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No Artist – How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check-Out (E/E)
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How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check-Out is an LP by No Artist from 1967 released on the Decca label.
About this album
How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check-Out is a practical 1967 test record designed to help listeners set up and assess a stereo system with clarity. Issued as a spoken and technical Non-Music release, it walks through left-right channel identification, loudspeaker balance, phasing, tone controls, crosstalk, wow and flutter, and distortion, using examples that make faults easy to hear. Its value lies in how directly it translates hi-fi theory into listening tests, making it a useful snapshot of late-1960s audio culture as stereo home systems became more common and more demanding to adjust.
Genre: Library
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A1 Introduction
A2 Left-Right Channel Identification, Loudspeaker Balance, And Channel Phasing
A3 Monophonic Music (For Loudspeaker Balance And Phasing) (Aldrich)
A4 Tone Controls
A5 Sound Colouration
A6 Stereophonic Music (Aldrich)
A7 Groove-Jumping And Distortion
A8 Silent Grooves
B1 Live Versus Recorded Sound
B2 Wow And Flutter
B3 Anti-Skating Band (With Ungrooved Section)
B4 Crosstalk
B5 Musical Show-Piece; Extract From "Háry János" (Kodály), Istvan Kertesz Conducting The L.S.O.