TAGG – ISSUE 19 flipbook
Flick through the TAGG issue 16 flipbook including Melbourne’s live music gig guide for 14th to 27th March, 1980!
The TAGG time capsule series
TAGG – ISSUE 19.
In this TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide time capsule series, you can revisit the Melbourne live music scene from 1979-1981.
Each issue featured the all important issue gig guide, reviews, venue locations, interviews and stories. Australia’s original street press was the perfect printed back pocket friend filled with everything a live music lover needed to know each fortnight.
We’re working our way through digitising TAGG’s back catalogue so you can relive (for those who were there) revisit (for those who weren’t and those who don’t recall) the original issues of the magazine on the TAGG website. cool hey!
TAGG – ISSUE 19 – Table of contents:
Includes the all important gig guide for 14th to 27th March, 1980
4. TAGG file – Stan Rofe
9. Mail bags
11. Tagg magg
17. Confirmed concert dates
19. Listings – Mar 14-20
25. Rock lobster
30. Gigs of our lives (cartoon)
32. TAGG minifold – Broderick Smith’s Big Combo
34. Venue locations
41. Who’s recording where
43. Listings – Mar 21-27
46. 3RRR Top 40
48. Radio pointers
50. Gig review – The Hard Cases
52. Hi-fi feature
56. Consumer guide
61. Services directory
63. Classifieds
We hope you enjoy flipping through TAGG – issue 19!
TAGG – ISSUE 19 excerpt…
Page 52 Hi-Fi for the average punter
By Dr Luck
Hi, Hello, Bonjour! This is the first in a series of articles to try and explain some of the mysterious terms and specifications that make up the hi-fi world of today.
In later installments I’ll be breaking down the hi-fi system into it’s various components, i.e. speakers, turntables, tape decks etc. I’ll be taking a look at how they work, their characteristics, how to set them up for best results, and possible problems that might occur with them.
Hopefully I won’t bore you with a lot of useless information, and I won’t be comparing brand A against brand B.
I’d also like to have a later look at the future and attempt to explain digital recording and its potential impact.
So, with the intention of giving you, the loyal TAGG reader, a broad outlook on hi-fi, here we go…
A is for amplifier.
The amplifier is the heart of the system. All signals, whether from tuners, records or tapes pass through the amplifier before going to the loud-speakers.
Signal levels from sources such as tuners or tapedecks are generally than those from the turntable. But all these levels must be pre-amplified so that they can drive the power amplifier. The turntable pre-amplifier performs this basic task.
Another task it performs is that of equalization.
Equalisation in an amplifier restores a “flat” frequency response, so that all frequencies are restored to their original “equal” balance. The reason equalization is needed is that in a recording the bass frequencies are cut back and the high frequencies boosted. This is a problem to do with the actual cutting of a record, something we will look into…
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