Words somehow feel inadequate right now re trying to sum up the life of the man (1) who helped define subjective audio reviewing, who gave us both the methodology and terms to do so and a rich vocabulary to help express what Harry heard. Those words and methodology filtered out to the wider audio […]
Introduction My involvement with music and audio goes back some 45 years. In those early days I could not afford to buy ready-made equipment (save, obviously, a record deck and cartridge) and had to build my own amplifier and speakers. However I read the audio press of the time (which were a better read […]
Being reminded once again of the Decca ‘magic’ – the Decca Mk. VI cartridge revisited. Having been granted a special exeat from the Alan Dowker Blumlein retirement home for distinguished audio components, the Decca cartridge was allowed out for good behaviour. I was interested in re-visiting the Decca design and the following notes and observations apply […]
A Short History of Early Ortofon Pick-Up Cartridges Research by Barry.D.Hunt History The Ortofon company started life as ‘Fonofilm A/S’, founded in 1918 in Copenhagen by Arnold Poulson and Axel Peterson [1], initially manufacturing equipment for the film industry. There were many groups around the world, noteably in America and Europe, all working on the […]
. Its hard to imagine a time when both FM broadcasting and Stereo radio did not exist (and as the proposed analogue switch off is breathing down FMs neck this may be the case again), but back in the 1950’s that was the case. Many audio and radio enthusiasts waited for the first FM radio […]