Do you remember the issues? Maybe some of us could scan or reprint if we have them.
Old audio magazines
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Do you remember the issues? Maybe some of us could scan or reprint if we have them.
G'day all, yes our High School library back in the 1970's had copies of Electronics Australia, Electronics Today International and Popular Mechanics.
As I recall they were my early inspiration for 'Hi Fi' in the early days. I think that is where I was introduced to 'Shure phono cartridges'!
Here at home now I do have quite a large library of electronics magazines from those days and it's always fun to re-read them. :yes: Regards, Felix aka catman.
As I recall they were my early inspiration for 'Hi Fi' in the early days. I think that is where I was introduced to 'Shure phono cartridges'!
Here at home now I do have quite a large library of electronics magazines from those days and it's always fun to re-read them. :yes: Regards, Felix aka catman.
soundboy
Super Member
Oh yes. Mid 90s issue with Boston Acoustics' CR7 bookshelf speakers on cover (I had the slightly bigger CR8 at that time). Then there was another issue where I asked whether "do factory-sealed blank cassette tapes go bad over time?" It was published roughly about the same time as the Boston Acoustics issue.
Memories....
Gang-Twanger
Resident Wharfedaliophool
That's like hitting the mother lode for audio print.In my vintage travels I have come across a decent amount of audio gear but not one piece of audio print.
Yeah, me neither. I've been looking too. I would love to find old reviews and ads for some of the gear I have, like my W90's and my 2000x. I dig that stuff (I kind of avoid the reprinted stuff you see on EEK!bay strictly on principle... I've thought about maybe buying an original though, but I'd rather find the whole magazine... I'd like to find an entire collection actually).
cgutz
AK Member
I was flipping through copies of Hifidelity today from 1962-1964. I find it a hoot that the advertisers were singing the praises of how much better transistors sounded than tubes...and were using a term "transistor sound.
Now we have people (myself a recent convert to tubes) singing the praises of how much better the "tube sound" is.
Go figure...
Now we have people (myself a recent convert to tubes) singing the praises of how much better the "tube sound" is.
Go figure...
pdm4606
Super Member
old mag's.
I have 3 old Audio mag's from 1955.
One has an article about building a EV patrician speaker.
I also have Hi-Fi Stereo review buyers issue from 1969, 1976, and other years. I also have an Audio buyers guide from 1996 and others.
I get a kick out of looking at all the old recvr's. and audio stuff that are so highly valued on ebay now.
The expectations about transistor was extreme up until the late 90's.
Then the bottom fell out. When Macintosh and other high end people went back to tubes, the handwriting was on the wall. Same for CD versus lp.
I don't have any tube stuff as I got my fill of the space heaters when I was younger. I built many Knight Kit stuff because it was cheap and boy was it a problem. I remember my biggest problem was tube pin arcing.
My last kit was a Fisher KX-100. It sounded good but never worked right. Always something acting up.
My next amp was a Marantz 1060 and I never had a problem. I still have it and am doing a cap. job on it now.
Paul
I have 3 old Audio mag's from 1955.
One has an article about building a EV patrician speaker.
I also have Hi-Fi Stereo review buyers issue from 1969, 1976, and other years. I also have an Audio buyers guide from 1996 and others.
I get a kick out of looking at all the old recvr's. and audio stuff that are so highly valued on ebay now.
The expectations about transistor was extreme up until the late 90's.
Then the bottom fell out. When Macintosh and other high end people went back to tubes, the handwriting was on the wall. Same for CD versus lp.
I don't have any tube stuff as I got my fill of the space heaters when I was younger. I built many Knight Kit stuff because it was cheap and boy was it a problem. I remember my biggest problem was tube pin arcing.
My last kit was a Fisher KX-100. It sounded good but never worked right. Always something acting up.
My next amp was a Marantz 1060 and I never had a problem. I still have it and am doing a cap. job on it now.
Paul
Wigwam Jones
Caesar non supra grammati
Nothing really changes. A long time ago, I used to collect old camera and photography magazines. You would be surprised how close the parallels are between audiophiles and photographers.
Back in the day, I read letters to the editor of long-gone photography magazines complaining that 35mm film was just a toy, a fad, for kids, and real photographers would always use 120 roll film, as God intended. Real film negatives are 6cm by 6cm!
They complained about every new format change. Every new color film that was introduced. Every change to a black-and-white film formula. Each one spelled the doom of all of photography due to the stupidity and greed of the manufacturers, who clearly wanted to kill their own products and hated all photographers. No, I am not joking (much). But yeah, lots of letters like that. Angry, angry people claiming that they could have their 4x5 large-format camera when they pried it from their cold, dead, hands. People who swore that if 35mm cameras became popular, they'd throw their cameras and then themselves in the nearest river.
When digital cameras first started to appear, I read the exact same nonsense. Oh, it's a catastrophe, it's the end of the world, woe is me, etc, etc.
Funny how the world never ends, but it's always the end of it when anything changes.
And all during this complaining and bellyaching, the magazines were expounding on the virtues of each new format, exclaiming over how wonderful they were and how in the future we'd all have film that developed itself (Polaroid and even better) and we'd have 3D and sound along with our still photos, and on and on. They could not pile enough praise on the same manufacturers that all the consumers were complaining bitterly about.
And then you look at audio. Hmmm. Same thing. The magazines love the advertisers and everything new. The consumers hate all things new and love all things old and it's the end of the world, and they're going to hurl their turntable and then themselves into the nearest river if the manufacturers don't stop making digital crap and if the magazines don't stop talking about it.
Fun times.
bergun
Well-Known Member
As for me, I have every issue of Stereo Review/Audio & Vision from 1980 to the present.
Before my last move in 2001, I had to lighten my load and tossed my collection of Audio, Video, Video Review, some Japanese audio/video magazines, tons of the U.S. military's PX catalogs and Off-Duty magazines, from the 80s, which had plenty of audio articles and ads... I wished I had kept them all.
Before my last move in 2001, I had to lighten my load and tossed my collection of Audio, Video, Video Review, some Japanese audio/video magazines, tons of the U.S. military's PX catalogs and Off-Duty magazines, from the 80s, which had plenty of audio articles and ads... I wished I had kept them all.