Soundstream
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| The corporate logo of Soundstream, Inc. | |
| Industry | Digital Audio |
| Founded | Salt Lake City, Utah (1975–1985) |
| Founder | Dr. Thomas G. Stockham, Jr |
| Soundstream Technical Specifications | |
| Frequency Response | Flat from 0 Hz to 21 kHz |
| Wow and Flutter | Unmeasurable |
| Total Harmonic Distortion | Less than 0.004% at 0VU |
| Signal-to-Noise Ratio | Better than 90dB RMS, Unweighted |
| Dynamic Range | Better than 90dB RMS, Unweighted |
| Crosstalk | Less than -85dB |
| Print-through | None |
| Sampling Rate | 50,000 per second |
| Digital Format | 16 bits linear encoding / decoding |
Soundstream Inc. was the first audiophile digital audio recording company, providing commercial services for recording and computer-based editing.
Soundstream was founded in 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah by . The company provided worldwide on-location recording services to Telarc, Delos, RCA, Philips, Vanguard, Varèse Sarabande, Angel, Warner Brothers, CBS, Decca, Chalfont, and other labels. It also leased or sold some recorders (a total of 18 were manufactured). Although most recordings were of classical music, the range included country, rock, jazz, pop, and avant-garde.
The first live digital recording, that of a symphony orchestra, was made in 1976 by Soundstream's prototype 37 kHz, 16-bit, two channel recorder.New World Records, which recorded the Santa Fe Opera's performance of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, provided Soundstream with a stereo feed from their multitrack console. Soundstream demonstrated its recording of the opera at the Fall 1976 AES Convention. Critiques of the recording, most notably from Telarc's Jack Renner and Robert Woods, led directly to the improved four-channel, 50 kHz sample rate recorder that was used for all of Soundstream's future commercial releases. (The New World Records issue of Mother of Us All was not from the digital recording made by Soundstream, but rather from the analog tape that New World recorded themselves.)
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