The Gift: Dr. Amar Bose’s audio legacy

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The science behind sound reproduction has been studied for centuries. But what will research uncover in the centuries to come? One man made it his life’s mission to find out, and a gift he made to the world will continue that mission for the foreseeable future. Explore the extraordinary life of Dr. Amar Bose in this special holiday episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz. Featuring Ken Jacob from Bose. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/thegift Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz
0:03.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:07.0	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:08.0	The horse eats no cucumber salad.
0:15.0	According to many accounts,
0:17.0	the horse eats no cucumber salad were the first words transmitted through electronic
0:21.8	reproduction. This was way, way back in 1861 by Johann Philip Rice. He was developing an early
0:28.9	version of the telephone. Before then, sound could only travel long distances in the most
0:34.3	pristine environmental conditions, like in the Grand Canyon.
0:38.3	Hello!
0:40.3	Or by using a horn or megaphone, which didn't amplify the sound, but really just forced it all
0:46.3	into the same direction, allowing it to travel longer distances.
0:50.3	Hammer!
0:51.3	In the years to come, with advances in electronic audio transmission and amplification,
0:58.0	the world would slowly be introduced to the joys of reproduced sound.
1:02.0	And like Johann Rice, one of the icons in the field of audio reproduction that not many people know about is Dr. Amar Bose.
1:10.0	Full disclosure here, 20,000 Hertz is sponsored by that not many people know about is Dr. Amar Bose.
1:15.5	Full disclosure here, 20,000 Hertz is sponsored by Bose.
1:17.9	Earlier this year, I went to their corporate headquarters to meet with their team and see all of the new products.
1:21.1	But what I didn't know much about going into the meeting
1:23.5	was the history of their founder and his impact on the sound industry.
1:28.6	After speaking with many people at the company, I was so moved by one particular story that I wanted to make
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