Um...er... is she wearing glasses? I'll have to look closer.and love those eye glasses)
Miles giving the Black Power fist for the staid New England company, AR. You can't make this stuff up! The company suits probably had no idea.Miles Davis uses AR3a...
X-tra push in the bass department works mighty fine with the Stockhausenian "Big Fun":Miles giving the Black Power fist for the staid New England company, AR. You can't make this stuff up! The company suits probably had no idea.
And Miles with his 3a's on the floor, in a corner. For that 'x-tra' push in the bass department.
The Marantz "Imperial" series were fairly popular when new -- and are held in no mean regard in some circles today. Not in my circle... but in some. Bart Locanthi was involved in some way(s) with the design of at least some of them, though -- so there is that.Those speaker grilles look familiar. Amazing how the memory works.
That "fire started on the first floor" Marantz ad is pretty awesome.Superscope-era Marantz had some hideous ones -- but ads that stick with us through the decades. I.e., I guess they were effective.
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This is literally the first of the type that I came across in a quick perusal at worldradiohistory.com There were tackier ones.
Of course, there was also this fairly effective ad from Superscope-era Marantz.
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Sort of from the John Cameron Swayze "Time for a new Timex" (or theSamsoniteAmerican Tourister luggage with gorillas) school of advertising.
You're not an old-school vinylista, then, I suppose.Pickering Audio? Never heard of them, but found this obit for Mr. Pickering that may interest some of you...
Phono Cartridge Pioneer Norman Pickering RIP
Norman C. Pickering, an audio pioneer who refined the phonograph cartridge and founded Pickering & Company in the 1940s, died on November 18 at his home in East Hampton, New York. He was 99. Pickering was an engineer, inventor, and musician who was best known for improving the sound of...www.soundandvision.com
The cassette player goes INTO the box she is carrying...This one from the early 70s seems historically interesting for a few reasons. First, is this "Sound Machine" the precursor to the boom box? Second, I was surprised to see that Bell & Howell did audio; from what little I know of them I thought they were more of a camera/movie projector company. That guy in the background... looks like he's holding some kind of audio component up to his hear. "Transistor radio" maybe? And then the gothic church seen in the distance is kinda weird for an American-made product. Perhaps this was an ad targeted to UK consumers or something...
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