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   Books, catalogs, single magazine issues about audio, Stereo and Hi Fidelity sound

Short run journals, books, booklets, one-of-a-kind catalogs, local program schedules and single issues of magazines related to audio, hi fidelity and stereo sound can be found on this page.
The term "Hi-Fi" became synonymous with better quality audio in the 1950's, and was gradually supplanted by "stereo" as multi-channel audio developed.

Audio & Hi-Fi
 
New Addtions
  Hi Fi in the Home Crabbe 3rd 1972  Hi Fi Stereo Handbook Boyce 1961    HiFi Stereo Installation Simplified Cameron 1978 
  Reproduction of Sound Villchur 1962  Set Up Your Own Hi Fi by Warring 1974    Sound Design Attwood Beazley 2002 
  Sound Recording & Hi Fi Brown 1976  Sound Reproduction Briggs 2nd 1950    Stereo for Beginners Webb  
  The Hi Fi Handbook Pioneer         
1-100
100 Ways to Beat your Wife at Hi Fi
From Altec
       
A-B-C
A guide to hifi ABC's of Hi Fi & Stereo ABC of Hi Fi John Earl
audio & Hifi handbook Audio Amplifier Construction    
All About High Fidelity & Stereo
McProud
1968
Audio Control Handbook for Radio & TV
Oringel  1956
All About High Fidelity & Stereo
McProud
Allied 1969
Bang & Olufsen Book of Hi Fi Columbia 1957 8    
Audio Anthology
1950 Audio Anthology 1953 Audio Anthology 1955 Audio Anthology
1957 Audio Anthology        
Catalog of High Fidelity Equipment (UK)
Catalogue of High Fidelity Equipment
1964
UK
Catalogue of High Fidelity Equipment
1965
UK
   
D-E-F
EAR1 Farnell 1961 Farnell 1963
G-H-I
Good amplification gramaphone guide gramaphone handbook
General Electric
Hi-Fi Components
Hi-Fi Stereo Servicing Guide
Sams Library
High Performance Loudspeakers
Colloms
2nd edition
1980 
High Fidelity Home Music Systems
1955
Installing Hi-Fi Systems
Gernsback Library
How to Build Your Own Radio and HiFi Sets
Wellman
1954
Hi-Fi
1957 buyer's guide and technology tutorial
Hi Fi World
December, 1956
Our only copy of this early HiFI magazine
Vol 1 No 1
High Fidelity's Silver Anniversary
Treasury
High-Fi Furniture
Gernsback
1959
High Fidelity Circuit Design
1957
Hi-Fi Made Easy
Gernsback Library #90
International Audio Festival & Fair 1964 International Audio Festival & Fair 1968 International Audio Festival & Fair 1970
How to Choose a Speaker KEF how to get the best out of your tape recorder International Audio Festival & Fair 1961
Hi-Fi for the enthusiast uSA high performance audio high performance loudspeakers 3
Hi Fi Buyers Guide 1 System Digest Hi Fi Buyers Guide 2 Cassette Decks Hi Fi Buyers Guide 3 Turntables
Hi Fi Buyers Guide 4 Amplifiers Hi Fi for Beginners Hi Fi for Pleasure
Hi Fi for the Enthusiast UK Hi Fi handbook Hi Fi Troubles
Hi Fi Weekly High Fidelity 77 Spring Exhibition Hi-fi & audio projects Hi-Fi & Stereophonic Sound
Introducing Digital Audio An Introduction to Loudspeakers & Enclosure Design Introduction to Hi Fi Brown 1966
Introducing Hi Fi Turner 1976        
J-K-L
Loud Speakers
Theory, Performance
McLachlan  
1960
Loudspeakers The Why & How of Good Reproduction    
M-N-O
Operadio Sound Catalog
1948
New Hi Fi Sound Guide 3 New Hi Fi Sound Guide 4
New Hi Fi Sound Guide 5 New Hi Fi Sound Guide 1 New Hi Fi Sound Guide 2
Magnetic Recording        
Small Magazine Collections (Not meriting separate page)
High Fidelity Trade News
Now a separate section with more issues.
Better Listening
Magazine distributed by early audio dealers
Fall 1968 issue
   
P-Q-R
Set Up Your Own Hi-F
Waring
Professional Audio Directory
1992
The Recording and Reproduction of Sound
1953
The Practical HiFi Handbook
King
1959
Practical Hi Fi Sound Reproduction of Sound
S-T-U
The Sound of High Fidelity
Popular Mechanics
Jordan.1958
Thrilling New Sounds
High Fidelity
Understanding Hi-Fi Circuits
Gernsback
1957
Stereo FM Handbook
Harvey & Bohlman
The Sound of High Fidelity
Jordan & Cunningham
1958
Stereo 1961
from Electronic Technician magazine
Understanding High Fidelity
RCA
1956
Transistor Radio Circuitry Understanding Hi Fi Specifications
Understanding High Fidelity Soundbites Television Explained
This is High Fidelity Sight & Sound Marketing
One issue from September 1967
Set Up Your Own Hi Fi
Stereo Handbook GA Briggs Tape Recording & Hi Fi (ARCO) Tape recording & Hi Fi, Collins Nutshell Book 32
Tape Recording        
V-W-X-Y-Z
           
Ziff Davis Annual Stereo Buyers' Guide (Title Changed Several Times)
Stereo HiFi Directory
Buyers' Guide
1962
Stereo Directory & Buying Guide
1972
   
Audio Related Magazines on this Website
Audio Magazine Audio Engineering / Audio Magazine.
1947 - 1964
Pro journal which became a leading consumer magazine.

db Sound Engineering db magazine. The Sound Engineering journal.1967 to 1994.
Professional audio.
Mix Magazine
Recording studio and audio magazine beginning in 1976
Tape Recording Tape Recording Consumer magazine from the 50's and the 60's
Studio Sound Studio Sound
Sound and
professional audio journal.
1969 to 2001
  High Fidelity Trade News
Home Audio dealer magazine starting in 1957
 
Audio Record Audio Record.
Publication of Audio Devices from 1944 to the late 50's
One to One One to One
Mastering, pressing
and duplication
1980's
  AudioFan
A 1966 audio and HiFi enthusiast magazine.
 
Recording Engineer Producer Recording Engineer / Producer. "REP"
 70's-90's
Tape Recording
UK Edition
British magazine 1957 to 1971
  Stereophile
Starting in 1962, this  high end audio magazine is still published
 
Stereo Review HiFi & Music Review
HiFi Review
HiFi & Stereo Review
Audiophile and music magazine from 1958 to 1999
Hi-Fi Stereo Buyers' Guide
Consumer Audio product guide and reviews from 1966