The Nazis invented Hi-Fi

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Thought the Nazis obviously didn't invent the sex doll, there having been a 
market for that sort of thing ever since sex was put back in the closet where it 
belongs, the great and sensuous simulacrum of boni-fied High Fidelity was a Nazi 
Development out of Western Electric/GE/RCA work done in the thirties for 
talkies, including a few patents that The Telephone company [ha, ha, ha. . . .  
http://tinyurl.com/m355b ] picked up in the process of taking Film Pioneer
[and prime American Mover and Shaker for the 'Talkies'] William Fox to 
the cleaners, removing the investment house of Pynchon & Company 
as collateral damage in the process. 

BASF, a subdivision of I.G. Farben, developed magnetic tape.

                The first public recording using the AEG Magnetophon was Nov. 
                19, 1936, with the London Philharmonic orchestra conducted by 
                Sir Thomas Beecham at BASF's own concert hall in Ludwigshaven. 
                Listen to sound excerpt. The tape used for this recording was an 
                improved formulation based on (Fe3O4) Ferric Oxide rather than 
                the original Carbonal Iron which was chemically less stable and 
                had a poor dynamic range of under 30db. The Ferric Oxide had a 
                dynamic range of 37db. Note in the center of the photo a single 
                Neumann bottle microphone that demonstrates the importance of
                 condenser microphones in the electrical era of sound recording. 
                BASF recreated the concert in the rebuilt Feierabendhaus to 
                make a complete digital recording. [photo courtesy of John 
                Parncutt, from EMTEC, Ludwigshaven, Germany]  

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/tape.html

     "Hark , the herald Angels sing,
     'Beecham's pills are just the thing' ."

                In 1932, AEG and IG Farben agree to collaborate on the 
                development of a magnetic recording device. The first 50,000 
                meters of magnetic tape are supplied in 1934. A year later, the 
                first "magnetophones" are presented to the public at the 1935 
                Radio Fair in Berlin. In 1936, the Feierabendhaus hosts a very 
                special premiere: An entire concert with Sir Thomas Beecham 
                conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra is recorded on 
                magnetic tape.

http://tinyurl.com/yvmxbk

                What Makes the Picture Talk: AT&T and the
                Development of Sound Motion Picture Technology

                By Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.
                Corporate Historian, AT&T Labs

                By mid-1922, Maxfield’s group had succeeded in producing an 
                experimental prototype system for electrical disc recording, 
                using Wente’s condenser microphone and amplifiers based on 
                Arnold’s design. In the new system, a condenser microphone 
                converted the musician’s sound energy intl electrical 
                energy, which then underwent amplification before being 
                converted into mechanical energy at the recording stylus. 

http://www.coutant.org/ecwente.html
 
                The CMV 3 was the first ever mass produced 
                condenser microphone, far superior to the 
                Reisz microphone, and it gained recognition 
                under the nickname of the ‘Neumann Bottle’. 
                It wasn’t exactly small, measuring approx. 
                9 cm in diameter and approx. 40 cm in height. 
                Its weight of nearly 3 kg made reporting a very 
                strenuous job. 
                Telefunken, a subsidiary of AEG and Siemens, 
                took on the marketing rights to Neumann’s 
                microphone. 
                Between 1928 and the end of World War II 
                the Bottle’s design remained virtually un- 
                changed, during which time it became firmly 
                established as the standard for studio use and 
                was used extensively in the 1936 Olympic 
                Games in Berlin. At this time there existed al- 
                ready a selection of exchangeable capsule 
                heads with different polar patterns.

http://www.kinovox.dk/docs/Neumann_history.PDF

                . . . .In 1932, AEG and IG Farben agree to collaborate on the 
                development of a magnetic recording device.

http://tinyurl.com/yvmxbk