Gramophone

The right sound system can bring your music and movies to life and completely change the atmosphere of your home. Gramophone has the expertise to create the perfect home audio solution for your space. Whether your idea for a home music system includes a turntable and speakers or a whole-home music system, we’ve got the perfect solution. When you visit one of our showrooms, our team will give you expert advice and solutions tailored to your individual needs. • Call us at showroom locations • Shop SKY by Gramophone WHOLE-HOME AUDIO Our home audio solutions can allow you to go from room to room without missing a second of your favorite song. We’ll help you choose the right speakers for your space to create an integrated ecosystem within your home. Easily connect your system to your devices so that you can set the mood from wherever you are. TURNTABLES & VINYL We have seen a massive resurgence in the vinyl industry in the past few years. More and more artists are releasing their records on vinyl and turntables are coming back. Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been on the vinyl train for years, Gramophone has the turntable that’s right for you.

• • by Last updated: October 27, 2022. If you're like me, you probably get most—if not all—your music online. You might have a few record players (also known as turntables and, historically, as phonographs and gramophones), are still widely used by club DJs and music aficionados who swear the music they make is finer and more subtle. After decades in decline, record players have enjoyed a spectacular renaissance over the last few years—and, whether they sound better or not, they can certainly teach us interesting things about Photo: Get in the groove! The basic concept of record players was (and is) to run a needle through a spiral groove in a piece of spinning plastic, creating mechanical vibrations and turning them back into sound. Look closely at this photo and you'll see both the needle (mid-right) and the grooves (bottom left). Contents • • • • • • • • How modern gadgets store musical sounds Modern music players are essentially specialized Hard drives read and record information using Okay, so far so good. Now imagine you're Thomas Edison back in the 19th century. You want to record and play back sounds but you have no fancy electrical or magnetic gadgets at your disposal. Remember this is long before computers, laser beams, and compact discs have been invented... and it's even before homes have Photo: How do you make an alien die of laughter? In the mid-1970s, when LP records were still considered the height of musical technology, the Voyager spacecraft blasted into ...

In …an invention he called the gramophone. Much significant progress in recording and reproduction techniques was made during the first half of the 20th century, with the development of high-quality electromechanical transducers and linear electronic circuits. The most important improvement on the standard phonograph record in the second half of the…

The first records were made of glass. They were then made using zinc and eventually plastic. A spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record. To play sounds and music, the record was rotated on the gramophone. The "arm" of the gramophone held a needle that read the grooves in the record by vibration and transmitted the information to the gramophone speaker. The Gramophone Company Berliner founded "The Gramophone Company" to mass manufacture his sound disks (records) as well as the gramophone that played them. To help promote his gramophone system, Berliner did a couple of things. First, he persuaded popular artists to record their music using his system. Two famous artists who signed early on with Berliner's company were Enrico Caruso and Dame Nellie Melba. The second smart marketing move Berliner made came in 1908 when he used Francis Barraud's painting of "His Master's Voice"as his company's official Berliner later sold the licensing rights to his patent for the gramophone and method of making records to the Victor Talking Machine Company (RCA), which later made the gramophone a successful product in the United States. Meanwhile, Berliner continued doing business in other countries. He founded the Berliner Gram-o-phone Company in Canada, the Deutsche Grammophon in Germany and the U.K based Gramophone Co., Ltd. Bellis, Mary. "Emile Berliner and the History of the Gramophone." ThoughtCo, Feb. 16, 2021, thoughtco.com/emile-berliner-history-of-the-gram...

The gramophone is a record player that you’ve probably seen – the one with the horn on the side. Even if you’ve never seen one up close and personal, you know exactly what it is. They were the first devices invented to play back music and other forms of sound. Before we jump into the history, here’s a quick video showing a gramophone that is still functional playing an old record, so you get the idea, even if you have no idea what I’m rattling on about up until now. What is a Gramophone? The gramophone, or phonograph, is a device that records and plays sound. While we’ll be touching on the exact nature of the gramophone, it makes sense for us to talk about the disc phonograph record, which is a vinyl record as we know it today. These two concepts go hand in hand. The waveforms of sound were impressed onto a wax cylinder when inventors were first experimenting with the device. The device was handcranked and produced a sound that wasn’t suitable for listening at all. It was awkward and cringe-inducing. Musicians would find that they had to record music continuously because the wax cylinder couldn’t hold the tone. The cylinders used were very bulky, too. As it was improved upon, the gramophone would record and play sound on discs made of tin and, finally, other materials. It wasn’t until the gramophone used flat disks that it became more popular and successful. Parts of the Gramophone Disks The disks brought the gramophone to life around 1892. They measured between 5 and 10 i...