“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
Jeff says:
Yes, true, but it’s analog so it’s much higher def than CD!
geoff says:
Good point… :-)