[geoff]

On 3/02/2015 11:57 p.m., Scott Dorsey wrote:


Edison did blind demonstrations at which members of the general public
could not tell the difference between a live singer and cylinder playback.
Today's unsophisticated audiences are more sophisticated than that, but
it's a lot easier to do with a singer than a harpsichord.
--scott



In that case it was more a case of the 'general public' simply being
astounded at music coming from a machine than the sound quality of each.

geoff