This week we’ll conclude our series of archival material courtesy of Magnecord founding partner John Boyers. John’s son D. graciously scanned every page of every available issue of the company publication “Magnecord INC,” which was published between 1950 and 1954. If anyone out there has any issues that we are missing, please chime in and […]
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From the personal archive of John Boyers, founding partner of Magnecord INC, we present the complete circa 1953 Magnecord INC catalog. Click the link below to download the eight-page PDF: DOWNLOAD: Magnecord_Catalog_Circa1953 Products covered, with text and photos, include: Magnecord PT6-A Recorder Mechanism, PT6-R line-level input amplifier and PT6-J Mic-level input/output amplifier; PT63-A three-head recorder […]
D. Boyers, son of Magnecord, INC founding engineer John Boyers, has once again presented Preservation Sound with an incredible collection of rare documents from this seminal pro audio manufacturer. (click here to read the previous installment) Over the next few weeks I will work on getting all the material online. To start things off, here’s […]
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Complete Magnecord System on eBay
For all the PS dot com readers who have inquired about the Magnecord tube reel-to-reel machines that I have discussed here: a complete system, including the very rare PT6-IM3 mixer unit, is available on eBay right now with a current price of $124. I have no knowledge of this specific unit or this seller. […]
From the personal collection of D. Boyers, son of Magnecord founding partner John Boyers, PreservationSound is excited to be able to offer several rare documents and historical reminiscences. The Magnecord PT6 was one of the very first broadcast-quality tape recorders ever made – 1948 – and you can still find working (or repairable) examples. If […]
Download the entire 16pp TERMINAL RADIO Recording and Hi-Fidelity Equipment catalog: DOWNLOAD: Terminal_Radio_1949_Catalog Products covered, with text, some specs, and photos, include: Brush Magnetic tape recorders BK414, 710B, 810, and 808 Twin-trak; hi-fi tube amps from Brooks (10C3, 12A3), Meissner 9-1093 tuner amp and 9-1091C, RJ-12A tuners; tuners from Browning, Many Stephens Tru-sonic speaker systems […]
UPDATE: THIS HAS BEEN SOLD. IT IS GONE. I HAVE NO FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT IT. Extraordinarily rare, way ahead-of-its-time Fairchild mic preamp/ continuously-variable 2-band boost-eq/cutter-head amp from 1945. Built as a limited-edition model, very few were made and this could be the only example remaining. This one was (professionally, it appears) modified very long ago […]
Emory Cook records Long Island Sound at Shippen Point, Stamford CT (with two mics, of course): 1954. He is using a Modified Magnecorder. This, and all other reproduced materials in this article are courtesy T.Fine. ***UPDATE: I’ve added a variety of links to relevant Cook-resources at the end of the piece. *** Thanks again to […]
Download a nine-page piece first presented in 1952 by one Otto Bixler of the Magnecord Corporation. Bixler describes Magnecord’s early work in the field of stereophonic recording and reproduction. DOWNLOAD: BinauralRecordingSystem_Bixler Thank you to a very helpful long-time contributor for sending this piece in. This article was originally published right at the dawn on […]
Tony Schwartz is a towering figure in the worlds of audio production, advertising, and media studies. I recently came across a very obscure, AFAIK never-before-reproduced (feel free to prove me wrong here guys…) profile on Schwartz from the July 1957 issue of “Better Listening Through High Fidelity” magazine (h.f. ‘BLTHF’). As far as I can […]