Mullard – The Blackburn Vacuum Tubes Factory
This great documentary about the manufacturing of thermionic valves was made by Mullard at the Blackburn factory in Great Britain. The plant was closed in the early ’80s due to the decrease in demand for this kind of device. The story begins in 1919 with the collapse...
The Thrill is Gone, Goodbye to the dynamic gentlemen of the blues.
In 1979 I was working for Fedco Audio Labs in Providence, RI. Fedco was a 24 track audio remote truck recording live concerts for release on vinyl. The truck had a 22-foot box that was converted to a control room with 2 MCI 24 track recorders, an API console serial...
There was a time when the only portable music for your car was an AM radio.
Just because you’re driving in your car, it doesn’t mean that you can’t take your hi-fi music with you. Here’s a Chrysler innovation: a phonograph for your car. In 1956 Chrysler teamed with CBS to create the “Highway Hi-Fi” an...
“SOLID MUSIC” Three-Dimensional Sounds Created
Like pictures on a screen, the best of public-address amplification and loudspeaker reproduction hitherto available has lacked reality. It is not that the instruments are defective in their reproduction of pitch and volume, but the ear is a fairly selective...
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