This short series of posts takes a personal trip down memory lane looking back at my experiences with analogue audio. You can read parts one and two here and here. In the previous two posts, I have taken a fond look back at three analogue audio formats – vinyl records, reel-to-reel and 8-track – which formed an … Continue reading »
This short series of posts takes a personal trip down memory lane looking back at my experiences with analogue audio. You can read part one here. Reel-to-reel tape This magnetic tape system was the predecessor of the cassette, and essentially worked by spooling tape from one seven-inch reel to another. I can trace my love … Continue reading »
I stumbled across this poster recently and – aside from the fact that you probably have to be of a certain age to understand why cassette tapes and pencils went together – it got me thinking about the various audio storage and playback formats which I have come across in my lifetime.
In years gone by you couldn’t have paid me enough to persuade me to go on the kind of holiday we have just had. An Italian holiday camp packed with pools, water slides, overexcited kids, blaring Europop. … and Germans. Being eaten alive by mosquitoes. Slumming it in a cramped mobile home without direct access to … Continue reading »
I have just spent an entire week on holiday without access to the internet, TV or even newspapers. No Facebook, Twitter or email. No RSS news feeds direct to my iPhone (which was drowned, presumed dead in an incident involving a flooded ditch nearly three weeks ago). No means of navigating around Tuscany other than … Continue reading »
Where? Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, photographed from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair. When? August 1997. What? Two of the most distinctive and iconic structures anywhere in the world sit just a couple of hundred metres apart in the centre of Sydney. The Sydney Harbour Bridge was completed in 1932, with a 503-metre long arch which remains the fifth longest spanning-arch … Continue reading »
