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Sennheiser MD-421 U-5 $95 1960 info
'63 ad '64 ad '68 ad '73 ad
'77 ad '80 ad '85 ad '90 ad
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Shure 3A (1937)
The only early "3" Shure lists in its discontinued models is the 3B from 1937. The 3A must have been the first. Interesting that there is no documentation for the 3A on the Shure site.
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Shure 300 1952 $75 Shure data sheet
1952 First Shure ribbon microphone, Model 300
This is an interesting mic. It is a Shure 300 and has the Shure emblem, however is labeled by Stromberg Carlson as a Model MG 58.
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Shure 315 1952 $75
View Shure's data 1952 ad 1953 ad '57 ad
 
1982 Shure 300 in catalog
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Shure 330 1957
View Shure's data 1957 Shure data 1981
1982 Shure 330 in catalog 1954 Shure 300 ad
more info 1968 review '82 info
1954 Shure 300 ad
1956 ad 333
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Shure 51 (47 -76)
View Shure's data 1952 ad
1949 catalog listing
1952 catalog listing 1953 ad
'55 ad '57 ad
'61 catalog listing $29.11
'65 catalog listing $29.10
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Shure 515SB Unidyne B
View Shure's data
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Shure 516 EQ (77 -83)
One of Phantom's original recording microphones
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'78 ad '79 ad '79 ad #2
 
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Shure 55 C (1939 - 1946) $69.50
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1940 catalog listing 1942 catalog listing
1943 catalog listing 1946 catalog listing
1947 catalog listing 1949 catalog listing
1950 ad 1951 ad 1952 catalog listing
'57 ad - for later version '59 '60 ad
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Shure 556B (42 -46)
View Shure's data
'42 catalog listing
'49 catalog listing '49 catalog listing#2
'52 catalog listing
Recent starring roles for Phantom microphones
May 2004 - Golf Digest
 
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Shure 556 (51 - 81) $110
One of Phantom's original recording microphones used in Phantom's first studio. This microphone was acquired from an engineer who purchased directly from Shure. It was specifically selected to record the low end of electronic organ recording.
View Shure's data
'61 catalog listing $79.38
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Shure 55 1951 Shure Data $79.50
'54 ad '57 ad '59 ad
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Shure 737 1948 $39.75
View Shure's data
1948 ad 1950 ad 1951 ad '57 ad
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Shure SM 48
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Shure PE56 1976
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Shure/Sony Pro Mixer
Made by Shure
'71 Shure mixer ad
'72 Shure mixer ad
'80 Shure mixer ad
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Sony 555-A with matching speakers 1957 ad
'57, '58, '59 $595.00 - 1959 review
'58 picture '58 Ad '59 ad $595.00 '60 ad
Here's the 533 which was listed in a Sony brochure from 1958
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Sony CR-4 wireless microphone
$250 1960 ad Manual Specs '60 ad
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Sony 300 (1960) $399.95
This recorder was used by the Alpine, Texas High School music recordings. Martin was able to use it for duplicating and recording concerts.
Manual Cover more manual info
'60 Review
Sony Ad  
'61 Catalog Listing
'61 Catalog Listing
'62 Catalog Listing '62 ad
'62 Catalog Listing Radio Shack $395
'62 Catalog Listing Allied $409.95
'63 Catalog Listing $405.50
'63 ad specs
This model was also sold as the Sony 521 and was almost identical except for the 521 have international voltage selector and 50 to 60 cycle setting.
 
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Sony F-81 1962 $29.50 Mikes
'62 ad
Sony Catalog Listing
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Sony F-87 Mikes (pair)
'62 ad
Sony Catalog Listing
Sony F-96 Mikes
'62 ad
Sony Catalog Listing
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Sony SRA-2 Recording Amp (63)
'62 Catalog Listing
'63 Catalog Listing
'64 catalog listing $97.75
'63 ad
See SRA-L2 Ad
Sony SRA-464 amplifier
'64 catalog listing $97.75
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Sony 777 1962 $695 ad specs
 
