Vintage Advertising page

On this page, you will find PDF’s that I create from my own collection of vintage advertising for tube amps, speakers, test equipment, microphones, etc.  The ads often provide production specs and other useful information. A Altec – [ PDF ] Amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, mixers, Power Supply, FM-AM Radio tuner, speaker, speakers, Horn, horns. Some models

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the Reprocessed Tube Racket

“Standard Brand“, “Rad-Tel“, “Atomic“, “Cosmic” — what kind of brands are these? I found an interesting tube-related article in the Dec-1955-Jan-1956 issue of NATIONAL RADIO-TV NEWS.  The article exposed a supply-chain problem during the 1950s where unscrupulous vendors would buy “pull-outs” (duds or near-end-of-life tubes) from repair shops, then manipulate the tubes in a manner

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