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A Reading List For Audio Buffs
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Above: Current audio book library.
Subject:
Recording history
From Tin Foil To Stereo - Evolution Of The
Phonograph, Oliver Read and Walter Welch
Playback: From the
Victrola to Mp3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money, Coleman
Off The Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in
America, Morton
45 RPM: The History, Heroes, and Villains of a
Pop Music Revolution, Dawson and Propes
45 RPM, Drate
The
Penguin Guide to Jazz, Cook - Morton
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Subject: General Hi Fi Reference
Acoustic Design for the Home
Studio, Mitch Gallagher
Get Better Sound, Jim Smith
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The
Complete Guide To High-End Audio, Robt. Harley (my copy, seen in some of these photos, is
2nd ed.) There are later editions to be found )
Master Handbook
of Acoustics, F. Alton Everest
Music, Physics and Engineering,
Harry F. Olson
Audio Reality, Rozenblit, Summers, Schiller
Audio and Hi-Fi Handbook, Sinclair
"Repairing Home Audio
systems: A Practical Guide to Stereo and Monophonic High-Fidelity
systems, Record Changers, Turntables, Portable Phonographs, Magnetic
Tape, Radio and Audio Servicing Course", Ecklund
1-2-3-4
Servicing Hi-Fi Turntables, Belt
Audio Cyclopedia, Tremaine
Reproduction of sound in High-Fidelity & Stereo Phonographs,
Villchur
Hi-Fi in the Home, Crabbe
The Search for Musical
Ecstasy, Rosenberg
Audio System Design And Installation, G.H.
Phillip Giddings
Handbook For Sound Engineers: The New Audio
Cyclopedia, Glen M. Ballou
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Subject:
Turntables and Record Player History
Swiss Precision: 3rd Edition is now
available
Joachim Bung: Swiss Precision
2019
-- Comprehensive German Language Edition
Two Volumes in Slipcase
Link to
info page and how to buy
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Swiss Precision 2nd Ed. by Joachim Bung
Review: (Link)
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Deutsche Perfektion: The History of the Legendary EMT Turntables, Pasini
Book Review here at The Analog Dept. -- LINK
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Thorens
articles online:
https://www.stefanopasini.it/images/Thor1215.pdf an
informative Thorens history article by Dr. Stefano Pasini
Garrard
articles online:
"Design Of Transcription Turntables" by E.W.
Mortimer, Garrard Engineering Ltd.
Link to article here within
the Garrard Gallery - note: to be found near page bottom)
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Subject:
Record Collecting References
Goldmine Record Album Price Guide,
Neeley, ISBN-10: 0896895327 ISBN-13: 978-0896895324 available in the US
The Rare Record Price Guide 2008 (Record Collector Magazine)
ISBN-10: 0953560151 ISBN-13: 978-0953260157 available in the UK
Living Stereo: The RCA Bible: a compendium of opinion on RCA living
stereo records, Jonathan Valin
The Canfield Guide to Classical
Recordings
Vinyl Junkies: Adventures In Record Collecting, Brett
Milano
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Subject: "in the recording studio"
books
33 1/3 series books, various authors. Each one covers one
record from rock history.
The Beatles, Bob Spitz (site
owner recommended as a good biography of The Beatles )
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The House
that Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records, Kahn
Here, There
and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles, Emerick,
Massey
Kind Of Blue -- The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece,
Kahn
The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock &
Roll, Cohen
Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios,
Clark, Cogan, Jones
Flowers In The Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and
Roll, 1947 - 1977, Miller
The Masters of Bebop; A Listener's
Guide, Ira Gitler
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Subject:
Album Cover
Art
Blue Note: Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff
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Blue
Note: The Album cover Art
In the Groove: Vintage Record Graphics
1940 - 1960
The Greatest Album Covers of All Time, Scott, Miles,
Morgan
Albums: The Stories Behind 50 Years of Great Recordings,
various contributors
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You die,
Dimery
The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove: The Complete Collection of
78rpm Artwork from the Legendary Record Changer Magazine, Deitch
Vixens of Vinyl: The Alluring Ladies of Vintage Album Covers, Darling
Naked Vinyl, O'Brien
For The Record: The Life and Work of
Alex Steinweiss, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz (note: Alex Steinweiss
invented the album cover in 1938)
This Ain't No Disco: New Wave
Album Covers, Trontz
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Subject:
General Fiction, somehow involving the Lp
High Fidelity, Nick
Hornby (also there is a movie
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time,
Sheffield
The Show I'll Never forget: 50 Writers Re-live Their
Most Memorable Concert going Experience
The Music Lovers: A Harry
Stoner Novel, Valin * ( ed. note: a good mystery, record
collectors, crime)
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Subject:
Loudspeakers
Loudspeakers An Anthology, J. Audio Engineering
Society, Vol. 1 and 2
Loudspeaker and Headphone Handbook, J.
Bowers, ed.
High Performance Loudspeakers, Martin Collums
Electrostatic Loudspeaker Design and Construction, Ronald Wagner
The Electrostatic Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, Roger Sanders
The
Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, Dickason
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Subject: Electronics (vacuum tube)
Radiotron Designers Handbook,
3rd and 4th ed
An Approach to Audio Frequency Amplifier Design,
GE Co. Ltd of England
Mullard Tube Circuits for Audio Amplifiers
Beginner's Guide to Tube Audio Design, Bruce Rozenblit
The
Tube Preamp Cookbook, Allen Wright
Tube Lore, Ludwell Sibley
RCA Tube Manuals
GE Tube Manuals
A note of appreciation for the fellow inmates at Audio
Asylum/Vinyl for offering most of the suggested titles in the list
above.