Alex Rosner on Soundsystems, Hearing damage and DJing | Red Bull Music Academy

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Alex Rosner began his love affair with sound in the golden age of hi-fi – and by the early ‘70s had pioneered the first stereo soundsystem in clubs.

Alex Rosner has plenty of tricks for people interested in clear, loin-vibrating sound reproduction in this lecture from the 2003 Red Bull Music Academy – but when we say, “That’s magic,” he says, “That’s just ordinary basic principles.”
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You’re likely to hear his name mentioned in connection with the success of legendary New York clubs such as David Mancuso’s The Loft, but you might not know he radically changed the world of DJing when he came up with the prototype for another new gadget – a friendly little mixer with a cueing system called Rosie.

TOPICS:
08:45 - Sounds and frequencies
13:30 - Soundsystems
20:36 - Speaker placement
28:30 - Hearing damage
36:14 - DJs and loudness
40:11 - Inventing the cueing system

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