Technical

A DIY Broadcast Limiter Project circa 1955

Courtesy of reader Bill W comes today's scan of a much more complex tube limiter project.  Herbert Hartmann penned this…

10 years ago

A Simple One-Tube Compressor Circuit c.1953

Reader Bill W recently sent us a few interesting ancient DIY audio projects that we had not seen before.  Today's…

10 years ago

UTC “R” Series universal replacement transformers of the 1940s/50s

While searching through my output transformer shelf for a suitable reverb-driver transformer for the basket-case Kalamazoo Reverb 12 I recently…

10 years ago

DIY Grammafoon Versterker circa 1939

We've covered some fairly obscure + forgotten audio publications here at PS dot com, but this one takes the taart.…

10 years ago

Less But Better: The Braun TG-1000 Tape Recorder of 1970

It's very hard to find vintage BRAUN hi-fi gear in the states; i've seen some amazing BRAUN receivers in Canada,…

10 years ago

RCA Solid State Audio Projects c. 1968

I'd never been particularly interested in learning solid state electronics.  There just didn't seem much point; considering that you can…

10 years ago

Federal AM-864 Limiter Clone: Build Notes: update 1

Note: I performed extensive frequency, level, and actual studio tests on the 864 clone today, and several interesting details were…

11 years ago

Mullard “Made For Music” c.1960 Catalog / Datasheets

Download the complete 6pp Mullard "Made for Music  / Valves For Audio Equipment" c. 1960 catalog: DOWNLOAD: Mullard_Made_For_Music Products covered,…

11 years ago

From the why-didn’t-i-think-of-that-first file – Great EZ hack for Octal can transformers

Via this eBay auction: a UTC A-12 mounted on a plate-retained octal plug, with the pins wired to correspond to…

11 years ago

Suicide Manual

In NYC in the mid-seventies, an electronic-based band arose amongst all the guitar punks, a band that was known as…

12 years ago