In defence of the shellac 78 — and the people who still play them.
A visit to a small club in the Midlands where members meet once a month to listen to pre-war 78 rpm records on the equipment they were originally meant for.
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The radiogram, the lounge, and the politics of furniture.
How a piece of mid-century domestic equipment got squeezed out of British sitting rooms — and what we lost when we agreed that hi-fi should be invisible.
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The engineer who still uses the tape machine he was trained on in 1974.
Half a working life later, the Studer is still in the corner of the studio, still calibrated, still used at least once a week.
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