Vintage Audio Advertising

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Digital_Thor]

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Wait.... Woman on bike(one the earliest post' ), women on roller skates.... Where's the walking man.
Sorry bad joke

 

[Digital_Thor]

Well... KEF is still going strong with the curves and colours

 

[respice finem]

Clothes had to be sold to be able to buy it

 

[dr0ss]

My in-laws had Scott equipment, probably from the 60s. I never saw it, but after they passed we found the manuals in a box in their house.

 

[olds1959special]

Allied Knight Catalog 1959

 

[mhardy6647]

My in-laws had Scott equipment, probably from the 60s. I never saw it, but after they passed we found the manuals in a box in their house.

Over quite a few years (and even a couple of owners) they churned out some good consumer hifi equipment.

... and a few of their pieces were used by the pros, e.g., their redoubtable 4310 tuner, used for signal relay and monitor work in broadcasting. Not the only brand/model of tuner so employed, but a member of a small and high-achieving fraternity.

source:

ahem... since this is a "vintage audio advertising" thread... herewith, an ad:

source: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/A...s/Audio-1963-02.pdf#search="scott 4310 tuner"

 

[Mart68]

Does anyone else ever go on street view and look at what is now at the locations listed on these ancient adverts? Or is it just me?

This is the HH Scott address listed on the ad in the previous post.



Often they are suburban houses.

 

[mhardy6647]

I believe that's on the nice(r) side of Maynard, near Acton. Parts of Maynard are kind of -- run down, other parts are fairly nice.
If memory serves, Maynard is the smallest town, in terms of area, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Maynard, as I suspect many here know, was the long-time home of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

We lived none too far from Maynard, in Harvard, MA, for many years.

 

[dr0ss]

Over quite a few years (and even a couple of owners) they churned out some good consumer hifi equipment.

Not really surprised, my in-laws had excellent taste, and loved music (especially opera). Unfortunately, by the time I knew them the Scott equipment was gone so I couldn't see it first-hand.

 

[MarkHH]

Thanks to this post from @Shiva I stumbled upon this website with a plethora of old HiFi and broadcast magazines, this ad being from the July '72 edition of "Stereo Review":
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm

 

[MarkHH]

I do like this ad for loudspeakers called "Rectilinear III" for the simplistic approach - and for this questions: "What was the real break-through and who made it?"

From the forementioned July '72 edition of "Stereo Review"

 

[dr0ss]

My best friend in high school had Epicure speakers. They sounded really good. But his musical taste was mainly limited to Bob Dylan, so what even was the point?

 

[Mart68]

My best friend in high school had Epicure speakers. They sounded really good. But his musical taste was mainly limited to Bob Dylan, so what even was the point?

Could just have used a foghorn and two bin lids.

Actually I don't mind Dylan in small doses.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[mhardy6647]

They really did have a label on the PT that said QUALITY.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[mhardy6647]

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But, but... you missed the good ones! On the previous page...

[/I]Scan0030 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

The one on the right is essentially a 846B Valencia clone, albeit with a "Heathkit" crossover -- not necessarily a bad thing, since the XO of the Valencia was a bit of an Achilles' heel. Well, that, and the enclosure was (way) too small to extract all that the 416 woofer is capable of -- but putting an A7 or A5 Voice of the Theater cabinet in the living room wasn't most early-1970s homeowners' decor gameplan.
For them, however, Altec did make the A7 Magnificent for those folks!