Finding your groove: getting into vinyl with Audio-Technica
I’d like to think that I could’ve been friends with the late Hideo Matsushita, founder of Japanese Hi-Fi powerhouse Audio-Technica. If I could, I’d travel back in time to 1960’s Tokyo, where a young Matsushita curated “vinyl listening sessions” at the Bridgestone Museum of Arts, exposing visitors to the sounds and possibilities of high end audio and the warmth of vinyl records. I imagine sitting with him in a mod coffee shop, listening to the stories of what he witnessed in those sessions, the conversations he had with visitors, and what ultimately motivated him to head back to his small apartment above a ramen restaurant and start an audio company of his own. In the histories I’ve read regarding AT’s humble beginnings, Matsushita’s motives seem clear. Produce high end audio at affordable prices, bringing audio excellence into spaces and to customers that simply didn’t have access to it before. His first two products, the AT-1 and AT-3 phono cartridges did exactly that, and...
Dec 6, 2023
Basically, is anyone aware of an existing (either desk/bookshelf/portable) AM/FM, or just FM, tuner that has the capability to switch "to a station" at a pre-programmed time/day?
Plenty of tuners with presets, double timers for alarms, and lots of "typical" options. There are some -software based- (a-la SDR) tuners that can be configured to *record* specific stations at specific times, but there's nothing for "just playback".
Disregard Internet Radio as well, as there are even more software solutions for them.
Thanks!