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This Is an Amazing Object

What is this plastic oval? What does it mean? Apparently, we used to buy SO MANY compact-discs that a tool…

12 years ago

Stromberg Carlson Full-Line (Audio) Catalog 1950

Alright already: it's time to get away from the arch-obscuro-mixtapes, the pseudo-clever cultural commentary, and the puff pieces on electronic…

12 years ago

Absurd Vintage Hi Fi Website

Good fkkng god.  3,300 original hi-fi catalogs and datasheets scanned (in good quality), cataloged, and uploaded.  Get ready to be…

12 years ago

Without a doubt the stupidest fkkng thing i have ever posted

...but try to tell me you didn't laugh. Courtesy of this eBay auction. New actual PS dot com content coming…

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…

13 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…

13 years ago

Interesting New Audio Software from SONY – SpectraLayers Pro

This is pretty far afield from the general mission of Preservation Sound dot com, but those of you who have…

13 years ago

Welcome To The Sears World Of Sound! Let’s Install A Dashmate! (197X)

I think they left out Phase Six: smoke grass.  Jesus my car stereo really started fukkin up y'day.  The CD…

13 years ago

Absurd And Brilliant 1980s Consumer Electronics Commercials

If you've been reading this website for a while, you'll know that I post a lot of old print adverts…

13 years ago

An opinon piece that laments the ‘good old days’ of old-school music production (1958)

Download a four-page article from "High Fidelity Music at Home" (yes this was the title of an ancient magazine...) circa…

13 years ago