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Up for auction and fresh to the market (with FREE domestic shipping -including Insurance and Signature Confirmation) are Volume Two, Number 1 thru Volume Two, Number 6? These early magazines are issues No. 13 thru 18. I believe that these are the last six issues of the large cover format (8 1/2" x 11") magazine titled "the stereophile" "For the High-Fidelity Stereo Perfectionist", however there might be a No. 19 issue in this large format as the smaller digest format began with issue No. 20. As you probably know, the sequencing of these six issues is a bit confusing as they are designated in different ways from the first twelve issues, which were clearly designated on the cover Volumes 1-12. The 13th issue is designated on the cover "Summer 1966" while the inside front cover reads "Summer (#2) 1966". The 14th issue is designated on the cover "Autumn 1966" while the inside front cover reads "Autumn (#3) 1966". The 15th issue is designated on the cover "Winter (4) 1966" while the inside front cover reads "Winter (#4) 1966". The 16th issue is designated on the cover "Spring-Summer (1) 1967" while the inside front cover reads "Spring-Summer (#1) 1967". The 17th issue is designated on the cover "Summer-Autumn (2) 1967" while the inside front cover reads "Summer-Autumn (#2) 1967". The 18th issue is designated on the cover "Autumn-Winter 1967" while the inside front cover reads "Autumn/Winter (#3 4) 1967". The inside front cover also states that the magazine is "published four times a year". This publisher is J. Gordon Holt. As you can see from the mailing label these are original issue magazines from the period.
If you are looking at this auction there is no need to describe the contents of the magazine as this publication has always been one of the premier publications for the Hi-Fi enthusiast. Please excuse the glare on the pics as the covers are rather dark for exposure and I used a bit too much light and at the wrong angle. The actual color or shade of the covers can be viewed with the scans supplied in the last few pics (entire cover does not quite fit into my scanner bed). In these few scans are the most worn cover, front and back, to best show the worst of the wear (I do not like customers to be dissapointed or surprised) as the other mags are in good solid condition. If you have any questions or concerns I would be glad to assist in any way that I can. I can also send additional pics and scans, via e-mail, if desired.
These magazines are fresh goods to the market as I recently purchased these, and many others, from the original owner's daughter. This man was a Canadian Artist with many varied interests. In the coming week or so I will be offering his entire collection of vintage, 1950's thru the 1960's, stereo magazines in different auctions. His collection includes the first run of "Stereophile", as well as many others. Other magazines included in his collection include the "Hi-Fi Music at Home", "Audio Engineering", "Audio", "High Fidelity", "HiFi Stereo Review" and a few "Stereo Review". Many of these include complete years of 12 issues. Be sure to check back often as I am a bit slow in listing items.
As you can see in the pics the magazines are in good (solid) used condition to well used condition. This gentleman took great care of his reference library and looks to have referenced the collection frequently. As you can see in the pics the mags were apparently folded, vertically, in half when delivered although, as these mags have been in large stacks for many a year the creased mags still lies quite flat. Some mags are more heavily creased than others and the "Autumn-Winter 1967 Special Double Issue" does not appear to have been folded. The "Winter 1966" and the "Spring-Summer 1967" covers show the most wear with the latter have small pieces of quality archival tape to the back cover. One other mag has a small piece of that same tape at the bottom of the spine. The cover of the "Special Double Issue" has a bit of spotting, mostly to the lower right corner area. Apparently the original owner did not appreciate the unusual sequencing so he made notes, in red ink, to the inside front covers sequencing them as ""Vol. 2, No.1", etc., etc. And lastly the original owner had made just a few marks with his red pen such as underlining a word or phrase and would occasionally place a check mark next to an article, probably when he had finished reading that particular article. With that said these remain sound solid issues sutible for any reference library.
I always go the extra mile to insure that the items I ship are well packaged as this helps assure safe delivery. These vintage mags will be shipped, via Insured Parcel Post in a sturdy shipping box. I will also include Signature Confirmation so that the package will not be left unattended on your doorstep.
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Thanks for looking from DAVID of threeys
Not being an expert in this field I thought that I would include some info that I found on the net. With the first issue, Vol. 1 No. 1, "Ye Editor Publisher" J. Gordon Holt introduced two things, a new style of audio magazine and the philosophy that an audio product can only be reviewed by doing exactly what the purchasers will do: listen to it. On that foundation of an idea was founded not only Stereophile magazine, but the entire high-end audio industry. Following is J. Gordon Holt's description of the events that led up to the founding of Stereophile:
"Many years ago—in 1945, to be exact—I was required to take a music-appreciation course at a private school I was attending in Melbourne, Australia. The approach was, of course, a historical one, so like most of my classmates I sat with total indifference through the playing of excerpts from Gregorian chant through Baroque to early Romantic, via a truly magnificent phonograph and record collection donated to the school by the Carnegie Foundation. Not until the Prelude to Act III of Wagner's Lohengrin was I stirred from my apathy, and I was so stirred I bought my own recording of it, to play on a little wind-up acoustic Victrola. Somehow, it didn't sound quite the same, and I was determined to find out why. And that is how, in one fell swoop, I became hooked on both classical music and high fidelity.
"Since audio was technical, I chose to go to an engineering university—Lehigh U.—but soon learned that engineering was math, for which I had no talent. So I went for a journalism degree, for which one course required that I write magazine articles. I wrote about audio, and sold two pieces to High Fidelity, ultimately accepting a job there as 'Audio Editor.' My function: testing and reporting on components. That was my introduction to the 'commercial' side of Big Publishing.
"I watched, first with incredulity and then with growing disgust, how the purchase of a year's advertising contract could virtually insure a manufacturer against publication of an unfavorable report. Critical reports were either watered-down to minimize the critical comment, or were simply suppressed when it proved impossible to express in an 'acceptable' manner the fact that we were unable to test something because all three samples submitted to us had blown up when we switched them on.
"I managed to live with this crap for five years, after which I quit HF and went to work for one of the hi-fi industry's genuine geniuses, Paul Weathers, who is still best known as the inventor of the first commercially made FM phono pickup. The stereo version of that never came to pass, but Weathers did produce a ceramic stereo pickup that managed somehow to wipe out all of the competition. It was when we started submitting that pickup to the hi-fi magazines that I got to see the other side of the commercial-publishing coin.
"The Weathers Professional Stereo pickup outperformed everything else on the market for a period of about four years after its introduction, but it was never given any recognition for this superiority by any hi-fi magazine. In other words, not only were the Big Advertisers' products immune from serious criticism, they were also shielded from the threat of comparison with competing products that were better but not so heavily advertised.
"My reaction was, 'Okay, if no one else will publish a magazine that calls the shots as it sees them, I'll do it myself.' I must have been out of my mind!—JGH"
I also found several reviews of a couple of the early magazines from which I gleaned the following.
1966: Issue No. 15 is devoted to an article dealing with the construction ("Special Construction Issue") of a tube amplifier. This article was written by Edward T. Dell. Mr. Dell later founded The Audio Amateur magazine which was renamed AudioXpress at a later date. He is later featured on the cover of Vol.2 No.9 wearing quadraphonic headphones.
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