Vintage electronics and capacitor replacements tend to go hand-in-hand. Why? Because electrolytic capacitors just don’t last, not the way most other components do, anyway. The metal terminal ring and ...

Q. I enjoyed your recent column on vintage audio equipment. I have a pair of ESS AMT 1C speakers with Heil Air Motion Transformer drivers. I have owned them since the 1970s and totally enjoy them. How ...

Before the second world war Radio was a revolution in mass-communication much like the internet today. Fortunes were made and lost, empires built, epic patent battles ensued, all of which resulted in ...

DECATUR — When it comes to electronics repair, there are handymen, and then there are Decatur’s Ishee boys. The father-and-son duo behind Mound Road’s Video Products Repair shop have fixed nearly ...

Part 1 of 7 about vintage audio covers the basics of vintage hifi amplifiers, receivers and preamps. Learn what to look for and what to avoid, along with some money saving tips. Our 7-part podcast ...

Luis Faraklas Trevino shows off a vintage synthesizer on the floor of Output Audio, which also includes a recording studio. Credit: Bill Baird A new retail shop tucked into a resurgent stretch of ...