Listen…. Okay it’s not a we555 but from an iPhone I’ll say not bad! All fun…
In the heart of Switzerland a 13Audio replica horn setup has been installed for what I can call a “very keen” listener “I” who is very happy playing mono even from stereo recordings, good man! I is also into his whiskey as I discovered when I opened the door behind the horns, does that help […]
Having good audio friends in Berlin and knowing their audio community is very active I had to post about Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929)…. This German-born American actually invented the flat disc “gramophone record”…we owe him so much! Now the Berlin will call themselves Berliners? All Fun…
Western electric 12a brackets all hand made as usual. All fun…
Tim, Do we know what equipment the first talkies shown in Europe used? If early Vitaphone films (independent disk + film) were shown, it may be that there were 12As imported to Europe for that purpose in which case 12As may have been heard in the 20s or early 30s in Britain and perhaps in continental Europe. An arcane subject, but you’d know better than me. Best, Mark
Mark,
Need to investigate this side. Seems that sound cinema reached the UK circa 1928 so that would nt have been 12a and 13a.