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The Golden Age of Hi-Fi (ladies-of)

Images of women as depicted in high-fidelity guidebooks circa 1960.  These sort of publications generally deal in DIY advice, schematics,…

15 years ago

Electronic Drum Trends of the 1980s

Legendary pop/RnB session drummer Bernard Purdie was apparently the distributor (!) of the MPC line of electronic drums.  Purdie is…

15 years ago

Meridan, Mississippi 1973

Download the twenty-four page 1973 Peavey Electronic Sound Equipment catalog: DOWNLOAD: Peavey_1973_catalog Products covered in this catalog include: Peavey Musician…

15 years ago

Kay Electric Guitars c. 1968

Chicks go wild (in my mind) Goddamn I am playing this bass real fast My mom didn't like her, but…

15 years ago

Mono Pilot Hi-Fi Console System circa 1955

From PS Dot Com reader C. McColm come these images of his original circa 1955 Pilot mono hi-fi system.  I…

15 years ago

Multi-use vacuum-tube audio mixer circa 1960

Download a three-page article from Electronics World "Hi Fi Annual & Audio Handbook 1960" which details the construction of a…

15 years ago

Magnecord Tape Machine from Film Sound Studio circa 1955

Trolling eBay today in the wake of 'tropical storm' irene...   came across this very serious-looking gentleman at-work with a pretty…

15 years ago

Not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer.

There's a chance that Gold Coast Recorders will soon have a Crumar DS-2 in our synth collection/pile;  researching this Italo-Moog…

15 years ago

Out-of-Print-Book-Report: “The Guitars Friend” 1977

Download a thirteen-page excerpt from "The Guitars Friend" (no author credited), Quick Fox publishers, ISBN# 0-8256-3072-X: DOWNLOAD: GuitarsFriend_Elec   Billed…

15 years ago

Takin’ em to Church (with Altec)

Download the eight-page 1966 brochure "Altec Sound Systems for Houses of Worship": DOWNLOAD: Altec_Worship_1966 The text above is taken from…

15 years ago