Time Line Part 2 • the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording

Electro Voice 666 $288

Electro Voice 911 $19.11

Garrard Lab 80 $99.50, base$6.50

Sony SSA-777 Amplifier & Speaker system

Sony MX-777 Mixer

The Dolby Type A noise reduction system is introduced.

March from Selma to Montgomery

Pres. Johnson outlined plans for his “Great Society.”

continuous bombing of North Vietnam below 20th parallel

Medicare signed by Pres. Johnson

Watts riots

National immigration quota system abolished

Electric power failure blacked out most of northeastern U.S.

1966

Ampex PR-10 $1,045

Ampex 602 $625

Ampex 602-2 $875

Crown SS 700 $895

Magnecord 1024 $643

Magnecord 1028 $1,075

Newcomb TX10 $750

ReVox G-36 $500

Teac A-4010S $450

Ampex 2000 $499

Concertone 801 "Reverse-O-Matic" $359.50

Concertone 804 "Reverse-O-Matic" $439.95

Crown CTR-5400

Eico RP-100 $450

Knight KG-415 $249

Lafayette Criterion 1000B $189

Norelco Continental 401 $219.50

Rheem 3200 $269.95

Roberts 400X $799.95

Roberts 770X $359.95

Roberts 770XSS $349.95

Roberts 5000X $699.95

Roberts 6000X $299.50

Sony 260 $239.5

Sony 263-D $129.50

Sony 500A $391

Sony 600 $449.95

Sony TC-777S-4 $595

Tandberg 8 $449.50

Viking 87 Super Pro with 2 amps 382.35

American D4 $18.60

Calrad 500C $4.95

/Ampex H-1390 $57.00

Electro Voice 635 $82

Electro Voice 6 36 $72.50

Electro Voice 644 (gray)$110

Electro Voice 647A $48.51

Electro Voice 666 $288

Electro Voice 911 $19.11

Electro Voice 623 $29.50

Garrard Lab 80 $99.50, base$6.50

Shure 300 $89.50

Sony MX 6S Mixer $27.75

Sony SRA-3 $109.50

Sony SSA-905A

Sony MX-777 Mixer $175

Sony SSA-777 Amplifier & Speaker system $175

U.S. forces began firing into Cambodia

Bombing of Hanoi

Miranda warning

Medicare began

Charles Whitman, 25, killed 13 students from a tower at the Univ. of Texas, Austin

1967

Ampex AG-500 $1,581

Ampex AG 600 Solid State

Ampex 600-2 (solid state) $1,010

Ampex AG 602 $625

Ampex AG-445B $2760

Ampex 960 $399

Ampex PR-10 $1,045

Crown SS 700

Teac A-4010S $450

Teac A-4020

Akai X-300

Altec Lansing Seville $213.30

Concertone 804 "Reverse-O-Matic" $349.95

Norelco Continental "300" $199.50

Roberts 400X $799.95

Roberts 770X $359.95

Roberts 770XSS $349.95

Roberts 5000X $699.95

Roberts 6000X $299.50

Sony 230

Sony 260

Sony 600

Telmar Martel 5" recorder $89.95

Electro Voice 623 $57.00

Electro Voice 644 (gray)$110

Electro Voice 666 $288

Electro Voice 911 $19.11

Teac AX-10

25th Amendment, providing for presidential succession

Riots in Newark, NJ

Antiwar march on Washington - 50,000 participants

1968

Ampex AG500 $1,537

Ampex 600 (solid state) $400

Ampex 600-2 (solid state) $1,010

Ampex 960 $399

Revox A77, Series I

Teac TCA-40

Teac 2340

Teac 3340

Altec Lansing Seville

Crowncorder CRC6250F

Norelco Continental "300" $199.50

Roberts 192 FT $349.95

Roberts 400X $799.95

Roberts 770X $349.95

Roberts 770XSS $399.95

Roberts 1000

Roberts 5000X $699.95

Telmar Martel 5" recorder $79.95

CBS releases "Switched-On Bach," Walter (Wendy) Carlos's polyphonic multitracking of Moog's early music synthesizer.