This is the older Sony TC-777S-4 that was later released in a Limited Edition of 500 units in 1964. Interesting that it was released in different control panel colors. We had one come in (right above) with a dark panel.
'62 Cat Listing '63 Cat Listing '64 C at Listing
Specifications Sony catalog Manual 1 2 3 4
(61,62,63,64,65,66)
$725 '62 Radio Shack $595 '63 Allied
'62 ad '63 ad #1 '63 ad #2 '63 ad #3
View RealPlayer Movie Movie #2
1963 Sony catalog
This is an older Sony TC-777S-4
'62 Cat Listing '63 Cat Listing '65 Directory
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Sony TC-263D 1962 $119.50
This Sony deck was used by Martin as a source deck in the late '60's in Highland Sound's first studio.
'64 Radio Shack $117.50
See also Sony TC-262D
'62 Allied catalog listing $87.70
'62 Burstein Applebee catalog listing $89.50
HSC Phantom's 1965 Alpine Texas studio
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Sony 600 Info (1963) $449.95
One of Phantom's original recorders. Here's a picture one in Phantom's first studio.
Phantom's Sony 600 at Alpine radio station KVLF remote recording.
'64 Review
'63 ad '63 manual pages
'64 catalog listing
'66 catalog listing $299.50
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Specifications
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Sony SSA-777 Amplifier & Speaker system 1963 $175
'62 ad
Specifications
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Sony MX-777 Mixer 1963 $175
Info
Sony Ad #1 Sony Ad #2
'63 Catalog Listing
Specifications #1 #2
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Sony 777 Limited Edition 1964 $695 '65 ad
Only 500 777LEs were manufactured. We were lucky to find this one which was installed in a board room and appears and functions as brand new.
'66 ad#1 '66 ad #2
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Sony DR-3A headphones 1964 $22.50 1964 ad
Martin engineering in Highland Sound Company (Phantom Productions) studio, Alpine, Texas 1965
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Sony MX 6S Mixer 1964 $29.95
1964 Sony brochure
Sony Catalog Listing
'66 catalog listing $27.75 1976 catalog $39.95
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Sony TC-500A 1964 $399.50
Ad
More pictures
'64 Sony 500 catalog listing $391
'66 catalog listing
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Sony TC-800B 1964 $179.50
The Nixon White House Watergate model
Sony TC-800 ad (below)
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Sony TC-800B (cont'd)
The Nixon White House tapes are audio recordings of the communications of U.S. President Richard Nixon and various Nixon administration officials and White House staff, ordered by the President for personal records. The taping system was installed in selected rooms in the White House in February 1971 and was voice activated. The records come from line-taps placed on the telephones and small lavalier microphones in various locations around the rooms. The recordings were produced on up to nine Sony TC-800B open-reel tape recorders. The recorders were turned off on July 18, 1973, shortly after they became public knowledge as a result of the Watergate hearings.
 
Oval Office/White House Recorder
Sony TC-800B Audio Recorder
The secret White House taping system used a Sony TC-800B audio recording machine like the one on the right. It was a simple machine that was not expensive and cheap tiny Lavalier mics were used that were hidden throughout the Oval office and Nixon's hideout office in the OEB. The recordings were made on thin 0.5-mm tape running at the unusual speed of 15é16 inch per second - half the speed of a cassette recorder. The slow tape speed degrades the recording's already poor signal-to-noise ratio.This accounts for the poor quality of the tapes.
 Nixon's Uher 5000 Tape Recorder
And The 18.5 Minute Gap
While the recordings were recorded on the Sony TC-800B, Nixon played them back and reviewed them on a Uher 5000. The famous 18.5 minute gap was determined to be caused, not by Rosemary Woods in a transcribing accident, but caused by eight separate erasers.
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Sony TC-102 1965 $129.50
This was the first item I sold after I began representing Sony in West Texas. It was sold to the Brewster County Court, to record trials.
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Sony TC-260 '65 $229.50
One of Phantom's original recorder models used in on-location playback with Sony 600. Here's a Phantom's first studio. Sony 260 in Phantom's display 1967.
'65 Directory
'65 Radio Shack catalog listing $229.50
'67 Radio Shack catalog listing $229.50
'67 Lafayette catalog listing $229.50
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Sony TC-350 '65 $179.50
'66 Allied Holiday catalog
 
 
 
