How the Grateful Dead Created the Accidental Future of Sound

How the Grateful Dead Created the Accidental Future of Sound

This summer, when the bass drops clean and delay-free at Lollapalooza or some other sweaty festival field, spare a thought for the Grateful Dead. You have them to thank, whether you have a skull and roses tat or not. The technology that makes modern sound possible has an unlikely origin story. Your AirPods deliver clean audio thanks to experiments that began in 1974, when the Dead’s sound crew stacked a 75-ton scaffolding of speakers behind them…