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Highway Hi-Fi: the world's first stereo vinyl car from Chrysler
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What do George Harrison of «The Beatles», boxing legend Muhammad Ali and Chrysler cars? Answer - turntable Highway Hi-Fi, which was established by Chrysler in some models of the cars of 60 years ago. He first appeared in 1956 and it was something special for those times. an innovative device for its time, a high-tech, plus the music, which is so necessary to motorists on the road. It seemed, Highway Hi-Fi is simply doomed to success.
Average car radio - is the need to put up with the musical tastes of the leading radio station, which is the car for many tens of kilometers, and which does not ask to put your favorite song from the car, where there are no fixed or cellular telephone. A Highway Hi-Fi lets you listen to just the music that you like. As many as one and a half hours of your favorite music - it is twice more than that of a standard vinyl record of the time! Yes, for the Highway Hi-Fi released vinyl discs native format. The trick was simple - Disc playback speed was reduced to 16 by the manufacturer, 66 revolutions per minute. This is much less than that of a conventional turntable.
Technological wonder no more and no less. Unfortunately, something went wrong, and the Highway Hi-Fi removed from production only a year after the release of its market. What happened? Specifically, the system designer Peter Goldmark (Peter Goldmark) tried their best. He created LPs, adding a new standard to the existing. Producing records for the player, too, was easy - no technological problems were not. The delivery of such a player (or rather, the car - a separate system is not sold) consisted of six plates. But where to get the other plate after listen to this? In this wing and the main problem.
She was not in the technology and not the quality of music playback, and with the popularity and prevalence of the standard bearers. A similar problem faced by company Sony, which developed the Betamax standard 25 years after entering the market Highway Hi-Fi. To develop the new standard is not enough - you need to yet, for someone used it. In the case of Betamax problem was that Sony just could not agree with the leading content providers - the studio refused to work with the new standard. As a result, I won the VHS standard, which has become almost the only one on the market. True, too, used the Betamax, and tapes made of this standard for a long time, but do not just individually. Neither of which mass production and the speech was not.
Regarding Highway Hi-Fi, practically no competitors in this format. It would seem that you can grow and develop. But in fact, a specific format giving the user the player is not much choice. Musical tastes of motorists are very different, and the choice of music with the Highway Hi-Fi was minimal. Lovers of good music just could not bring their own plate to the car and put your favorite music. It was necessary to wait until you see the corresponding plate - and it is, as they say, a long story. Plus, players Highway Hi-Fi equipped with only the Chrysler cars, that is, the number of users player with support for the new standard was so scanty that the recording studio just did not make sense to produce a new type of plate - profit from this business was zero. In other words, motorists simply could not find a new record specific format. And why do we need the player without plates?
Plus, players have been proprietary, were installed at the factory. If something broke - fix alone it was difficult.
But now competitors tightened
After a couple of years after the Highway Hi-Fi removed from production, the market of vinyl car players came Recording Corporation of America. It suggested player listening standard plates with a speed of 45 rpm. It seemed that the problem was solved and turntables gradually become popular. But no - just a year after the release of these players withdrew from the production. The problem here was that the 45-rpm discs could get everywhere. The 7-inch plate is now. But the duration of the most musical composition - only 2-4 minutes. What does it mean? Every 2-4 minutes the driver (while in the car on the move) had one hand to rearrange pickup. It was uncomfortable and dangerous. However, the safety of the drivers then worry not say that very strongly. While the health and safety of people has received little attention. Needless to say, even the teacher could smoke in school, smoking in buses, cars did not have head restraints in many models of car seats - and nobody said anything. But the problem was also in the reliability of the mechanics of these players.
The idea is that the vinyl car players was the system, hold the needle on the record. This was necessary in order to play music even when the car is bouncing on road irregularities. It used a special controlled-hour needle holder arm that leveled shocks and variations in driving. The needle was kept, but shaking it slightly damaged the plate itself, although it has been provided with a counterweight. The more people traveled by car, listening to the same record - the faster the recording fails. In systems of the RCA, RAC, and Allstate plate protection was not so reliable as at Highway Hi-Fi from Chrysler.
For a while, these devices still held out in the market - until about the end of the 60s. They are mounted in their cars, some celebrities, including George Harrison, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Hendrix. But in the 70 vinyl automotive players in any format simply disappeared. However, not all countries. Comediscos: In Spain, private car turntable was established in 1968. He has worked with standard plates, operates at a speed of 45 rev / min. This system quickly became popular - but only in Spain and Italy. The popularity of the system was kept up until the mid 70-ies of the last century. His player developed and the company Philips, where such a system has been slotted disc loading. However, a special distribution of such player is not received. By the way, in 2011, Seat has announced the intention to create a vinyl car player for music lovers, although ideas on the matter, too, does not matter.
