On the WWW – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:42:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 About the header image on this page… https://www.preservationsound.com/about-the-header-image-on-this-page/ https://www.preservationsound.com/about-the-header-image-on-this-page/#respond Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:42:41 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=89 The main page of this site is currently displaying a small sliver of the image reproduced below.  It’s a page from a SONY consumer electronics catalog (Japanese) from the early 70s. 

I pulled this page from a website that i sometimes refer to as The Greatest Website In The World:  the “product design database” of the Quatre Design Corporation.   I have no idea what the Quatre Corp is or what they do, and i have no idea how i stumbled upon this page…  feel like it was in the pre boing-boing era…  anyway, check it out.  Basically, these Quatre folks (likely industrial designers) have hi-res scanned and archived hundreds of Japanese-language consumer electronics and automotive catalogs from the past 50 years.

http://my.reset.jp/~inu/ProductsDataBase/index2.htm

This is a veritable goldmine of 70s audio hardware, as well as some of the wackiest audio marketing concepts that I Have Ever Seen.  Check out the SONY catalogs especially.  There is something so great about this style of photography.  the soft light, the ever-present gradient background…  it’s so dreamlike and futuristic all at once.  Get ready to waste some time…

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