Ray Dolby just died, age 80. Brilliant innovator.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/us/ray-dolby-obituary/?iref=obinsite

How many people here remember the dolby sound process?

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/us/ray-dolby-obituary/?iref=obinsite

How many people here remember the dolby sound process?

Indeed a genius! May he RIP after giving the world a real gift.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
Indeed a genius! May he RIP after giving the world a real gift.

So three geniuses named Ray. Ray Dolby, Ray Kurzweil, Ray Scudero. That last one was my best buddy in Jerusalem, also RIP with a brain tumor at the age of 55. Singer songwriter, 600 songs written, luthier, polymath.

Originally posted by sonhouse
So three geniuses named Ray. Ray Dolby, Ray Kurzweil, Ray Scudero. That last one was my best buddy in Jerusalem, also RIP with a brain tumor at the age of 55. Singer songwriter, 600 songs written, luthier, polymath.

I did not know you were Ray Scudero's friend. Awesome composer. Kurzweil, another genius. Now don't tell me you knew Ray Bradbury!

Can We have a moment of SILENCE for Ray Dolby please. ...........no hiss.

Originally posted by scacchipazzo
I did not know you were Ray Scudero's friend. Awesome composer. Kurzweil, another genius. Now don't tell me you knew Ray Bradbury!

Nah, just Ray Coniff🙂

Originally posted by gregsflat
Can We have a moment of SILENCE for Ray Dolby please. ...........no hiss.

good one! No hissing allowed. Hey, you still in Philly?

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/us/ray-dolby-obituary/?iref=obinsite

How many people here remember the dolby sound process?

Oh yes, I remember it.

I have to chuckle when I meet people who talk endlessly about how CDs are very 'flat' compared to records, about the cabling they have just paid £30 a metre for to their speakers, how MP3 downloads are even worse etc.

When I first started listening to music, I had a mono tape recorder with a hand held mike that I had to hold up to the radio.

Then I got a stereo cassette player with dolby. God, did I feel state of the art (thanks Dad)

Today I have an Iphone and Spotify account and a pair of Bose headphones. I doubt the outlay for this in real terms was that much more than for the stereo cassette (as I said, thanks Dad).

I can download almost anything I want in sound quality that was unimaginable when I was a child.

Yet still some people bang on about the sound quality of downloads.

They have no idea.

🙂