I took this picture from an article on the promotion of the Edison phonograph (Floyd Toole also used it in his talk for CIRMMT) ... check it out ... kind of fun.

http://santarosahistory.com/wordpress/2019/06/why-that-sounds-too-good-to-be-true/

The part I like is that Edison hired singers who could mimic how they sounded on the recordings for these tests

Last edited by rrlev; 04/07/20 10:37 PM. Reason: changed Victrola to phonograph ... not sure if the Victrola was a type of phonograph or a competitor's name for one