Retro Hi-Fi Girl Friday

1938 ANS Russian Synth That Bridged Electronic Music And The Occult

This is retro weird from Russia 1938. Thanks for sending me this one Byron.

You don't play the ANS synthesizer with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed them into a machine that shines light through the etchings, trigging a wide range of tones. Etchings made low on the sheets make low tones. High etchings make high tones. The sound is generated in real-time and the tempo depends on how fast you insert the sheets.

This is a really cool article on this rediscovered artifact of the Russian Avant Garde movement of 1938. Superb.

http://boingboing.net/2012/06/27/synth.html#more-167732

A guy plays the ANS.


BBC Special on the ANS.

RCA LC1 System

This is very nice 4 LC1 speakers. I'd be happy with two so if anyone has spares send em to me lol....

Steampunk Headphone System

The craftsmanship in the steampunk community is really high. I wish the old cyberpunk movement had this momentum.

DYNAKIT MARK III AMP AND PREAMP Popular Electronics JULY 1958

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Hmmm Bjork picking through the jazz to hip hop sections....

Llyn Foulkes Horn Machine

I dig one man bands and Llyn Foulkes Horn Machine is very interesting. There are some better clips out on the interweb so if you dig this check em out.





http://llynfoulkes.com/

Holy HiFi Pimp Pad From The Seventies

This is definitely from the Super Seventies.... Zowee...

The Why's and Wherefore's of WATTS Popular Electronics Jan 1957

Double Your WE16 Fun

Ok one WE 16 is really freaking cool but two is just showing off.

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Don't cry sometimes RTR makes me sad too.

Steampunk Desktop System

Give A Women A Horn And She'll Mount It On Her Bicycle

This is really cool it looks like she took her creations to Burning Man Festival. These works currently reside in an art gallery in Austin. I hope to find them before I get there in September.

Make Your Own Arm Popular Electronics May 1958

Largest Loudspeaker Horn For Auditorium

Not sure what year this is but my guess would be 30's. Decent sized horn.

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Klipsch KP-650

I found these early Klipsch KP-650 brochures. Not sure what the story is on them but they look like a mock up. I've actually heard the modular KP650 and it is very good. I was surprised at how hifi they sounded for pro speakers. Would be a fun pair of speakers for the living room. WAF meter would be pegged.

Sato Horns

These are very interesting. If anyone has more info please share. They seem WE style but they don't curve enough.

AMPZILLA

Can't say I'm a fan of Ampzilla but I like the ad.

Gnod's World Of Music and Music Map

Music Map has been one of my favorite sites for years. The site looks unsophisticated but don't let the lack of bling fool you jump in and check it out. Great place to find new music or music similar to an artist you are interested in.

Excerpt from the site.

http://www.gnoosic.com/
Welcome to Gnod's world of music...
Even if you don't know what you are looking for - gnod will find it.

Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every day. Enjoy :o)


Or you can just go straight to the map and type in artists to see what comes up. I tried Renaldo And The Loaf.
http://www.music-map.com/



the music-map is
a part of gnoosic

gnoosic is a
part of gnod

gnod is a project
of marek gibney

At One Time New Stock

Woah! Never mind what may be in the crates just think how much original Western Electric crates would trade for on the old Ebay...

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