Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design
Audiophiles, if you don't feel geeked out enough listening to your extensive vinyl collection on a vintage B&O record player every night, Hi-Fi: The History of High-end Audio Design will help round out your analog sound obsession, plus give you one of the latest and best coffee table books for men to help enhance your music room decor.In Hi-Fi author Gideon Schwartz takes a "beyond-cool look at the world of high-end audio design." Beginning with the 1950s, his pages provide a retrospective not just of audio equipment and its evolution through the decades, but how the look, feel, and sound of various pieces helped define the generations that first knew them.
Hi-Fi's exploration continues to present day, and beyond, with insight into the analog renaissance, and sneak peeks at new cutting-edge designs for lustful audiophiles.
Hi-Fi: The History of High-end Audio Design is a collector's item of collector's items, and would make a great gift for a music-loving man this holiday season.
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