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tyella

tyella

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Hi all,
I have access to a library with old Stereo Review magazines. If anyone would like a review posted, just let me know. My plan is to simply photograph requested pages with my phone, so we're talking readable but not reproduction quality.

I'm NOT trying to collect money, just pay back karma. I have mooched valuable info from this site and this is something I can offer in return.

Please post the month/year if you know it. It will be so much easier to find specific reviews that way! In the absence of specifics, I'll probably just peruse a volume or two a week, photographing interesting bits as I go.
Tony
 
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- Feb 1988: Luxman R-115
- March 1988: Luxman R-117
- July 1981: KEF 103.2 speakers
- Dec 1978: Pioneer SX-1980
- Sept 1977: Luxman R-1050

I hope this is not too greedy. I looked up the index and I tried to restrain myself. :D
 
tyella said:
Hi all,
I have access to a library with old Stereo Review magazines. If anyone would like a review posted, just let me know. My plan is to simply photograph requested pages with my phone, so we're talking readable but not reproduction quality.

I'm NOT trying to collect money, just pay back karma. I have mooched valuable info from this site and this is something I can offer in return.

Please post the month/year if you know it. It will be so much easier to find specific reviews that way! In the absence of specifics, I'll probably just peruse a volume or two a week, photographing interesting bits as I go.
Tony
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They used to do these great dismissive "**** Sandwich" album reviews. One month a new Neil Diamond album got a one sentence review: "This is the stuff your uncle listens to".

Another month another album got this: "You know those fake rock bands that appeared in movies and TV shows to depict the teen scene? Remember how we used to laugh at those bands? This is one of those bands."


OK, please find me the review for DSOTM. :D
 
This is a learning process....
There was no review for the Luxman R-117 in March of 1988. However, I have all of the others! They are PDFs at about 1.5 MB each. All but one (KEF speakers, attached) exceeds the max file size. I think I'll also hit my "digital limit" on AK soon enough.

What to do next?
I can email, if you PM me your email address, but it seems these reviews should live somewhere on AK. Should there be a section in the Digital Docs for them?

Eventually I can probably learn to tinker with the files and make them smaller. It took a little while to get them to the stage they're currently in.


McBru6177 said:
Thanks for the offer.

- Feb 1988: Luxman R-115
- March 1988: Luxman R-117
- July 1981: KEF 103.2 speakers
- Dec 1978: Pioneer SX-1980
- Sept 1977: Luxman R-1050

I hope this is not too greedy. I looked up the index and I tried to restrain myself. :D
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Attachments

No DSOTM...

I checked the month before and after the release of DSOTM (March 1973), but didn't see anything. Sorry!

It would be cool if Lester Bangs did the review of that album. As this process continues, I may find it in a later month or year.

loopstick said:
OK, please find me the review for DSOTM. :D
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tyella said:
I checked the month before and after the release of DSOTM (March 1973), but didn't see anything. Sorry!

It would be cool if Lester Bangs did the review of that album. As this process continues, I may find it in a later month or year.
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Usually the album reviews were 3-4 months behind release dates.
 
To be honest, I wish that the publisher would release CD-Rom disc of the decades of Stereo Review, including everything from the front cover to the back cover and everything in the center... I would buy the discs covering the 70s, 80 and 90s in a heartbeat!! Tried of moving all my back issues... Well, one more move next year and that's it for me!!
 
Speakers

I would love to see the reviews of 2 speakers which I own from the 90s. Signet SL-260s and Definitive Technology DR7s.
Thank you. I do not know the dates or issues. I do remember that they were reviewed by Julian Hirsch, and I purchased them substantially based upon the reviews.
 
I will look for those next time I'm browsing around in the back issues. I tend to hang out in the '70s issues, myself. I'll have to branch out a bit!


iramegdal said:
I would love to see the reviews of 2 speakers which I own from the 90s. Signet SL-260s and Definitive Technology DR7s.
Thank you. I do not know the dates or issues. I do remember that they were reviewed by Julian Hirsch, and I purchased them substantially based upon the reviews.
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This is great, thanks for the offer. Not sure of the year or month but have it narrowed down to either June or July of 89 or 90, the review of the original Infinity Modulus speakers with matching servo sub. If you can find this article you might find it very interesting reading.

Martin
 
Happy to do it. I'll probably not get there until Tuesday or Wednesday, but I'll check for the Modulus review.

Kingshead said:
This is great, thanks for the offer. Not sure of the year or month but have it narrowed down to either June or July of 89 or 90, the review of the original Infinity Modulus speakers with matching servo sub. If you can find this article you might find it very interesting reading.

Martin
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tyella said:
This is a learning process....
There was no review for the Luxman R-117 in March of 1988. However, I have all of the others! They are PDFs at about 1.5 MB each. All but one (KEF speakers, attached) exceeds the max file size. I think I'll also hit my "digital limit" on AK soon enough.

What to do next?
I can email, if you PM me your email address, but it seems these reviews should live somewhere on AK. Should there be a section in the Digital Docs for them?

Eventually I can probably learn to tinker with the files and make them smaller. It took a little while to get them to the stage they're currently in.
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Many thanks for the KEF review. It's nice to read a positive review about something I own and love from a respected source such as Stereo Review.

Don't worry about the other reviews for now. I agree that they should live somewhere on AK for others to see.
 
I don't ever recall SR ever writing a bad review of a piece of equipment. After awhile it got to redundant and annoying at least to me. Not everything can good. Some things have to be so so at a given price point otherwise there's no good or bad. After awhile (into my late teens) I realized that advertisers paid the bills.
 
Well, since you offered, how 'bout,

March 1970 : Advent Speaker
March 1974: Marantz 4140
January 1976: Pioneer PL15DII

Thanks in advance!
 
KentTeffeteller said:
bergun,

I'd buy a DVD-ROM with all issues complete and scanned to PDF format. I'd also do the same for Audio and High Fidelity magazine too. And would also do the same for books of scanned classic High Fidelity, Stereo, and electronics books from the classic era. And would do the same for Billboard, Cash Box, and Record World. Have you considered scanning your issues and sending those scans to www.americanradiohistory.com to add to their existing issues? That would be nice to have.
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I'll look into it since I'll be retiring within the next 4 months and this would be a good way to "give back." I have every single issue from January 1980 on up.... I messed up and threw away all my old Video, Video Review, Audio and Hi Fidality magazines back in the mid 90s.
 
Appreciate your generous offer!
I'd like to see the
Bogen RT 6000 (Dec. 1964)

Would really like to find something on a Bogen RT 8000 (my model). But have searched high and low and have found nothing except one ad from Jun 1966.

Thanks!

Dave
 
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