by James | Jun 3, 2017 | History, Home Audio, Pro Audio, Vintage
This post is more for fun Nostalgia than a long explanation and history of DUAL turntables. Chances are if you grew up in the 70’s, 80’s and even the 90’s you either owned one or had family and friends that did. Not having a turntable back then was a...
by James | Jun 1, 2017 | History, Home Audio, Infographic
Did you know that Thomas Edison was the first person to record the human voice, and that the recording could only be played back once? Or did you know that the first “Record Player” was called a “Gramophone”? What about the fact that it...
by James | May 21, 2017 | Diagrams, History, Infographic
1910 – Nataniel Baldwin invented the headphones in his kitchen and later sold them to the United States Navy. 1949 – AKG introduces a comfortable Space Age Design as they release the classic K120’s. 1968 – Koss introduces the st U.S....
by James | Mar 7, 2017 | History, Infographic
It might be obvious that I have a fascination with Headphones, probably because I’ve been using them since I was a kid and my discovery or tape recorders to listening to my favorite albums. I realized how handy they were for quietly practicing my guitar and my...
by James | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured, History, Infographic
In 1877 Thomas Edison changes history when he plays “Mary’s Little Lamb” with tinfoil wrapped around a rotating cylinder. It was the birth of the Phonograph. 10 years later Emile Berliner patents the gramophone, a flat-disc invention making multiple duplication...
