The Gramophone. Its Past: Its Present: Its Future
Compton Mackenzie · Proceedings of the Musical Association · 1924
I hope that you will forgive me for passing over as rapidly as possible the early history of experiments with recorded sound. I am more anxious to call your attention in this paper to some of the problems that confront us in the present, and to offer you the results of my own practical experience with the gramophone rather than a hotch-potch of other people's acoustical theories which I lack either the ingenuity to exploit or the scientific training to appreciate.