Re: Audio Cyclopedia - A highly recommended book

The AC comes in three editions, of which the second is far and away the
most common. Unlike the RDH 4, whose price has come down a lot since it
was put up for free, legal download, it is still copyright in the US and
elsewhere so it can't be freely distributed. Furthermore, Tremaine's
family are apparently being prickish and refusing to allow reprint.
Apparently the publishers of "The New Audio Cyclopedia", wished to put a
pdf of both earlier editions in as a cd-rom with the new one and the
family were impossible to deal with.

CUT COPYRIGHT TERMS TO REASONABLE LENGTH!!!!!!!!

The AC is not primarily about domestic hi-fi and is, like a lot of the old
Audel's and Sams books, written in Q and A format. Nonetheless it is quite
informative as long as one does not expect to be fed and burped and
changed by a book, let alone one dating from 1969.


It is important to remember before slagging old tube equipment that it
was not built to mil spec and was not intended to hold up for 50+ years.
They did not realistically expect anyone in 2008 to give a flying
Philadelphia cream cheese about amplifiers made in 1958. That's true of
American, British, or German equipment, or any other. Whether Quad Leak or
Radford, marantz, McIntosh or Fisher, or Klangfilm or Siemens, it has in
fact held up better than anyone thought it would.

I have several military radios, a Collins S-Line ham receiver and a lot
of old test equipment that was built better, but it cost the price of a
house.

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