![]() ![]() For users of recording technologies, this was a period of profound technological change in which emerging digital tools afforded opportunies for new ways of working. Although one cannot assume that all companies operate in the same way as Soundstream, its experiences in the sound recording and music industries reveal a great deal about the introduction of new technologies generally. 2 Despite increasing competition from larger companies, and strong resistance from some areas of the ‘audiophile’ community, Soundstream played an important role in the developing standards of digital recording, editing and mastering during this period and their influence can still be observed today. ![]() ![]() Soundstream, incorporated in 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah, was the first commercial digital audio recording company in the United States. 1 This article takes the form of a case study, examining the introduction and development of commercial digital recording technologies in the United States between 1975-1983, through the experiences of an early innovator in the field. During the 1970s, designers of emerging digital recording technologies collaborated with sound engineers, producers and artists, helping to establish standards for the capture, editing, playback and storage of digital audio paradigms that would come to govern much of modern recording. Digital audio recording is now ubiquitous, inexpensive, and available to anyone with access to a computer and a basic audio interface. Developments in digital technologies during the last 35 years have had arguably the most profound effect on the sound recording and music industries since the invention of the phonograph record. ![]()
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