Stationary modern turntable
After some time, there were already other car audio - reels, cassette, which did not have that disadvantage, which was inherent in the vinyl audio systems - bouncing needle. But that's another story.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/277986/
What do George Harrison of «The Beatles», boxing legend Muhammad Ali and Chrysler cars? Answer - turntable Highway Hi-Fi, which was established by Chrysler in some models of the cars of 60 years ago. He first appeared in 1956 and it was something special for those times. an innovative device for its time, a high-tech, plus the music, which is so necessary to motorists on the road. It seemed, Highway Hi-Fi is simply doomed to success.
Average car radio - is the need to put up with the musical tastes of the leading radio station, which is the car for many tens of kilometers, and which does not ask to put your favorite song from the car, where there are no fixed or cellular telephone. A Highway Hi-Fi lets you listen to just the music that you like. As many as one and a half hours of your favorite music - it is twice more than that of a standard vinyl record of the time! Yes, for the Highway Hi-Fi released vinyl discs native format. The trick was simple - Disc playback speed was reduced to 16 by the manufacturer, 66 revolutions per minute. This is much less than that of a conventional turntable.
Technological wonder no more and no less. Unfortunately, something went wrong, and the Highway Hi-Fi removed from production only a year after the release of its market. What happened? Specifically, the system designer Peter Goldmark (Peter Goldmark) tried their best. He created LPs, adding a new standard to the existing. Producing records for the player, too, was easy - no technological problems were not. The delivery of such a player (or rather, the car - a separate system is not sold) consisted of six plates. But where to get the other plate after listen to this? In this wing and the main problem.
She was not in the technology and not the quality of music playback, and with the popularity and prevalence of the standard bearers. A similar problem faced by company Sony, which developed the Betamax standard 25 years after entering the market Highway Hi-Fi. To develop the new standard is not enough - you need to yet, for someone used it. In the case of Betamax problem was that Sony just could not agree with the leading content providers - the studio refused to work with the new standard. As a result, I won the VHS standard, which has become almost the only one on the market. True, too, used the Betamax, and tapes made of this standard for a long time, but do not just individually. Neither of which mass production and the speech was not.
Regarding Highway Hi-Fi, practically no competitors in this format. It would seem that you can grow and develop. But in fact, a specific format giving the user the player is not much choice. Musical tastes of motorists are very different, and the choice of music with the Highway Hi-Fi was minimal. Lovers of good music just could not bring their own plate to the car and put your favorite music. It was necessary to wait until you see the corresponding plate - and it is, as they say, a long story. Plus, players Highway Hi-Fi equipped with only the Chrysler cars, that is, the number of users player with support for the new standard was so scanty that the recording studio just did not make sense to produce a new type of plate - profit from this business was zero. In other words, motorists simply could not find a new record specific format. And why do we need the player without plates?
Plus, players have been proprietary, were installed at the factory. If something broke - fix alone it was difficult.
But now competitors tightened
After a couple of years after the Highway Hi-Fi removed from production, the market of vinyl car players came Recording Corporation of America. It suggested player listening standard plates with a speed of 45 rpm. It seemed that the problem was solved and turntables gradually become popular. But no - just a year after the release of these players withdrew from the production. The problem here was that the 45-rpm discs could get everywhere. The 7-inch plate is now. But the duration of the most musical composition - only 2-4 minutes. What does it mean? Every 2-4 minutes the driver (while in the car on the move) had one hand to rearrange pickup. It was uncomfortable and dangerous. However, the safety of the drivers then worry not say that very strongly. While the health and safety of people has received little attention. Needless to say, even the teacher could smoke in school, smoking in buses, cars did not have head restraints in many models of car seats - and nobody said anything. But the problem was also in the reliability of the mechanics of these players.
The idea is that the vinyl car players was the system, hold the needle on the record. This was necessary in order to play music even when the car is bouncing on road irregularities. It used a special controlled-hour needle holder arm that leveled shocks and variations in driving. The needle was kept, but shaking it slightly damaged the plate itself, although it has been provided with a counterweight. The more people traveled by car, listening to the same record - the faster the recording fails. In systems of the RCA, RAC, and Allstate plate protection was not so reliable as at Highway Hi-Fi from Chrysler.
For a while, these devices still held out in the market - until about the end of the 60s. They are mounted in their cars, some celebrities, including George Harrison, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Hendrix. But in the 70 vinyl automotive players in any format simply disappeared. However, not all countries. Comediscos: In Spain, private car turntable was established in 1968. He has worked with standard plates, operates at a speed of 45 rev / min. This system quickly became popular - but only in Spain and Italy. The popularity of the system was kept up until the mid 70-ies of the last century. His player developed and the company Philips, where such a system has been slotted disc loading. However, a special distribution of such player is not received. By the way, in 2011, Seat has announced the intention to create a vinyl car player for music lovers, although ideas on the matter, too, does not matter.
Stationary modern turntable
After some time, there were already other car audio - reels, cassette, which did not have that disadvantage, which was inherent in the vinyl audio systems - bouncing needle. But that's another story.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/277986/
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