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Posted by freddyi (A ) on June 8, 2007 at 10:13:50

(John Karlson Hi Fi Workbench excerpts (mp3) from Roger Russell's collection)

sometime ago when Job Ulfman's Karlson forum was running I purchased a copy (of a copy) of one show featuring speaker inventors John Karlson and Reuben Guss from Roger Russell's collection.

this was a good time promo-wise for Karlson as his famous 15 inch cabinet with EV 15TRX supplied sound for Ford/Disney, GE and other exhibits at the 1964-65 World's Fair.

with Roger's permission here are a few excerpts I took from the cassettes (please excuse my poor editing and be careful of playback as the mp3 levels were not normalized)

Roger Russell's list of historic American Hi-Fi

Workbench WNCN-FM 3/7/64
Speakers 100min

Eric Towline-moderator
John Karlson (KRC Electronics)
Reuben Guss (Argos-X Electronics)


Clip Introduction

Clip Efficiency

Clip Karlson's start with 3 dollar speaker

Clip 8 Hz story

Clip Karlson briefly explains K15

Clip Karlson speaks about Consumer Reports and AR

Clip Reuben Guss

Clip Prices 1964

Clip Karlson matching to wide variety of speakers

Clip Karlson cone excursion

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