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Rare Tony Schwartz Interview/Profile From “Better Listening Through Hi-Fi” July 1957

Tony Schwartz is a towering figure in the worlds of audio production, advertising, and media studies.  I recently came across…

14 years ago

Welcome To The Sears World Of Sound! Let’s Install A Dashmate! (197X)

I think they left out Phase Six: smoke grass.  Jesus my car stereo really started fukkin up y'day.  The CD…

14 years ago

Add Vibrato (?) To Any Tube Amp! (1962)

Download a short article from 1962 by one F.H. Calvert on the subject of adding a vibrato circuit to any…

14 years ago

Best Shirt

Circa 1977: Pioneer Electronics promo T-Shirt.  From an era when audio consumer audio electronics were expensive, rarefied, and had actual…

14 years ago

Absurd And Brilliant 1980s Consumer Electronics Commercials

If you've been reading this website for a while, you'll know that I post a lot of old print adverts…

14 years ago

Yard Sale Speaker’s Spotter’s Guide: 4: AR and Klipsch

Today: the last in our series on better-quality readily available vintage hifi speakers.  Above, AR's AR-3A, AR-2AX, AR-6, AR-7, AR-5,…

14 years ago

Yard Sale Speakers Spotter’s Guide: 3: Dynaco

Above, the Dynaco line-up circa 1974: A10, A-25, A-35, and A-50 speaker systems; Stereo 120, Stereo 50, and Stereo 400…

14 years ago

Yard-Sale Speaker Spotter’s Guide: 2: KLH

Today: part two of our series on the higher-end of widely available vintage hifi speakers: KLH.  Despite their very generic,…

14 years ago

Yard-Sale Speaker Spotter’s Guide: 1: JBL

JBLs 'in-the-studio.'  Seriously tho you wouldn't want to use these in an actual recording studio these days, trust me I've…

14 years ago

An opinon piece that laments the ‘good old days’ of old-school music production (1958)

Download a four-page article from "High Fidelity Music at Home" (yes this was the title of an ancient magazine...) circa…

14 years ago