Vintage Whine

    Vintage WhineIssue 62

    Electric City

    So: what does a professional audio nerd do on a…
    Vintage WhineIssue 73

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 8

    In earlier installments of this series, we’ve focused upon the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 72

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 7

    We’ve looked at a variety of methods of making music—or…
    Vintage WhineIssue 71

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 6

    As we know from old issues of Popular Science and…
    Vintage WhineIssue 70

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 5

    In our last installment, we saw the beginning of  the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 68

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 4

    In our last installment, we looked at the range of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 67

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 3

    It’s difficult to explain the basics of a highly-technical process…
    Vintage WhineIssue 66

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 2

    In his last column, Jay Jay French mentioned the optical…
    Vintage WhineIssue 65

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 1

    I’ve spent half a century immersing myself in the history…
    Vintage WhineIssue 64

    What Will Be “Vintage” in 2068?

    As I’ve discussed/ranted many times in this column, to me,…
    Vintage WhineIssue 63

    “New Old”?

    The first time I heard the word “oxymoron,” I thought…
    Vintage WhineIssue 74

    50 Ways to Read a Record Part 9

    In Copper #73 we discussed an interesting but purely theoretical …
    Vintage WhineIssue 61

    What’s a Speaker? And What’s a Driver?

    You know how annoying it is when you’re surrounded by…
    Vintage WhineIssue 60

    The More Things Change….

    Oh, you think you’re so smart, Mr. 21st Century Hi-Tech…
    Vintage WhineIssue 59

    Nagra

    The history of Nagra begins, as is often the case…
    Vintage WhineIssue 58

    Hadley Labs

    At Axpona a few weeks ago, friend and mentor Richard…
    Vintage WhineIssue 57

    More Stuff About Old Stuff

    Within the span of a couple weeks, I went from…
    Vintage WhineIssue 55

    Vintage Voltage: A Photo Feature

    Researching and writing theoretical and historical pieces is a lot…
    Vintage WhineIssue 56

    What’s Past Is Prologue

    The older I get—and at this point, I’m as old…
    Vintage WhineIssue 54

    Speakers Are Exhausting

    “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”…
    Vintage WhineIssue 53

    A Serious Hobbyist

    In Copper #52 we began poring through a collection of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 87

    Empire, Part 3

    [Previous installments on Empire were in Copper #84 and #86—Ed.]…
    Vintage WhineIssue 96

    Drive, He Said Part 5

    In Part 4 of this series, the last turntable mentioned was…
    Vintage WhineIssue 95

    Drive, He Said Part 4

    In previous installments of Vintage Whine, we’ve looked at belt-drive…
    Vintage WhineIssue 94

    Drive, He Said Part 3

    Part 1 of this series in Copper #92 covered idler-drive…
    Vintage WhineIssue 93

    Drive, He Said Part 2

    In Part 1, Copper #92, we looked at idler-wheel turntable mechanisms.…
    Vintage WhineIssue 92

    Drive, He Said Part 1

    Vintage Whine has previously looked at the micro-mechanics of record…
    Vintage WhineIssue 91

    Paper

    It’s everywhere. We take it for granted, blow our noses…
    Vintage WhineIssue 89

    Fairchild, Part 5

    We’ve spent a fair amount of time and pixels on…
    Vintage WhineIssue 90

    Quintessence

    Sometimes you encounter stories where it turns out that the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 88

    The Fire

    I’m going to deviate from the standard Vintage Whine topics…
    Vintage WhineIssue 52

    The Mysterious Binder

    I wrote about ephemera back in Copper #37. In that…
    Vintage WhineIssue 86

    Empire, Part 2

    Our first installment on Empire mentioned the beginnings of the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 84

    Empire, Part 1

    The primary reason I began writing these articles (and a…
    Vintage WhineIssue 82

    Fairchild: Sidebar

    As I indicated in my first installment on Fairchild, back…
    Vintage WhineIssue 80

    Vintage, Vintage Whine

    There was a time in my life, not so long…
    Vintage WhineIssue 79

    New Old Stock

    Newbies to the audio world encounter a lot of puzzling…
    Vintage WhineIssue 78

    Fairchild, Part 4

    The last three Vintage Whine columns have looked at the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 77

    Fairchild, Part 3

    As I’ve indicated in the previous installments of Vintage Whine…
    Vintage WhineIssue 76

    Fairchild, Part 2

    In Copper #75, we began the story of the remarkable…
    Vintage WhineIssue 75

    Fairchild, Part 1

    I truly enjoy the research involved in these pieces, refreshing…
    Vintage WhineIssue 20

    Weathers

    There are some brands whose influence extends far beyond their…
    Vintage WhineIssue 30

    Kits!

