Hi.
I recently discovered this website https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm where almost all journals of Speaker Builder magazine are available for download in PDF format.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Speaker-Builder.htm
Only 18 issues are missing from the 124 issues published in total between 1980 and 2000.
The 18 missing issues are marked in red in the attached image.
Regards.
I recently discovered this website https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm where almost all journals of Speaker Builder magazine are available for download in PDF format.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Speaker-Builder.htm
Only 18 issues are missing from the 124 issues published in total between 1980 and 2000.
The 18 missing issues are marked in red in the attached image.
Regards.
Yes, Bill- what a gem!
and Speaker Builder magazine, too.
Looky here:
Trade & Dealer Magazine published by Thomas Edison himself
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Edison-Phonograph.htm
and Speaker Builder magazine, too.
Looky here:
Trade & Dealer Magazine published by Thomas Edison himself
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Edison-Phonograph.htm
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Hi, seems the link is now dead. Is it possible to get a copy of the archive or a few issues?
Cheers, Dean.
Cheers, Dean.
Good to know MrKiky. That made me think that maybe my ISP was, for reasons unfathomable, blocking the link. I switched to my mobile provider and hey presto, the archive exists. Many thanks.
Thankyou for this link…it worked for me. I hope it stays live because its a huge amount of valuable resources!
What a great find! I was wondering if Speaker Builder magazine still existed and so I did a search and found this page. I subscribed for a few years back in the late 80's, and it was the most informative source I ever ran across.
I downloaded all the pdf files available, 561MB to be exact.
The excellent part is that the linked page has a search query that will find a specific result across all of those pdf files! 😎
I downloaded all the pdf files available, 561MB to be exact.
The excellent part is that the linked page has a search query that will find a specific result across all of those pdf files! 😎
Many years ago I got a bit 'freaked out' about moving to a smaller house with all my equipment and I threw away a huge quantity of
Electronics & HiFi publications > I now regret this 🙁
Electronics & HiFi publications > I now regret this 🙁
The SHOCK WAVE ads are too much! Here's a link to the proprietary super secret plans for the curious. https://www.toolandhobby.com/website/pages/audio-electronics/shockwave/download/Shockwave_manual.pdf
I'm so glad I didn't buy a set of "the rarest of audio secrets, the secret of the century revealed in a limited-edition manual of only 500 copies personally signed by David Lucas".
I'm so glad I didn't buy a set of "the rarest of audio secrets, the secret of the century revealed in a limited-edition manual of only 500 copies personally signed by David Lucas".
Wow, the SHOCKWAVE, I always wondered what this was about. "We cannot be held responsible for any vibrational damage done to your home or contents".
😆 A lot of what seems like contradictory statements and strange ideas about how cancellation would actually work. Is the jist of this just to have 5 ESLs, each sitting an inch or so in front of the previous one, with some magic foams doing spacing or damping or whatever? I'd love to see evidence of anyone ever making this thing or for that matter measuring it.
edit -- "Sales Manager Tim Kelly". Wow, does that name bring back memories (I always wondered whether "David Lucas" was actually Tim Kelly). I bought an ESL kit from Lucas some 30 years back and built it in my strange curved array scheme. It played. I doubt the directions were anything I couldn't have gotten somewhere else, also a lot of 'build it your way' words that seemed to evade giving actual steps... Heathkit it was not.
😆 A lot of what seems like contradictory statements and strange ideas about how cancellation would actually work. Is the jist of this just to have 5 ESLs, each sitting an inch or so in front of the previous one, with some magic foams doing spacing or damping or whatever? I'd love to see evidence of anyone ever making this thing or for that matter measuring it.
edit -- "Sales Manager Tim Kelly". Wow, does that name bring back memories (I always wondered whether "David Lucas" was actually Tim Kelly). I bought an ESL kit from Lucas some 30 years back and built it in my strange curved array scheme. It played. I doubt the directions were anything I couldn't have gotten somewhere else, also a lot of 'build it your way' words that seemed to evade giving actual steps... Heathkit it was not.
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