BOOK: Hi-Fi: A Beginner's Guide to High Fidelity Audio Kindle Edition by Jack Borlock (Author)

New to Hi-Fi but feeling lost?

Hi-Fi can seem daunting when you discover it for the first time.

Why doesn't your turntable connect to your amplifier?

Do you need to buy a preamp?

What even is a preamp?

The goal of "Hi-Fi: A Beginner's Guide to High Fidelity Audio" is to answer those questions and much much more.

With it you'll be equipped to make the right choices when building your first audio setup.

You'll be soon rediscovering your favorite music in a way you've never imagined.

Here's a glimpse of what awaits you within the pages of "Hi-Fi":

• Clear explanations of Hi-Fi components
• Simple insights into how they work together
• Step-by-step guidance for setting up your system
• Easy maintenance tips to keep your audio pristine
• Straightforward troubleshooting guide
• Advice to upgrade your setup

The goal of this book is to give you a bird's-eye view of the Hi-Fi universe, minus the tech jargon: We believe in clarity without the unnecessary technical complexities, allowing you to focus on what truly matters – enjoying your music.

Don't let confusion or intimidation hold you back from experiencing the full potential of your music. Whether you're a dedicated audiophile or a newcomer eager to dive into the world of high-fidelity sound, "Hi-Fi" is your passport to audio nirvana.

Unlock the true essence of your music, and start your journey to audio excellence today.

Get your copy today and elevate your listening experience to new heights!

Print length: 117 pages, Language: English, Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe, Publication date: January 19, 2024.

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BOOK: Recording Secrets for the Small Studio (Sound On Sound Presents...) 2nd Edition by Mike Senior (Author)

In this new edition, discover how to achieve commercial-grade recordings, even in the smallest studios, by applying power-user techniques from the world’s most successful producers.

Recording Secrets for the Small Studio is based on the backroom strategies of more than 250 famous names. This thorough and down-to-earth guide leads you through a logical sequence of practical tasks to build your live-room skills progressively from the ground up, with user-friendly explanations that introduce technical concepts on a strictly need-to-know basis. On the way, you’ll unravel the mysteries of many specialist studio tactics and gain the confidence to tackle a full range of real-world recording situations.

Specifically designed for small-studio enthusiasts, this book provides an intensive training course for those who want a fast track to releasing quality results, while the chapter summaries, assignments, and extensive online resources are perfect for school and college use.

• Learn the fundamental principles of mic technique that you can apply in any recording scenario – and how to avoid those rookie mistakes that all too often compromise the sonics of lower-budget productions.

• Explore advanced techniques which help industry insiders maintain their competitive edge even under the most adverse conditions: creative phase manipulation, improvised acoustics tweaks, inventive monitoring workarounds, and subtle psychological tricks.

• Find out where you don’t need to spend money, as well as how to make a limited budget really count.

• Make the best use of limited equipment and session time, especially in situations where you’re engineering and producing single-handed.

• Pick up tricks and tips from celebrated engineers and producers across the stylistic spectrum, including Steve Albini, Neal Avron, Roy Thomas Baker, Joe Barresi, Howard Benson, Tchad Blake, T-Bone Burnett, Geoff Emerick, Brian Eno, Paul Epworth, Shawn Everett, Humberto Gatica, Imogen Heap, Ross Hogarth, Trevor Horn, Rodney Jerkins, Leslie Ann Jones, Eddie Kramer, Jacquire King, Daniel Lanois, Sylvia Massy, Alan Meyerson, Justin Niebank, Gary Paczosa, Tony Platt, Jack Joseph Puig, David Reitzas, Bob Rock, Laura Sisk, Fraser T Smith, Young Guru, and many more.

Now extensively expanded and updated, with new sections on contact mics, software instruments, squash mics, and ensemble depth distortion.

ISBN-10: 1032229551, ISBN-13: 78-1032229553, Edition: 2nd, Publication date: November 16, 2022.

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BOOK: Hi-fi Loudspeakers and Enclosures by Abraham B. Cohen (Author)

The book fully explains recent technical advances in stereo sound, including three-element stereo and the all-in-one enclosure. Comprehensive, practical format. To ensure complete understanding of hi-fi sound reproduction, step-by-step explanation of the entire acoustic chain is provided. By following the guidelines set forth in this volume, the audio buff will be able to recreate the music that best satisfies his individual listening tastes.

 Print length: 448 pages, Language: English, Publisher: Newnes-Butterworth, Publication date: November 1, 1975.

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BOOK: Make Your Hi-Fi Sound Like High-End: All The Tricks In The Book by James Garfield B.Sc. (Author)

Make Your Hi-Fi Sound Like High-End: All the Tricks in the Book, is the result of a long-time relationship and hands-on experience in the servicing and upgrading business of audio equipment over the past 20 years. As both an engineer and an audiophile, I have struggled at times with the fact that every component sounds slightly different, even if they all measure the same with conventional methods. If you are just beginning on your audio journey or if you are a seasoned audiophile, there is something for everyone to discover, rediscover and be amazed again at the marvelous sounds you will uncover from your sound system.

