From the BBC Archive: 1959: The AUDIOPHILE's Quest for PERFECT SOUND

[Kr2d2]

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1959: The AUDIOPHILE's Quest for PERFECT SOUND | BBC Archive

"Do they like music? Or are they in love with equipment?"
"Is it a religion or a disease?"

Very amusing & a nice overview of everything about music (re)production over 65 years ago!
And interesting to see what has changed (record shops!!), and what is still the same (do you recognise yourself?).
The view into a shop where you can see QUAD ESL 57 on display is also very nice.

Vinyl & tube fans will love the good old times!

Plus subtle English humour!

 

[Mart68]

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1959: The AUDIOPHILE's Quest for PERFECT SOUND | BBC Archive

"Do they like music? Or are they in love with equipment?"
"Is it a religion or a disease?"

Very amusing & a nice overview of everything about music (re)production over 65 years ago!
And interesting to see what has changed (record shops!!), and what is still the same (do you recognise yourself?).
The view into a shop where you can see QUAD ESL 57 on display is also very nice.

Vinyl & tube fans will love the good old times!

Plus subtle English humour!

I liked the bit where stereo is introduced and all his old tube stuff is shown sat in the dustbin by the front gate.

Not sure record shops were ever really like that except for the one featured, although my earliest memories of them are from about 15 years later than that film. The more traditional ones did still have big sheet music sections back then though.

 

[jdg78]

Fun. That probably would have been me if I were alive in 1959.

Although on balance I prefer the convenience and availability of streaming (not to mention the cost savings), I do still miss the old days of record stores and the whole ritual of shifting through bins of albums on the hunt for the next acquisition. Many happy memories.

 

[antcollinet]

Oh well of course that that is no good to you at all You must have one of these better class units which has ultra linear output stages The distortion factor on it is very very low indeed somewhere in the region of 0.1 1% at 10 watt output

Wow - as low as that


But this was interesting.

Of images larger than life of machines more sensitive than the ears they play to

See, they knew the goal 66 years ago. What the hell happened since then?

 

[ernestcarl]

"Is it a religion or a disease?"

Hilarious!

 

[kyuu]

"Is it a religion or a disease?"

Yes.

 

[DWPress]

Actually watched this last night, couldn't resist. The upselling clerk, crowding into the sweet spot, record store from another world - hilarious!

 

[NoteMakoti]

It's funny to think they were doing this to themselves over stuff that would be outclassed by bluetooth speakers and spotify nowadays.

 

[Kr2d2]

It's funny to think they were doing this to themselves over stuff that would be outclassed by bluetooth speakers and spotify nowadays.

You may call me oĺdfashioned - and I am! ... but I think my QUAD ESL57 electrostatic loudspeakers (named that way because designed around 1957) are not at all outclassed by any Bluetooth speaker that I know of!
The ESL57 can be seen in the shop scene starting around 14:53