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Forgotten Formats: The Elcaset

Here's the thing about experimental anything.  Experimental music, experimental writing, experimental technology: if it really, truly is experimental, that means…

12 years ago

Visual Culture: the late 1970’s

Today on PS dot com: a quick survey of some wonderful Hi-Fi visuals circa 1977.  Above: Fuji blank cassette media. …

12 years ago

Great Ladies of Electronic Music: Rosalyn Tureck

Bach Expert Rosalyn Tureck at-work at the Moog Modular circa 1977.  Tureck was a student of Leon Theremin and made…

12 years ago

Augmenting the Feeble Groans Of Hopeful Teenagers (aka Signal Processing)

RCA Studio circa 1964.  Ed Begley resists adjusting the controls.   Download an eight-page article, again from 'Easy Guide To…

12 years ago

Bridgeport, CT Circa 1964

Today: From "Easy Guide To Stereo HiFi," 1964, ed. Robert Mayfield: a short pictorial on the subject of 'How a…

12 years ago

Hottt Pixxx (SFW)

  Download the twelve-page 'guide to STEREO' from the July 1971 issue of the International Magazine For Men: DOWNLOAD:Penthouse_Stereo_71 Items…

12 years ago

Pioneer: Complete 1977 Catalog

Pretty good one for y'all today.  Click below to download the complete 32-panel 1977 PIONEER STEREO COMPONENTS Catalog No. 13:…

12 years ago

The Guitar: 1964

Download a five-page scan from "A World Of Music," Fall 1964: the subject is 'the guitar,' and we are treated…

12 years ago

RCA BC-2B Recording Studio Console c. 1952

Reader T.F. sent me this scan from AUDIO ENGINEERING c. 1952: the introduction of the RCA BC-2B Console. LEFT: The…

12 years ago

Studio’d

Above: the Kawaii EP608 electric stringed-piano.  Anyone? Been super-busy at the studio lately, leaving me very little time to attend…

12 years ago