Helmuth von Moltke is thought to be the only person born in the 18th century with a preserved voice recording ...

This article is a reconfigured version of an article published on the official Denon blog on March 2, 2021, for Audio Scape.

On any given day, try to avoid recorded sound and, well, good luck. Music, voice messages, the news, alerts at the Metro station — it all makes silence elusive. But less than 150 years ago, there was ...

Pandemic quarantine offered him an opportunity to reconnect with the old klezmer and Yiddish records in his collection, which he sampled and played guitar over to produce two albums. (JTA) — Folk ...

Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its ...

When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, he gave the world its first device that could both record and replay sound. A vibrating diaphragm pressed a stylus into soft wax, carving microscopic ...

The "silent" Helmuth Von Moltke was 88 years old when he became the earliest born person to ever have their voice recorded ...

One hundred years ago on a December day in 1877, the world’s first recording session took place in a laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. It was strictly a one-man show. A 30-year-old scientist, Thomas Alva ...