hifi

John- Retired? I wish! Although I have experience in the retail audio business, I never owned a store. Most of this came from a collection I picked up last year. The "collector" was a semi-profesonal recording engineer in the 1950's. He was neurotic about paper and never threw anything out. He would write letters to manufacturers asking for info. (I have one binder just of mfr's replies, all on company stationery.) He would go to all the hifi shows ("Audio Fairs"in those days) and bring home literature. Not only would he write the date on things, he also kept everything in great condition. In addition to the hifi lit, I have a lot of early pro literature which I will list after I complete the hifi. Phase two will be Ampex, Magnecord, Telefunken, Neumann, RCA, GE Broadcast, Western Electric, Studer and others. Phase three will be back to hifi. I intend to scan ads form the High Fidelity magazines from the 1950's, as well as all the Audio Engineering/Audio from 1947 to 1963, the first years of Hi-Fi/Stereo review and some magazines you might not have heard of - Hi-Fi Music At Home, Audiocraft, and something called Modern Hi-Fi. I might even list the covers and index pages from somwe of the magazines. One thing I am anxious to get to is a page of Vintage Extrme Systems, the kind with built in horns in the basemment, early bi-amped and tri-amped systems, or anything over the top like that. Audio featured a lot of these on their covers. I just put up soem E-V catalogs. http://hifilit.com/hifilit/Electro-Voice/Electro-Voice.htm

I managed to get some brochures up. http://www.hifilit.com/hifilit/Klipsch/Klipsch.htm I have some price sheets to go along with these, which I'll post soon, I hope...

So, I bit the bullet and set up a web page to share my hifi "literature". So far, only the Stephens, Marantz and Fisher logos are links. Main page is http://hifilit.com. I'll work onthe Klipsch info later this week - this stuff is a real time vampire.

Okay, last time - http://dair.pair.com/hifi/ephemera/trusonicprices.jpg (This is why I don't have a web site - I can't pour bytes out of a boot with the directions on the heel.)

Duh - http://dair.pair.com/hifi/ephemera/trusonics.jpg

Here's a page from a 1958 Stephens brochure. (254kb, 200dpi) http://dair.pair.com/hifi/ephemera/trusonics.jpg And here's the price sheet - (85kb, 96dpi) http://dair.pair.com/hifi/ephemera/trusonics.jpg

Here's a University ad (499kb), showing the Classic. I'll look a little further, but I think you could order it lowboy (horizontal) or tallboy (vertical). http://dair.pair.com/hifi/university.jpg

Textf> And when you're finished it should look like this... http://dair.pair.com/hifi/Uniclasfam.jpg

Textf> You guys inspired me to donate a scan of the plans for the Classic. I scanned it 200dpi. otherwise the text would have been fuzzy. It's 322kb, and should measure 8.5" x 11". http://dair.pair.com/hifi/uniclasplans.jpg

Textf> I picked up a pair of used Quartets the other day and one of the woofers is blown. I'm looking for a single K-10K, or some help on finding a substitute. I called Klipsch and was told these drivers are unavailable. They may have one in four or five months - it would be for a new HT speaker, and the specs will be the same. I'm way too compulsive to wait four months, so if anyone can help I'd be your grateful.