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Mocking audiophiles back in 1959

Jaimo

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Love the closing line. “I don’t really care for music much- it’s the (a) high fidelity”

amazing insights from the beginnings of hi-fi
 

mhardy6647

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... and here I was expecting...

http://www.hifilit.com/Mad/Mad.htm

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(albeit this is from 1958)

:oops:
 

mhardy6647

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speaking of mocking audiophiles...

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A little careful perusal of the World Wide Web might just turn up a complete PDF copy.
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Alobar

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Why is the spindle so dang tall?
I guess clearance for the tone arm.. I used to stack as many 45's on top as I could (borrowed from my older brothers collection) and it would play them all. My guess is that tone arm must have to raise pretty high to clear a stack of 7 or 10 records.. I was only 5 or so, can't fully remember how many it would hold!
 

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I don't think this ever got posted here -- now seems like a good time.


My father was a broadcast engineer in Baltimore, MD in the mid/late 1950s. Not coincidentally, I have an original 45 rpm copy of this down in the basement. :)
 
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