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The Pilot ‘Pilotrol’ Hi Fi Preamp of the early 1950s

Pilot was one of the classic NYC Golden-Age Hi-Fi makers (see here for earlier coverage on PS dot com).  Although…

13 years ago

Hi-Fi in Mexico 1955

A two page article from AUDIO magazine circa 1955.  Consider this article in comparison to "Japan Goes Hi Fi."  How…

13 years ago

British Broadcast Tape Recorder Circa 1935: The Marconi-Stille

The development of magnetic tape recording is generally credited to German scientists.  It is their Magnetophone that provided the inspiration…

13 years ago

Ham Radio, Vernacular Graphics, and Silent Keys

(image source) Have you ever been driving around and noticed one of these huge metal antennae towers erected beside a…

13 years ago

Lafayette Microphones of the 1960s

Do any of the Top-Quality mics in the above scan look familiar? I seem to see... an RCA BK-1A? ....a…

14 years ago

Fostex ‘Personal’ Outboard Equipment of the 1980s

Download fourteen-pages of original product information regarding FOSTEX' "Personal Multitrack" outboard-equipment line of the 1980s: DOWNLOAD: Fostex_Outboard_Gear_1986 Included in this…

14 years ago

Out-of-print-book report: Magnetic Recording (1948)

Not sure where I came across this obscure volume.  Written by one S.J. Begun, then VP and chief engineer of…

14 years ago

Hallelujah

In recognition of the coming holiday: a solo gospel-blues arrangement of one of the greatest spiritual songs ever written.  Happy…

14 years ago

Boundaries

It is 1955.  WWII-era German military-communications equipment has been successfully deconstructed, economized, and introduced to the American public as the…

14 years ago

Happy Holidays.

I use low-power single-ended tube amps in our home for music and movie listening.  8watts per channel won't cut it…

14 years ago