[Mitsuman]

Thought some of you may enjoy this, if it's a repost mea culpa, mea culpa. 

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?13795-Origins-of-high-Fidelity-in-first-Life-Magazine-article-on-the-subject-from-1953

[timind]

Don't know if it's a repost but it sure was an interesting read. I especially liked the glossary.

[TONEPUB]

great article....

[baldrick]

Halfway through the first paragraph:
"But nearly all of this money goes for equipment which produces characterless parodies of the original sounds it is supposed to reproduce."
Gee, in this age of crappy MP3 downloads and crappy players to play them it appears that the more things change the more they stay the same.