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Sony SSA-905A Info
'66 catalog listing $129.50
Sony Ad Page #1 #2 #3
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Sony 230 '67 $219.50
'67 catalog listing
Sony ad
Specifications
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Sony TDR 820 8-Track recorder
 
Sony TCS-310 1981
Ampex Micro 7 with Sony TCS-310
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Sony 772 (1969) 24 lbs - $750
'68 ad '69 Review '69 Sony 770 ad
'70 Sony 770 ad '70 catalog listing
 click on image for larger view
view additional manual pages
Sony ad for 770
see also a pic of the 774 model in our Unique section
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Sony 630 Stereo Center
1970 (deck $279.50,w/speakers $379.50)
One of Phantom's original recorders.
View RealPlayer movie
'69 ad '70 ad
'70 catalog listing
'70 ad 70 ad #2
    
Sony TC-630 at Phantom / Highland Sound in Alpine in 1969
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Sony TC-854-4 (1971-72)
65 lbs - $1,695
'71 Directory Listing '72 Review '72 ad
w/ Sync Monitor Amp Circuit Addition
Service Manual Cover with Specs
'73 ad
'73 ad
2nd '73 ad
    
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Sony TC-651 (1971-72) '71 ad
Sony TC-651 donated by Don Nattinger to the Reel2ReelTexas collection
'71 ad
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Sony TC-654-4 (1971-72) $750.00 specs
Sony TC-654-4 donated by Don Nattinger to the Reel2ReelTexas collection
'71 ad '71 ad #2
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Sony 580 1971 $369.95
One of Phantom's original recorders. The 580 was used for duplication and later sold to Austin Custom Records for tape and cassette duplication.
'71 ad View RealPlayer movie
Phantom's original Sony 580 set up as a tape duplication source at Austin Custom Records.
Sony ad
Phantom's Sony 580
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Sony TC-755 (1974) '74 ad
Sony TC-755 donated by Don Nattinger to the Reel2ReelTexas collection
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Sony Pro Mixer
Made by Shure
'71 Shure mixer ad
'72 Shure mixer ad
'80 Shure mixer ad
Sony 800 1971 $369.95 Nixon recorders
more info
Oval Office/White House Recorder
Sony TC-800B Audio Recorder
The secret White House taping system used a Sony TC-800B audio recording machine like the one on the left It was a simple machine that was not expensive and cheap tiny Lavalier mics were used that were hidden throughout the Oval office and Nixon's hideout office in the OEB. The recordings were made on thin 0.5-mm tape running at the unusual speed of 15é16 inch per second - half the speed of a cassette recorder. The slow tape speed degrades the recording's already poor signal-to-noise ratio.This accounts for the poor quality of the tapes.
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Sony MX-16 1972 $1,095
 
interesting installation of this mixer
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Sony Electret Condenser ECM-22 $99
One of Phantom's original recording microphones
Sony SB-300 1976 $59.95
1976 catalog
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Sony 510-2 1976 - 1986 $1,850 to $2,300
more info Specs Brochure '76 ad
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Sony TC-765 1978 with remote $999.95
The last Sony reel to reel tape recorder manufactured
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Sony C37P 1960's to 1970's
95,000 yen = $1,220
 
Sony C37P Brochure
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Sony MX-12 Mixer 1970-1975
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Sony MX-8 mic mixer
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Sony APM 22ES 1985 $475
These monitors are used in our studio in conjunction with a JBL center channel and 2 Altec 847As
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Sony APR-5003 1988 $12,000 Specs
1985 ad
1988 ad
1990 ad for the Sony APR-24
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SPARTA Radio Console A-20B 1974 $1,500.00 new
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Spectone (UK)
Model 151B. Price 76 gus., including microphone
Acquired in Suffolk, England. Recorder reverses and runs well. Has tape of Winston Churchill radio documentary. More info
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Stancil-Hoffman MiniTape 1947
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Studer ReVox Dynavox T-261949 to 1951
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Studer B67 1978 1980 $5,450 brochure
 
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Studer A807 1987 $8,795 brochure manual
  
1987/88 ad
1988 review
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Superscope/Marantz CassetteC 202 LP
Donated by Ted Miller
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