♫ The Bookshelf
A number of you have asked me to recommend books about audio & music that I like, so I thought I'd get that started.
I thought I'd add few books I like about other stuff too.
It'll be a work in progress, and I'll add a few books here and there over time to fill out the bookshelf.
Audio & Music
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- The Garrard Story by E.W. Mortimer and B.E. Mortimer.
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- 150 pages, softback. ISBN 978-0-9934901-1-8
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- Get Better Sound by Jim Smith. The reference for system setup and optimization.
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- Order directly from Mr. Smith by clicking here.
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- How To Build Speaker Enclosures by Alexis Badmaieff and Don Davis. Detailed drawings and instructions for building speaker enclosures for classic vintage loudspeakers.
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- Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Sams (June 1, 1966) Language: English ISBN-10: 0672205203 ISBN-13: 978-0672205200 Usually less than $20 USD on Amazon.
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- McIntosh .... For the Love of Music by Ken Kessler. Getting hard to find, and as a result its getting expensive.
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- Hardcover: 314 pages; Publisher: Mcintosh Laboratory Inc. (2006); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0978723600 ISBN-13: 978-0978723606
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- Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner.
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- Paperback: 416 pages; Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 25, 2010); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0865479380; ISBN-13: 978-0865479388
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- Swiss Precision - The Story of the Thorens TD 124 and Other Classic Turntables, by Joachim Bung.
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- Price if you order directly from Mr. Bung is 69 euros plus shipping (from Germany). Verlags Joachim Bung, Stichelwiese 2 b, DE 61389 Schmitten, Germany Phone: ++49 6084-3764, [email protected]
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- The Tannoy Story by Julian Alderton.
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- Paperback; Publisher: Edward Gaskell Publishers (December 31, 2007); ISBN-13: 979-1898546589; ASIN: B0079L8HBW
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- Improvising: My Life in Music (Includes Audio CD) by Larry Coryell.
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- Paperback: 240 pages; Publisher: HAL LEONARD CORPORATION (April 7, 2007); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0879308265; ISBN-13: 978-0879308261
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- Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead Paperback by Phil Lesh.
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- Paperback: 352 pages; Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (April 25, 2006); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0316154490; ISBN-13: 978-0316154499
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- Music for All of Us, by Leopold Stokowski. This is a phenomenal book! with many insights related to music and audio.
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- Hardcover, 340 pages, published in 1943 by Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0781292263.
More coming!
Other Great Reading!
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- The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth.
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- Copper Canyon Press, 1st Edition edition (August 1, 2002), ISBN-10: 1556591713, ISBN-13: 978-1556591716.
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- Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. A Fully Annotated Edition edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer.
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- Yale University Press, 400 pages, ISBN: 9780300104660.
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- "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy" by renowned economist Michael Hudson is a great read for those who want to find out how the world really works (i.e. follow the money!). Paperback: 440 pages Publisher: ISLET; First edition (August 20, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 3981484282 ISBN-13: 978-3981484281
More coming!