    It’s often said that we don’t build anything in America…
    Vintage WhineIssue 29

    The Old Ways

    There is a certain pleasure to be found in driving…
    Vintage WhineIssue 28

    Spica, Part 3

    [We started our look back at speaker manufacturer Spica in…
    Vintage WhineIssue 27

    Spica, Part 2

    In the last issue of Copper we briefly looked at loudspeaker…
    Vintage WhineIssue 26

    Spica

    There are some brands that linger in the memory with…
    Vintage WhineIssue 25

    Quads: 60 Years Young

    For at least as long as I’ve been aware of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 24

    The Original QUAD ESL

    The first question that will probably come to mind is,…
    Vintage WhineIssue 23

    Everything You Ever Wanted

    In last issue’s Vintage Whine  I ran through my personal list…
    Vintage WhineIssue 22

    All I Want For….

    If you could ask for one piece of vintage gear…
    Vintage WhineIssue 21

    Weathers, Part 2

    In the last issue , we discussed the initial appearance…
    Vintage WhineIssue 31

    The Mother Of All Speakers (MOAS)

    I had begun writing a piece about the history of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 19

    Mass, Massive, Massless

    I’m fascinated by materials, which I ascribe to a childhood…
    Vintage WhineIssue 18

    The Once and Future Tweeter

    Back in the day, I had many an asthma attack…
    Vintage WhineIssue 17

    VPI: 38 Years and Counting

    Harry Pearson, founder of The Absolute Sound, contributed to the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 16

    Versa Dynamics

    Every now and then a new company appears in the…
    Vintage WhineIssue 15

    Where Are They Now?

    For anyone who has been around audio for any length…
    Vintage WhineIssue 14

    Are We Keeping Up? (With Inflation)

    This issue we’re going to take a slight detour from…
    Vintage WhineIssue 13

    Stan White: An Overlooked Visionary/Part 2

    A fundamental principle of scientific enquiry was stated most famously…
    Vintage WhineIssue 1

    What Is Vintage?

    What’s wine got to do with us? As is often…
    Vintage WhineIssue 11

    Jensen: The Man, the Company, Conclusion

    In Parts 1 and 2 we discussed Peter Jensen’s journey…
    Vintage WhineIssue 41

    Bang & Olufsen, Part 2

    Continuing from Part 1 , we’ll look at more legacy Bang…
    Vintage WhineIssue 51

    15,000 Pages!

    I started reading when I was 3. I say that…
    Vintage WhineIssue 50

    Equal Time

    In Copper #48 I began the perusal of a hefty…
    Vintage WhineIssue 49

    Editor’s Choice

    No, not this Editor. Continuing from my last column, inspired…
    Vintage WhineIssue 47

    Fractured

    While sight-seeing around the uncommonly-empty campus of the University of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 46

    Is Older Always Better?

    My daughter Emily has a habit of being brutally frank,…
    Vintage WhineIssue 45

    Materials Science

    I’ve danced around this subject before, with my discussions of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 44

    Stereo at Sixty

    We’ve heard a lot about anniversaries in 2017, with it…
    Vintage WhineIssue 43

    Tone Control (or lack of it)

    I’ve previously mourned the death of tone in modern audio…
    Vintage WhineIssue 42

    Wood

    Back in Copper #31, I wrote about the subject of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 12

    Stan White: Visionary? Or…?

    This column is different from previous installments of Vintage Whine,…
    Vintage WhineIssue 40

    Bang & Olufsen, Part 1

    In 2013 I was fortunate to have a consulting gig…
    Vintage WhineIssue 39

    Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be

    I’ve previously mentioned audio icon Henry Kloss’ time at AR…
    Vintage WhineIssue 38

    Torture

    Audiophiles are experts at self-torture: “Is the VTA just a…
    Vintage WhineIssue 37

    Ephemera

    Back in the ’70’s, Ron Gilbrech, then a salesman at…
    Vintage WhineIssue 36

    Horns, Part 5

    In response to last issue’s installment, a reader quite accurately…
    Vintage WhineIssue 35

    Horns, Part 4

    We wrapped up our last installment with the end of World…
    Vintage WhineIssue 34

    Horns, Part 3

    In our last issue we concluded with a mention of…
    Vintage WhineIssue 33

    Horns, Part 2

    In our last issue we looked at the historical and…
    Vintage WhineIssue 32

    Horns!

    If there’s a more contentious topic in audio than that…
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