
A circa late 19th or early 20th century proto-jukebox. Listeners paid a nickel to hear music through ear tubes. From Sound and Hearing, Life Science Library, 1965.

An Audio Classics 9b stereo power amplifier, their tribute to the Marantz 9 mono amp. Courtesy of the Audio Classics collection.

How surreal is this? We’ll have what the cover artist is having. Audio Engineering, June 1953.


Heavenly listening, courtesy of the HMV Model E34C radiogram. From The Australian Women’s Weekly, June 1950.