CHAPTER 1: WHAT’S POSSIBLE AND WHAT’S NOT
CHAPTER 2: WHERE NOT TO PUT YOUR MONEY
CHAPTER 3: SPEAKER CABLES, INTERCONNECTS AND POWER PLUGS
CHAPTER 4: SPEAKER CROSSOVER UPGRADE
CHAPTER 5: SPECIALIZED MEDIUM
CHAPTER 6: Hi-Fi COMPONENT UPGRADE
CHAPTER 7: RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER 8: COMMON MISTAKES & USEFUL TIPS
CHAPTER 9: FINAL THOUGHTS

Print length: 81 pages, Language: English, Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe, Publication date: May 28, 2021.

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BOOK: Audiophile's Guide: The Stereo (The Audiophile's Guide) by Paul McGowan

Unlock the secret to great stereo sound.Imagine building or improving your home stereo system in a way that makes your music come alive—like the performers are right in front of you—even on a budget. It’s easier than you think.Between the Audiophile’s Guide and its companion SACD (sold separately), PS Audio CEO and 45-year audio industry veteran Paul McGowan walks beginners and veterans alike through his easy-to-follow step-by-step secrets for creating amazing 3D sound from two speakers.Whether you’re new to high-end audio or a lifelong veteran, there’s something for everyone in this book and reference audio disc. Inside you'll find a rich history of 2-channel audio from its humble beginnings to its modern-day incarnation. For those readers new to high-end audio, the Guide covers what it means to be an Audiophile, how to listen, how to think about budgeting for a new system, and understanding the listening room as both friend and foe before wrapping up with a primer on choosing both electronics and speakers. More advanced audiophiles can skip ahead to the setup section where we learn the secret of getting the bass right, finding our perfect seating position, and then it is on to learning the art of wrangling three-dimensional audio from your 2-channel speakers. Following the basic setup process, the Guide delves deeper into the finer aspects of system tuning: making the speakers disappear, adjusting depth and soundstage, room tuning techniques, setting up a subwoofer, the importance of cables and AC power. The Guide is an essential component in any high-end audio system.Regardless of your system’s configuration—analog or digital, Paul shows you how to make magic happen in your listening room. The Audiophile’s Guide: The Stereo, along with its companion Reference Audio disc is the ultimate how-to instructional method for turning two-channel home music systems into magical reproduction chains. A must-have for any audiophile or lover of great sound. This instructional guide works for any level of 2-channel audio system, from the most humble to the most aspirational. The companion Reference Audio SACD (playable on all CD or DVD players) is available at https://www.psaudio.com/products/audiophile-reference-music/.

Book 1 of 3: The Audiophile's Guide, Print length: 212 pages, Language: English, Publication date: January 9, 2021.

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BOOK: Adventures In Hi-Fi: My Fifty Years In The Audio Business by Richard F. Colburn (Author)

An audio business lifer's look back at his career. Remembering the people and products that had a positive impact either on his life or the audio business in general. The book covers the exciting early days of the receiver wars of the 1970s, the birth of the high-end audio business, and the people and products that shaped the business as it is today. Too many people and products are being forgotten these days and the author wants to make sure that they are mentioned and honored.

Print length: 119 pages, Language: English, Publication date: July 20, 2022, Dimensions:  6 x 0.28 x 9 inches.

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BOOK: Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America (Mit Press) by Janet Borgerson (Author), Jonathan Schroeder (Author), Daniel Miller (Foreword)

How 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.

Print length: 440 pages, Language: English, Publisher: The MIT Press, Publication date: October 23, 2018.

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BOOK: In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution by Gillian G. Gaar (Author), Martin Popoff (Author), Richie Unterberger (Author), & 2 more

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first commercial LP with this authoritative, highly illustrated, and multi-faceted look at the history and culture of vinyl record collecting and turntables.

Vinyl records continue to be hot commodities among everyone from obsessive audiophiles to newbie collectors getting their toes wet. In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution is the book for both—and everyone in between. Published to mark the 75th year since the introduction of the commercial LP, In the Groove is written by a roster of well-known music journalists, vinyl junkies, and stereophiles teaming up to present a gorgeous tribute to the vinyl LP and the culture it has spawned:
 

• Richie Unterberger explores the history of the 33 1/3 LP, including its predecessor, the 78rpm record, the first commercial LPs, the pressing process, stereo vs. mono, and formats like the 7-inch/45rpm record.
• Gillian Gaar tackles those temples to the turntable: record stores. Inside, she examines the history of LP merchandising everywhere from department stores to headshops, Record Store Day, the artist in-store appearance, and swap meets and record shows.
• Martin Popoff pens a paean to the physical object itself, discussing the advent of the sleeve, the great LP covers, famous sleeve designers, liner notes and packaging, colored vinyl, and more.
• Matt Anniss looks at the collecting hobby and topics like obsessive collectors, what makes a great listening space, playing and caring for vinyl, collecting and vinyl in DJ and hip-hop cultures, and the mixtape phenomenon.
• Ken Micallef, a top hifi journalist, has the gearheads covered with explanations of turntables from portables to audiophile-quality units, the workings and parts of a turntable from motors and tonearms to plinths and cartridges, and the components of a system.

