Fil magnétiquethumb|right|Un télégraphone modèle 1898, premier appareil à employer la technique du fil magnétique. L'enregistrement sur fil magnétique est une technologie obsolète, employée pour l'enregistrement sonore et sa restitution principalement dans la première moitié du . Le premier à l'employer est Valdemar Poulsen qui invente en 1898 le télégraphone, présenté à l'Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris : son fonctionnement est basé sur un fil en acier, magnétisé à l'enregistrement.
Sound recording and reproductionSound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording. Sound recording is the transcription of invisible vibrations in air onto a storage medium such as a phonograph disc. The process is reversed in sound reproduction, and the variations stored on the medium are transformed back into sound waves.
Comparison of analog and digital recordingSound can be recorded and stored and played using either digital or analog techniques. Both techniques introduce errors and distortions in the sound, and these methods can be systematically compared. Musicians and listeners have argued over the superiority of digital versus analog sound recordings. Arguments for analog systems include the absence of fundamental error mechanisms which are present in digital audio systems, including aliasing and associated anti-aliasing filter implementation, jitter and quantization noise.