USS Pueblo

Tet offensive

MLK assassinated

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy shot

Apollo 8 orbited moon

1969

Ampex 600 (solid state) $400

Ampex 600-2 (solid state) $1,010

Ampex AG500 $1,537

Ampex 761 $329

Ampex 960 $399

Crown SX700

Electro Voice 664 Gray Chrome

Altec Lansing Seville

Crowncorder CRC6250F

Dokorder 8020

Roberts 770XSS $399.95

Roberts 1000

Roberts 5000X $699.95

Sony 630 w/speakers $379.50)

Sony 772 $750

$49.98

Dr. Thomas Stockham begins to experiment with digital tape recording

3M introduces Scotch 206 and 207 magnetic tape, with a s/n ratio 7 dB better than Scotch 111.

After Elvis, and then the Beatles, invaded the pop music scene, millions of young people bought guitars and started garage bands. Guitar sales tripled, band instrument shipments doubled and overall industry sales surged from $400 million in 1960 to $1.1 billion in 1969. NAMM

Vietnam peace talks

Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon

Woodstock music festival

My Lai, South Vietnam

Sesame Street launched

First magnetic strips on credit cards - IBM

Year

Reel to reel

Mikes, Mixers, Headphones

History

1970

Ampex AG500 $1,537

Ampex 600 (solid state) $400

Ampex 600-2 (solid state) $1,010

Ampex 761 $329

Ampex 960 $399

Roberts 1000

Sony 630 w/speakers $379.50)

Sony 772 $750

Ampex introduces 406 mastering tape.

Chicago 7

first Earth Day

Kent State

clean air bill

Doonesbury

Jimi Hendrix dies

Janis Joplin dies

1971

dbx introduced

Nagra IV-S

Ampex AG440 $2,649

Teac A-3300 $790

Teac A-3340$1,290

Teac TCA-40

Teac TCA-42

Tascam founded

Roberts 333X $559.00

Sony 580

Shure Pro Mixer

Charles Manson

voting age lowered to 18

Jim Morrison dies

First floppy disk - IBM

1972

Teac TCA-43

Teac A-2340R $799.50

Teac A-3300 $790

Teac A-3340 $1,290

Sony TC-854-4 $1,695

Teac Model 10 intro AES

Nixon in Beijing

Equal Rights Amendment banning discrimination on the basis of sex

George C. Wallace shot

Nixon is first US President to visit Moscow

Watergate breakin

1973

Revox A77 MKIII $749

ReVox A77 MKIII Dolby B $969

Tapesonic70A $675

Teac 70H &L

Teac 3300 $499.

Teac 4010S $599.

Teac 6010S $799.

Teac 7010S $899.

Teac A-2340R $799.50

Teac A-3300 $790

Teac A-3340 $1,290

Akai GX-260D $474.95

Akai GX-400D $895.95

Akai X-2000SD $549.95

Dokorder 9100 $699.95

JVC RD-1555 $499.95

Pioneer T-8800 $549.95

Roberts 333X $549.95

Sony 580 $499.95

Sony 630 $449.95

Sony TC-850-4 $895

Sony TC-854-4 $1,695

StellaVox Sp 7 $1,692

Tandberg Series 11 $449

Tandberg Series 4000X $469

Tandberg Series 9000X $649

Technics RS-1030US $899.95

Telex LS 2001 $799.95

Roe v. Wade

Wounded Knee

End of the military draft

Skylab, 1st U.S. space station

Secretariat became first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948

Agnew resigned re tax evasion

Gerald R. Ford became first appointed vice president under the 25th Amendment;

First bar code - IBM

1974

Otari TD7500 with two AF-206 recording amplifiers

ReVox A700 $2,049

Teac A-2340R $799.50

Teac A-3300 $790

Teac A-3340 $1,290

Tascam Corp acquired by Teac

Tascam Series 70H8 the world's first 1/2" 8 track tape recorder

Teac Model 10 1st shipped

Tascam Model 10 mixer$2,350

3M introduces Scotch 250 mastering tape with an increase in output level of over 10 dB compared to Scotch 111.

