A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE RECORD LABELS & RECORDING ARTISTS for allowing me to display their vintage audio treasures here on my site. It would be a shame to let these gems be forgotten by time.

WITH RESPECT TO ARTISTS & PERSONS in relation to using Audio's/Video's/Photo's/Print Media on a given subject, whether it was a public released item, or a "unique", one of a kind item(such as a homemade audio, video, photo, photo slide show, or printed document)..I am not here to violate your copyrights, and or privacy.

This site is for sharing sounds, and sights from the past to help educate others, especially the younger age group **30 years old and younger on recordings(mainly audio/visual) of sounds and sights made before their time, since most of the examples and versions here on my site are not readily heard, or available elsewhere, many are also deteriorating away with time..thus, depriving future generations in connecting with past events by way of the audio/video recording mediums.**(30 years old based on 2009 time line..that minimum age will only increase as time goes on).

I feel it is much more involving if you can visit a past event by listening, and or viewing audio and visual(film/video) recordings than simply reading about it in a history book, or document(if it is even documented elsewhere..period!!). In saying that, I will respect the wishes of anyone who created, or helped create any these audio/video/photo/printed media files I have here on my Youtube site and remove them at their request if they so desire.

I do not enjoy having old audio/visual/photo media turning to dust, depriving future generations of learning about past entertainers, as well as everyday Jane's and Joe's homemade recordings..but I also want to respect wishes of content creators.

The focus of this site is on the preserving, and restoration of recorded sights & sounds of the past for current and future generations to enjoy before these old audio/visual recordings deteriorate into oblivion, or get destroyed by disaster.

The emphasis here is on archiving old, rare, and family home recordings(both audio & visual) since they are usually "one of a kind" and not mass produced multiple copies like famous artist recordings, and if some disaster destroys the only copy of your great grandfathers barber shop quartet recording for example, it is lost forever!!

Preserve it in digital format, and make many copies to share with your other family members or close friends of your family.

Same applies to family photos.

I AM ON A MISSION TO PRESERVE PAST AUDIO/VISUAL SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FOR ALL GENERATIONS!!

INFORMATION ON STEREO COMPONENTS IN MY BACKGROUND PHOTO:

My main system for now, although maybe not high end with all the over priced gold connectors, it does work great in providing clean archiving of old recordings to computer, with Parallax Speakers on both sides, the components are stacked in cabinet as follows:

Components included in left stack are:

(Top to Bottom) Realistic Switchboxes clustered together in homemade box, Realistic 12 Band EQ(Not used much, and NOT at all for recording, it is not patched in recording chain, I believe in minimal processing of sound and focus to retain integrity of original recordings as much as possible) anyway, the components below the EQ are the Pioneer PDR-609 CD Recorder, Aiwa XC-RW700 Dual CD Player/Recorder Deck, and Technics SLB-20 2-Speed Belt Drive Turntable fitted with a Audio Technica AT112EP Phono Cartridge.

Components in the right stack are:

(Top to Bottom) Stanton STR-80 3-Speed Direct Drive Turntable fitted with a Stanton 520-SK Phono Cartridge with choice of either 33/45 rpm record or 78 rpm record stylus headshell, Sansui 2000X Receiver from 1969 in which the Preamp section is used as a "Mini Mixer" for archiving records-tapes and other sources to digital files and it features clean and distortion free recording results, a cheap 70's Meriton Receiver mainly functions as a stand for the 2 components above it and the only audio function it serves rarely are for AM broadcasts, the very bottom is the Sansui 5000X also from 1969 has strong clean output that rivals many of today's receivers and it powers the 12-inch, 3-way Parallax-Pioneer Woofer based Speakers.

I have a deep interest, and compassion in the archiving, and preserving of audio/visual media as it serves as sort of a "time machine" so to speak for future generations to "listen to" and "look at" the sounds and sights from previous generations, allowing current, and future generations to "eavesdrop" on the sights, and sounds from their parents, grand parents, great grand parents eras.

I also have an interest in collecting antique stereo/recording components and systems, see my Myspace "My Small & Growing Antique Radio/Stereo Collection", see link at very bottom in website link section.

It disturbs me to read about disasters such as Universal Studio's fire in 2008 destroying many original master films, or when Atlantic Records had a fire in 1977 that destroyed many original first generation master tapes of that labels major recording artists since the tapes were not stored in a fire proof vault.

And then there is family audio/visual memorabilia, and it is usually "one of a kind", so if a disaster of some kind destroys them, they are gone forever!!..That is not what you want to leave for future generations.