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INNOVATION DECLINING INDUSTRY
The decline the phonograph business, and the frequent
crises created, had effect the morale the Edison
enterprise. Edison's
recording techniques, the other hand, emphasized the clear
reproduction each sound left the instrument. This produced the high volume and extenuated bass
notes that were fashionable, but doubtful that they added
new fidelity and beauty acoustic recordings claimed by
. Customers were
clamoring for the loudness and strident bass notes that
characterized electrical amplification sound. The future, which had once been bright and full of
opportunities, was now viewed with anxiety, and some cases,
fear. Instead brave new experimental projects, the "old man"
seemed obsessed with cutting costs and saving money. Edison's
overall strategy for the 1920s was financial retrenchment and
cautious support the existing product line.
By 1925 radio had captured the entertainment market and
was beginning redefine musical tastes. His research
agenda had been set the nineteenth century for still
labored improve the sound records and the quality the
duplicates. Yet such
was the demand for the radio sound that electrical amplifiers
were quickly put onto the market attach acoustic
phonographs