Impeachment hearings opened against Pres. Nixon

White House “plumbers” found guilty

Pres. Nixon announced his resignation, Aug. 8

pardon of Nixon issued by Pres. Ford

1975

Ampex ATR-700

Dolby Stereo introduced

Tascam 8 $4,j600

Teac 25-2 $1,850

Teac A-2340R $799.50

Teac A-3300 $790

Teac A-3340 $1,290

Teac Model 2 mixer & MB20 meter bridge

Teac AX-20

Teac ME-120

Teac Model 5 mixer

Tascam Model 10 mixer$2,350

Digital tape recording begins to take hold in professional audio studios.

Ampex introduces 456 high-output mastering tape.

Mitchell and ex-presidential advisers H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman found guilty of Watergate cover-up charges

evacuation of Saigon

South Vietnam refugees

Patricia (Patty) Hearst, kidnapped

1976

Ampex ATR-100 $5,450 Rev

Ampex ATR-700

Dokorder 1140 $1,199.95

Teac Model 2 mixer & MB20 meter bridge

ReVox A700 $2,049

Teac 25-2 $1,850

Teac A-2340R $799.50

Teac A-3300 $795

Teac A-3340 $1,199

Teac 80-8 $3,500

Teac Model 5 mixer

Tascam Model 10 mixer$2,350

Dr. Stockham of Soundstream makes the first 16-bit digital recording in the U.S. at the Santa Fe Opera.

Karen Ann Quinlan “right to die” case

Supreme Court reinstated death penalty

200th anniversary of independence

Legionnaire's disease

Viking II set down on Mars

World's worst earthquake Tanghan, China

1977

Pioneer RT-707

Revox A77, Series III

Tascam 8 $4,j600

Teac 25-2 $1,850

Teac A-3300 $795

Teac A-3340 $1,199

Teac 40-4

Teac 80-8 $3,500

Teac 90-16

Shure 516 EQ

Teac Model 2 mixer & MB20 meter bridge

Teac ME-120

Teac Model 5 mixer

Tascam Model 10 mixer$2,350

Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders

Energy Department created after natural gas shortage

Elvis Presley died

George Lucas's first Star Wars film

1978

Akai GX-650D $995

Dokorder 7140 $629

Dokorder 1120 $649.94

Dokorder 1140 $1,299.95

Dokorder 8100 $549.50

Dokorder 8140 $749.50

Otari 5050Q $2,050

Pioneer RT-2022 $1,250

Pioneer RT-1011L $600

Pioneer RT-707

Pioneer RT-901

Pioneer RT-909 $900

ReVox A700 $2,049

ReVox A77 MKIV $959

ReVox B77 $1,195

Sony 880-2 $2,495

Sony 788-4 $1,450

Tandberg 10XD $1,399

Tandberg 3500X $599

Tascam 8 $4,j600

Teac A-2340 $850

Teac 25-2 $2,000

Teac A-3300 $750

Teac A-3340 $1,300

Teac A-6300 2T $1.100

Teac A-7300 2T $1,449.50

Teac 80-8 $3,500

Teac 90-16 $12,500

Technics RS-1500 $1,500

Technics RS-1506

Telex 1400 $1,535

Toshiba PT-884D $309.95

Uher SG-630 $1,279.5

JBL L40s

Shure 516 EQ

Shure M67 $268

Sony MX-20 $1,095

Teac Model 2 $299

Teac Model 5 mixer $1,500

Tascam Model 10 mixer$2,350

Teac Model 15 mixer

A patent is issued to Blackmer for an adaptive filter (the basis of dbx Types I and II noise reduction).

US turned over Panama Canal to Panama

Proposition 13 California

Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prem. Menachem Begin reached accord on “framework for peace”

prime interest rate 11.75%

1979