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Author: Robert Harley
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780978649302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 12 fact-filled chapters--covering everything from stereo to multichannel music to home theater--discover how to choose the best components for the money, how to match components fore the best sound, and how to set up and fine-tune a system for maximum performance.
Author: Gideon Schwartz
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2019-10-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714878089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beyond-cool look at the world of high-end audio design for passionate collectors, obsessive audiophiles, and design fans At a time when sales of vinyl records have hit a 25-year high, and analog technologies are providing the kind of extraordinary audio experiences that our increasingly digital world has started to remove, Hi-Fi is essential reading. This unique book explores just how, when, and why the world fell in love with the look, feel, and sound of top-of-the-line audio equipment. Hi-Fi traces this fascinating evolution from the 1950s to today (and tomorrow), taking readers right up to the current renaissance of all things analog and the emergence of cutting-edge designs for die-hard audiophiles.
Author: Janet Borgerson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0262536013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow record albums and their covers delivered mood music, lifestyle advice, global sounds, and travel tips to midcentury Americans who longed to be modern. The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack of albums by musicians like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, or Patti Page. It was just as likely to have had a selection of LPs from slightly different genres, with such titles as Cocktail Time, Music for a Chinese Dinner at Home, The Perfect Background Music for Your Home Movies, Honeymoon in Hawaii, Strings for a Space Age, or Cairo! The Music of Modern Egypt. The brilliantly hued, full-color cover art might show an ideal listener, an ideal living room, an ideal tourist in an exotic landscape—or even an ideal space traveler. In Designed for Hi-Fi Living, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder listen to and look at these vinyl LPs, scouring the cover art and the liner notes, and find that these albums offered a guide for aspirational Americans who yearned to be modern in postwar consumer culture. Borgerson and Schroeder examine the representations of modern life in a selection of midcentury record albums, discussing nearly 150 vintage album covers, reproduced in color—some featuring modern art or the work of famous designers and photographers. Offering a fascinating glimpse into the postwar imagination, the first part, “Home,” explores how the American home entered the frontlines of cold war debates and became an entertainment zone—a place to play music, mix drinks, and impress guests with displays of good taste. The second part, “Away,” considers albums featuring music, pictures, and tourist information that prepared Americans for the jet age as well as the space race.
Author: Timothy D Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1135206511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder and anxiety provoked by a technological revolution that began in the 1940s and gathers steam daily. Taylor discusses the ultural role of technology, its use in making music, and the inevitable concerns about "authenticity" that arise from electronic music. Informative and highly entertaining for both music fans and scholars, Strange Sounds is a provocative look at how we perform, listen to, and understand music today.
Author: Martin Roth
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2024-10-25
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1394248857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia’s best-selling guide for smart investing in the sharemarket When it’s time to invest your earnings, you need accurate, trusted guidance that will weather cycles, outlive fads, and stand the test of time. In this 31st edition of Top Stocks, market expert Martin Roth gives you the essential knowledge you need to grow your portfolio and profits. An invaluable resource for novices and professionals alike, Top Stocks 2025 shares the clear, objective information and tried-and-tested techniques you need to make right picks — and get more for your money. With well-defined criteria and rigorous analysis, you’ll form a clear picture of which companies offer low-risk, long-term value. You’ll see beyond the hype, the pricing, and the punditry. With Top Stocks 2025, you’ll become an expert at evaluating the best of the Australian sharemarket, using concrete factors like profitability, debt levels, and dividends. Detailed, unbiased analysis of the latest results from top Australian companies Comparative sales and profits data as well as in-depth ratio analysis Tables that rank all companies according to financial data Comprehensive research exploring each company’s overall outlook With numerous charts and tables that provide easy reference to essential company data points, Top Stocks 2025 is the jargon-free, up-to-date, go-to guide you need to make wise decisions for your wealth.
Author: David Blanke
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0739172190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of the free. At the same time, another national ideal emerged that was far less contentious, that arguably came to subsume the ideals of freedom, opportunity, and equality, and that eventually embodied an unspoken consensus about what constitutes the good society in a postmodern setting. This was the ideal of choice, broadly understood as the proposition that the good society provides individuals with the power to shape the contours of their lives in ways that suit their personal interests, idiosyncrasies, and tastes. By the closing decades of the century, Americans were widely agreed that theirs was--or at least should be--the land of choice. In A Destiny of Choice?, David Blanke and David Steigerwald bring together important scholarship on the tension between two leading interpretations of modern American consumer culture. That modern consumerism reflects the social, cultural, economic, and political changes that accompanied the country's transition from a local, producer economy dominated by limited choices and restricted credit to a national consumer marketplace based on the individual selection of mass-produced, mass-advertised, and mass-distributed goods. This debate is central to the economic difficulties seen in the United States today.
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Published: 1964-07-04
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
