Category Archives: Publications

Suicide Manual

Posted on 04/16/2013 by chris

In NYC in the mid-seventies, an electronic-based band arose amongst all the guitar punks, a band that was known as much for their confrontational post-beatnik vocals as for the strange and intense sounds that emanated from their famously homemade electronic … Continue reading →

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Hottt Pixxx (SFW)

Posted on 08/27/2012 by chris

  Download the twelve-page ‘guide to STEREO’ from the July 1971 issue of the International Magazine For Men: DOWNLOAD:Penthouse_Stereo_71 Items of apparent concern to readers of this publication (see image above): Nuclear power; package size; dangerous-computers; hegemonic reproduction via linguistic … Continue reading →

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1953: What is High Fidelity?

Posted on 04/02/2012 by chris

Lee de Forest (L), the man who invented the voltage-amplifer tube, takes in the state-of-the-art in consumer audio reproduction c. 1953. Download a two-page article on the subject of “What is High Fidelity” as-published right at the dawn of the … Continue reading →

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Audio Anthology: Collected Hi-Fi articles from AUDIO ENGINEERING in the 1940s

Posted on 01/29/2012 by chris

PS dot com reader Paul R. was kind enough to send us a scan of “Audio Anthology,” (ed. C.G. McProud) a 124pp softcover published in 1950.  “Audio Anthology” (hf. ‘AA’) is a collection of project-construction articles aimed at hi-fi (rather … Continue reading →

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Out-of-print Book Report: “Making 4-Track Music,” John Peel (TRACK pub., 1987)

Posted on 01/22/2012 by chris

Download a seven-page scan of some interesting hardware on offer in “Making 4-Track Music,” Track Publishing 1987: DOWNLOAD: 4trackMusic_JohnPeel Includes advertisements for Yamaha MT2X, DX100, and RX17 drum machine; Akai MG614 four-track machine, Tascam Porta2 4-track, Fostex 160, the Boss … Continue reading →

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Out-of-print Book Report: “Professional Rock And Roll” (1967)

Posted on 01/19/2012 by chris

Download a six-page excerpt regarding ‘the sound system’ from “Professional Rock And Roll” (Ed. Herbert Wise, Collier, 1967): DOWNLOAD: Professional_Rock_And_Roll_Excerpt Very much along the lines of “Electric Rock” (1971)  and “Starting Your Own Band” (1980), “Professional Rock And Roll” (h.f. … Continue reading →

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VALVE Magazine 1994-1999 Archived Online

Posted on 12/28/2011 by chris

Image Source (n.b.: clicking link will initiate PDF download) The Bottlehead Company is a long-running fixture of the DIY tube audio world.  If you’ve spent any amount of time Googling-about for tube-audio related themes you have probably come across their … Continue reading →

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Sound Practices Zine Archive Available on CDR

Posted on 12/17/2011 by chris

I was checking out this bro’s blog (or bros’ blog? lots of chick pics) recently and I came across an endorsement of the PDF version of Sound Practices magazine.  I had never seen an actual issue of Sound Practices (it … Continue reading →

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Stancor Amplifiers and Full Transformer Data c.1937

Posted on 10/28/2011 by chris

The Stancor ’306′ 6-watt PP audio amplifier Download the 1937 (‘third edition’) of Stancor Transformers’ ‘Amplimanual,’ a 24pp publication which conveniently combines schematics for ten original audio amplifiers with full data for their entire line of transformers.  If you (like … Continue reading →

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Selling Fender Kit In The Mid 1970s

Posted on 10/20/2011 by chris

Fender Stratocaster and Quad Reverb as characterized by Detroit-musician caricature ‘Bumpwell Blues’; note Strat-as-phallus reference. The mid 1970s is the most maligned period of Fender’s history.  Musicians and collectors alike complain of such indignities as three-bolt necks on Stratocasters and … Continue reading →

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