Links (analog style) and downloads
A Reading List For Audio Buffs
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
Subject: General Hi Fi Reference
The Complete Guide To High-End Audio, Robt. Harley
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
Subject: Turntables, Record Players
"Swiss Precision; The Story of the Thorens
TD124 and Other Classic Turntables"
Author: Joachim Bung
Deutsche Perfektion: The History of the Legendary EMT Turntables, Pasini http://www.stefanopasini.it/
Thorens articles online:
http://www.stefanopasini.it/images/Thor1215.pdf an informative Thorens history article by Stefano Pasini
Garrard articles online:
"Design Of Transcription Turntables" by E.W. Mortimer, Garrard Engineering Ltd.
http://home.earthlink.net/~transcrubbers/id18.html
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
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
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
Subject: Album Cover Art
Blue Note: Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff
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
Subject: General Fiction, somehow involving the Lp
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
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 Concertgoing Experience
The Music Lovers: A Harry Stoner Novel, Valin
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
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.