Apr 23, 2022 1:30 PM

Zoom Meeting April 23rd:

Please join us this month for a presentation by Tom Fine on the history
of stereo recording. Tom gave this material to the AES a few years ago
in two parts: “The Roots of Stereophony” and “The Commercialization of
Stereophony.” He promises not to dumb it down for us lowly audiophiles,
but he will speed it up into one seamless lecture, which will delve into
the technologies and key people involved in the early commercialization
of stereophonic sound recordings. To really spice up the meeting, Tom
will include rare, historically significant audio examples, including
excerpts from the first commercially-available stereo LP, plus excerpts
from the author's collection of stereo demonstration records and tapes.
Put on your best headphones on and enjoy the show.

Tom of course is the scion of the late Fine family of recording
engineers, Robert and Wilma Cozart Fine. A couple of summers ago Tom
addressed us live at an NJAS meeting at Leon Paboojian's.

Most of you are already familiar with Tom’s work, but to give you the
fuller picture, we should mention that Tom is a member of the
Association of Recorded Sound Collections, the Audio Engineering Society
and the Adirondack 46rs. He operates an analog-to-digital transfer and
mastering studio in Brewster, NY. Recent work includes producing,
remastering and authoring booklet notes for the ongoing Mercury Living
Presence reissue program for Universal Music Group's Decca Classics and
Eloquence imprints, and a major tape transfer project for the Boston
Symphony Orchestra's archive. Past projects have included tranfer and
remaster work for audio used in the Netflix documentary about Nina
Simone, What Happened, Miss Simone?. Tom also remastered and wrote the
liner notes for the Mercury Living Presence CD box sets. Tom has
published articles and equipment reviews in the ARSC Journal and TapeOp
magazine as well as the AES Historical Committee website
andPreservationsound.com . His music
reviews have been published inStereophile, the ARSC Journal, TapeOp
magazine and Blackgrooves.org .