel tapes, and other compactTape formats trying to tear the record as the king himself, but could never be with the loyalty of a record on a good sound system. However, the tape had to offer a big advantage. It was small, and you could run a tape almost anywhere. Also, they were writable, so it was easy to customize your "album", your favorite titles. The cassettes were favored by teenagers in the second half of the eighties, but still have maintained records of the place as the preferred format.
Around the middle offrom the late '80s, the Compact Disc has become affordable for the masses, and in 1990, CDs had established its place as the preferred format was adopted. Vinyl sales outstanding and close several factories to press well. The CD offers a relatively good sound, no matter which system is on it, because he played an all-digital media. An analog dynamics meant that if a record has not provided a recording or reproducing equipment of half-decent, so it could be really bad.
Boxes as soon as he heardDeath knell, and applies to my life in the urban market, first of all set out on a large scale. The CD was the king of sizes from 1990 until about 2002, was hired as a compact digital formats.
The MP3, a compressed audio file, everything changed. Begun as a way to pirate music on the Internet with great sound, prevailed then as a valid format for sale and, finally, took over in 2003 online sales of sales of MP3 CDs. Mobile devices, such asBuy the iPod has given this change more volatile and record companies scrambled to get a piece of the action as a consumer, not an entire album had a popular success, they can buy a song for about 99 cents.
The problem with these digital media formats, the sound quality. MP3, no matter how well played can sound flat and sterile compared to the warm analog sound of a vinyl record of good equipment. The fans have kept the format vinyl for years, andThe proof is in the sales figures. While CD sales continue to decline, sales of vinyl have increased from year to year. Used record stores and specialty shops thrive, while the CD out of the market chains. The MP3 format, and digital still rules, but not necessarily the best, and consumers certainly recognizes this.
