Download a rather lengthy brochure introducing the KEF model 105 Hi-Fi speaker system:
DOWNLOAD: KEF_105_speakers
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Sway + Sanchez return tonight to Firehouse 12, 45 Crown ST, New Haven CT, for 4 hours of lost LP gems… it’s been a great summer for crate digging and I’ve excited to be able to deliver some all-new sets.
Above: last week’s finds (thanks DS): The Electric Prunes 2nd LP “Underground”; Twarz, Poland’s Janis c. 1970; Cherry People, obscure Shondells-styled pop rock; Earth Opera, which was Dave Grisman’s psych band before he found fame as a roots performer; FUSION, an early Ry Cooder project, v v Beefheart psych weirdo blues; Barrabas, spanish rock band c. 1970; Black Pearl, a v cool MC5-type Dopers-Play-James-Brown RnB freakout music; and two LPs from The Equals (Israeli pressings ?!?!), utterly fantastic band fronted by a young Eddy Grant.
Come on down to CT’s best bar and hear all the non-hits.
Got a pretty good one for y’all today… download the complete 12pp catalog for the Studer 169 Portable Audio Mixer:
DOWNLOAD:Studer_169
Oh Studer 169. How long you have taunted me on eBay. How little use I would probably find for you. Available in configurations varying from 8 to 11 inputs, 1 to 4 masters (each with integral limiter), the 169 was a 19″ rackmoutable mixer. Anyone using of these? Weigh in!
Download ten pages of literature regarding the Quad/Eight model 248 mixing system:
DOWNLOAD:QuadEight_248
Anyone?
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The Sound Of 23.5 Karat Gold
Download not one but two circa ’72 brochures for the EMT 240 ‘Gold Foil’ reverb system:
DOWNLOAD: EMT_240_reverb
The 240 was apparently intended not to replace the 140 so much as provide a smaller, portable (132 lbs haha) alternative. I’ve provided y’all with 10 pages of documentation here, it’s worth reading.. this thing really is an engineering marvel. Rather than a ‘plate,’ the reverberant surface is a tensioned sheet of gold-foil 18 microns thick. This gold-foil material, btw, was a completely in-house-made material… fkkn crazy. Anyhow, check it out… those of you who have had experience working with both a 140 and 240, pls weigh in on the relative merits thereof.
DISCO 421: Capturing the feeling that you get exactly one minute after four-twenty, all my dank-bros. Yes this is an image intended to sell audio mixers. Download the original sales-fliers for the RUSSCO Disco 421, Studio Master 505 and Studio Master 505S:
DOWNLOAD: Russco_Mixers_1981
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Visual Culture part XIV: 1981
Just stick a Porsche next to pretty much anything
In Hartley Peavey’s imaginarium, everything is made of Peaveys. Kinda like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, but with amps.
‘Hey Jim, how about Denim for the background?’ ‘Sounds good Mike.’
Is she intended as *a simile for the speakers? *a metaphor for the musical signal that will ‘exite’ these speakers? *a metonym for the community of all nightclub-speaker users? *a form of ‘impossible representation’ given that she seems quite unlikely to be a purchaser of this product, and the speakers are equally unlikely to be a ‘client’ of hers? Please use the COMMENTS section to offer your own analysis of the precise ‘non-literal meaning’ being used here.
Top to bottom: Toa, Peavey, Mesa-Boogie, Cerwin Vega, all circa 1981.
Download the 4pp catalog for Technics’ top-end tape deck of the late 70s, the RS-M95:
DOWNLOAD: Technics_M95
A few months back, I was sweatin the Technics RS-M85 of the same era; turns out there was an ever finer deck on offer. Man high-end tape decks were nuts back then. And the best part is that almost none of em work anymore!!!! Truly lost to time. Hey btw we have a really exciting cassette themed video dropping in a few weeks, keep ’em peeled…
Download the 40pp book/advertorial “Amplification Without Distortion,” as published by the Acme Apparatus Company of Cambridge Mass in 1925:
DOWNLOAD: Acme_AWD_1925
We haven’t run anything quite so Ye Olde for a while, so I was excited to come across this odd little item at the flea mkt recently. Acme made a few transformers and other radio-part-flotsam and this book offers fundamental advice and construction information regarding RF and AF amps. I’ve included some of the more relevant Audio Amp information below; I’m not a radio guy so I can’t comment on that stuff… At left is their A-2 audio transformer, seems like a Plate-to-Grid unit based on the specs. I think I actually have one of these around somewhere…
I actually own a few of these super fkkn old homemade radios, and they are really pretty fascinating, starting with the fact that there’s basically NOTHING in them… they don’t even have wires, everything is connected via buss bars. I also picked up a circa 1922 one-tube power amp a couple years back, eventually I’ll get around to firing it up… this is real dawn-of-a-new-age stuff here, folks, all of this gear was designed to run on batteries, cos very few people had ELECTRICITY when this book was published. Dig in….
Below, schematics for the three audio amplifiers spec’d in the book:
How y’all doing… tonight I’ll be behind the Garrard 301’s at Firehouse 12 in New Haven Connecticut, joining mi hermano Sway for another night of dark old rock soul + psych. Come on down to the best bar in CT and expand yr horizons, man.
UNSPUN at Firehouse 12
45 Crown St New Haven CT