Connecticut Audio History

UPDATED: Cook Labs Test Records Circa 1952

Several weeks ago I ran an article on Emory Cook, binaural recording pioneer and Connecticut entrepreneur.  Click here to read…

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Scully Model 100 Sixteen-Track Tape Machine of 1971

Above: The Scully 100 is introduced: 1971.  I love these headlines...  "...turns you on...   blows your mind...."   Amazing.  Anyhow... any…

12 years ago

The CBS Tech Center, High Ridge Road, Stamford CT

Above: The CBS Technology Center, development site and testing-ground for audio hardware, as seen in 1975.  An important piece of…

12 years ago

1973: The Mark Levinson Pre Amp

No account of CT audio-history could be complete without Mark Levinson.  Above: a 1973 advert for his first product, the…

12 years ago

1958 Bozak Hi-Fi Speaker Catalog

Courtesy of reader T.F., download the complete 1958 Bozak speaker catalog.  BTW, I am trying the PNG graphics format for…

12 years ago

UPDATED: Emory Cook, Binaural Recording Pioneer

Emory Cook records Long Island Sound at Shippen Point, Stamford CT (with two mics, of course): 1954.  He is using…

12 years ago

Excellent Article on Larry Scully and the Variable-Pitch Lathe c. 1956

Download a six-page article from HIGH FIDELITY 1956 concerning the history of the Scully corporation of Bridgeport Connecticut, including an…

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

My girl is cool. She digs the old records.

A mere 10 years after Bridgeport-based Columbia Records introduced the LP record, we see evidence that record collecting was already…

13 years ago

East Bridgeport, CT

Above: the view along Crescent ave from the intersection of Crescent and Bunnell, where a later Scully Recording Instruments Corp.…

13 years ago