Unusual HiFi products from the past.
Options
Comments
-
^^^ Home Theatre, baby!
-
-
-
You must have an impressive basement.
-
-
-
ahh, a wire recorder.
I remember that my paternal grandmother had one when I was a lad.
I presume my father had a hand in that
-
That reminds me (in basic concept, rather than media style) of the pair of devices used in the 1952 Joan Crawford noir "Sudden Fear".
"The dictation machines in Myra's office are a pair of SoundScribers. The machines were introduced in 1945 by The SoundScriber Corporation of New Haven, Connecticut. They normally recorded on six inch soft vinyl discs with a recording time of 15 minutes. The machines were popular for twenty years until compact cassette tapes came into use in the mid-1960s."
-
I'd love to hear one of these. -
-
-
-
^^^ like an early incarnation of the famous EMILAR "bowtie"!
-
Considering today's scatalogical leaning of audio component advertising I'm sure this would be offered under the banner: "For The Best In Sound, Take A Leak!"
-
Indeed.SeleniumFalcon wrote: »Considering today's scatalogical leaning of audio component advertising I'm sure this would be offered under the banner: "For The Best In Sound, Take A Leak!"
1) Wonder if they ever considered asking the late Richard Leakey or any other members of the esteemed Leakey family to be a brand representative?
2) the Leak brand's still around -- so, there is an opportunity for a strategic alliance with Jason Stoddard's company
-
Four speed....
Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 * -
Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
-
-
-
SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
FWIW -- this reminds me of Hermon Hosmer Scott's Dynaural noise suppression... umm... technology, which (at least according to Scott) was a breakthrough.
source: https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Archive-Audio-IDX/IDX/40s/Audio-1949-Oct-1-OCR-Page-0035.pdf#search="dynaural" -
From the articles I've read H.H. was the inventor of the circuit and Somerset was a licensee and manufacturer. They built the noise suppressor into one of their preamps.
-
-
SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
Above 15 khz it sounds like a cat with it's tail stuck in a chipper shredder.Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
Let's say a five day work week, give him weekends off. How many weeks, or years, would it take if mhardy showed us one treasure a day?
mhardy6647 wrote: »
Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 * -
since I just happened to dig this up yesterday for another purpose entirely, it seems like a good idea to share it here, too! Apologies if we've already had this product highlighted in this thread!
source: https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Archive-Audio-IDX/IDX/70s/Audio-1979-04-OCR-Page-0040.pdf#search="tdk cassette demagnetizer"
source: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/70s/Audio-1979-03.pdf
I had one of these (still do, in fact... someplace). My impression was that it worked (works) quite well to demagnetize the R/P head in a two-head deck. I don't know how good of a job (if any) it will do on the rest of the tape path. It probably works OK in a three head deck, since the "separate" R & P heads in a three-head cassette deck have to occupy the same form factor as the combined R/P head in order to be compatible with the design & construction of a cassette tape shell.
-
There have been several companies who have done the same thing for phono cartridges.
-
-
Stan
Main 2ch:
Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.
HT:
Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60
Other stuff:
Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601 -
-
https://youtu.be/T8OjlcJjSEE
