This room displays devices from both the declining phase of the analogue recording era as well as those that belong in the new digital part of phonographic history. The devices on display include a music stereo centre: a radio-tape recorder-player of the Danish company BANG&OLUFSEN. This system is known under two different names: as BeoSound Century in Europe and as BeoSound 2000 in North America. It was produced in 1993-2004 in a few models and colour versions. It combined an excellent efficiency level and ease of use. BeoSound Century received the IP award from the Danish Design Centre in 1994. The 1990s saw an accelerated departure from analogue forms of sound recording and reproduction towards the intensively developing digital technology. The aforementioned devices and sound carriers, i.e., the phonograph with a metal shaft covered with tin foil or wax, the gramophone and records initially made of ebonite, then shellac and finally vinyl, as well as various types of tape recorders, became history. However, it is a living history, especially when it comes to the gramophone, which still has its ‘followers’ and enthusiasts. Our last room is the listening room where we one can return to vinyl records and turntables and listen to recordings from our collection.
1990s, Małopolskie Centre for the Sound and the Word
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