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If Edison could convince you that a Diamond Disc sounds like the way you have decided life sounds, he would own your worldview. He would own you.

Well yeah, it smacks of goofy dorm room manifesto talk, but it’s a central point that underlies everything going on throughout the history here, in a way that doesn’t really exist in films, novels, or painting (though certainly in photography). Using their own product as the standard for “the way life sounds,” engineers have worked to control the way we hear the rest of the world. It’s similar to the way the lab-created flavors in fast food have come to dictate a lot of people’s ideas of how real food tastes. Continue reading →