In the Groove is illustrated throughout with images of gear, listening spaces, record stores, sleeve art, and celebrities and musicians enjoying the vinyl hobby through the decades. Brief, entertaining sidebars cover topics like famous labels from Stax to Sub Pop, famous EPs, well-known record stores, milestone LP covers, a beginner’s guide to grading, and formats that have challenged the supremacy of the LP, including 8-track, reel-to-reel, and cassette.

Feel the groove with this effervescent ode to vinyl.

Print length: 192 pages, Language: English, Publisher: Motorbooks, Publication date: October 31, 2023.

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BOOK: Audio Erotica: Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s–1980s by Jonny Trunk (Author, Editor)

An archive of aural sensations past, teeming with rare and previously unpublished vintage hi-fi brochures

Remember roller-skating while wearing your first Walkman? Or relaxing to easy listening in your pure white Philips lounge? Or playing chess on your JVC tabletop radio? All these scenarios can be found in the geeky and rarefied world of the vintage hi-fi brochure, where graphic design and acoustic apparatus make magical music together.
From austere postwar Britain to poppy pre-millennium Japan, Audio Erotica presents a nostalgic nirvana of the strangest and most significant period hi-fi brochures. The volume acts as a companion title to the delightful Jonny Trunk/FUEL publication, Auto Erotica: A Grand Tour through Classic Car Brochures of the 1960s to 1980s and is manufactured in the same format. Alphabetically listed, from Aiwa to Zenith, with Braun, JVC Nivico, Nakamichi, Sony and everything in between, this book will resonate with any music fan.
Setting the tempo are the pipe-smoking, high-end separates (amplifiers, speakers, turntables) of the 1950s, followed by the swinging Dansette record players of the 1960s, the prog-brushed-metal music centers of the 1970s and the sleek capitalist cabinet stack systems of the 1980s―not forgetting the aerobic stereo sound portability facilitated by the boombox, and that final high-fidelity, hardware hurrah: the compact disc.
The evocative brochures in Audio Erotica track the technological development of audio equipment before the digital download, while simultaneously revealing the way hi-fi was marketed to the listening public. With knobs on. A striking screen-printed graphic cover on "brushed aluminum" paper echoes the hi-fi systems shown in the brochures.

Print length: 240 pages, Language: English, Publisher: FUEL, Publication date: April 16, 2024.

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BOOK: Revolution: The History of Turntable Design by Gideon Schwartz (Author)

As featured in Wallpaper*, The Wall Street Journal, Monocle, and New York Magazine’s, The Strategist

The design, history, and cultural impact of turntables and vinyl technology: the twin powerhouses of the 'vinyl revival' phenomenon

Interest in turntables and records is enjoying a renaissance as analog natives and new converts find their enduring style and extraordinary sound inimitable. Revolution, a follow-up to Phaidon's beloved Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design, explores the design and cultural impact of the turntable, the component at the center of the 'vinyl revival'. An essential book for audiophiles, collectors, and design fans, Revolution showcases the fascinating history of turntables and vinyl technology from the 1950s to today's cutting-edge designs.

Written by Schwartz, author of Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design, who is an audio design expert and passionate about analog music, this book includes 300 illustrations from the world of turntables, from affordable to high-end, and everything in between. An essential addition to the bookshelf for analog natives and those new to the vinyl revival as well as music and design lovers.

Print length: 264 pages, Language: English, Publisher: Phaidon Press, Publication date: October 19, 2022.

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BOOK: The Complete Guide to High-End Audio by Robert Harley (Author)

In this newly updated directory, the latest in cutting-edge audio equipment is provided, including how to choose the best audio equipment on a budget, how to get the best sound for the money, and how to set up a system for maximum performance. Revised and expanded to include all the latest audio technologies, this book is packed with expert advice how to make speakers sound up to 50 percent better at no cost, avoid the most common system set-up mistakes, and how to choose the one speaker in 50 worth owning. Among the new topics covered are streaming audio, computer-based music servers, music-management apps, wireless streaming, high-resolution digital audio. A short course on listening-room acoustics is presented and additional information on audio for home theater, multichannel audio, system set-up secrets, and what each component's specifications and measurements mean is also provided.

Print length: 592 pages, Language: English, Publisher: Acapella Publishing, Publication date: October 1, 2021.

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BOOK: Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design Hardcover by Gideon Schwartz

A 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.

Print length: 272 pages, Language: English, Publisher: Phaidon Press, Publication date: October 30, 2019.

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