Mating Call of the Humboldt Penguin

Buy our speakers because they sexually excite penguins!

What Hi-Fi? magazine - 1988

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 27, 2020
Category: Advertising | 1980s

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It was probably as close as they dared get to the "His Master's Voice" picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice

Posted by Stuart on 04/27/20 at 06:44 AM

The stereo equipment industry has a long trail of weird geegaws and doodads that are claimed to be the ultimate for use in sound reproduction. The most outrageous I remember from the 1980's was the "Oxygen-soaked Copper Speaker Cable" claimed to pass the audio signal more efficiently than plain copper wiring. The claim was never substantiated.

Posted by KDP on 04/27/20 at 10:20 AM

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