[William Sommerwerck]

"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
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"William Sommerwerck" writes:

I'll repeat what I said before... Progress in sound recording and
reproduction
has come about largely because of scientists and engineers who wanted that
progress -- not because the public desired it.

argument about wideband versus narrowband snipped

It took visionaries, thinking outside the box of the day, to devise an
experiment that could show what was going on. (This might have been
Avery Fisher wanting to sell higher fidelity audio equipment who did this.)

It was Harry F Olson, at RCA, who performed the experiment you describe.

Listeners had shown an overwhelming preference for narrowband phono
reproduction. Olson guessed that this was because wideband recording and
playback suffered from unacceptable levels of noise and distortion. His test
showed that people did prefer wideband sound. He used to be called "the man
who save high fidelity".