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News coverage #1 • News coverage #2  • News coverage #3  •view trailer of the 7 hour collection

Our MOMSR collection is available in a 7 hour video production divided by manufacturer and downloadable for $9.95 at this link

view trailer of the 7 hour collection

Please note! Non-profit entity dissolved: In December 2017, after five years of working to create a permanent public non-profit museum, the Board decided we'd had given it our best effort and the non-profit was dissolved. Some of the significantly valuable vintage devices that had been donated to the Museum were purchased by the Theophilus permanent collection owners. Other donated items were sold to interested parties and the remaining funds donated to the non-profit "Swan Songs." The non-profit museum ceased to exist on December 31, 2017.

One of the primary goals of the Museum is to gather historical records related to the equipment in the collection and of sound recording technology.

This includes manuals and promotional materials, as well as the many magazine ads and catalogs that were released profiling the recording equipment.

This era of "magnetic sound recording" when finally available to the public from the late 1940's to the early 1980's is a truly short period of time.  Many of the persons who were responsible for the development of this technology are no longer available.  It is a major goal of the museum to identify and document as many of the remaining individuals as possible and capture their stories for the Museum.

In December 2012, the Museum conducted an interview with Robert G, Metzner in Beverly Hills, CA.  Mr. Metzner was the 1946 founder of Roberts Electronics and Califone (one of the major US audio visual equipment manufacturers).  Roberts Recorders (in conjunction with Akai of Japan) supplied many pro-sumer reel to reel tape recorders from the 1050's an into the 1970's.  Robert G. Metzner was also the inventor of many unique technological devices.  Roberts Recorder was eventually acquired by Rheem (yes the same air conditioning company) and was one of the largest US suppliers of reel to reel tape recorders in the 1960's and 1970's.  Mr. Metzner, who is now 95, and his son Richard have agreed to an interview that is to eventually be shown in the Museum.

It is the museum's goal to be able to share this interview and many more including ones completed by the Audio Engineering Society in a theater in the museum.

The Museum will also maintain an archive of information about sound recording that will be available to the public for research.

Recommended DVDs and books related to music and sound recording - please note that none of these are available for sale on our site

DVD History of the Eagles	DVD Standing in the Shadows of MOTOWN	DVD Stax Records	DVD Produced by George Martin	DVD The House That Ahmet Built	DVD Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
DVD 20 Feet From Stardom	DVD Muscle Shoals	DVD Sound City	DVD Les Paul - Chasing Sound
book Clive Davis - The Soundtrack of My Life	book 360 Sound - The History of Columbia Records	book Abbey Road	Here's a link to a review of the "Evolution of the Audio Recorder" book	book Tascam - 30 Years of Recording Evolution	book Magnetic recording
book If These Halls Could Talk	book Made In Japan	book Perfecting Sound Forever	book Off the Record	book Temples of Sound	book House of Hits
book Magnetic Recording Semi Joseph Begum	book Too Hot to Handle	book Chasing Sound	book Studio Stories	book Sound Recording