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Where do you find all those old tubes?

When folks learn that I build and service vacuum-tube based audio equipment, some of the first questions they ask are:…

14 years ago

Scully 280 tape machines. Not Preserved.

Scully was one of the main US makers of professional multi-track tape machines through the 1970s.  Scully was based in…

14 years ago

Weekend Update With(out) Dennis Miller

Damn that dude was funny.  Heard he became/was-always a major reactionary.  Anyhow, PS was not updated this weekend because...  this…

14 years ago

Under Construction. Call For Archival Requests.

Tomorrow marks the first day of what we expect to be a 3-month period of intense construction work to create…

14 years ago

Shour. It’s Your Sound.

I wrote briefly about Cairo Egypt in an earlier post. As usually happens on our vacations, I try to seek…

14 years ago

just good design

The Advent 300 FM stereo receiver was introduced in 1976.  In audio-speak, 'Receiver' indicates a device which combines a tuner…

14 years ago

Recording some music today

Been recording today. We spent last evening setting up, running cables, tuning the drum kit, and getting some basic drum…

14 years ago

Getting your moods together

El Cajon, California was probably a pretty mellow place in 1978. This dude is killing it on stage. How about…

14 years ago

Issac Hayes Buys Some Used Components

One of my all-time favorite TV shows is The Rockford Files.  James Garner plays a laid-back ex-con private eye.  He's…

14 years ago

Introduction

This is a website about audio.  More specifically, the history of audio, and our relationship to audio.  Audio, broadly defined,…

14 years ago