Off The Record

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Record Label: Audio Fidelity

Categories: Audiophile, Test Record

Catalogue Number: FCS 50,000

Cover Art: Not known, possibly illustrated by Irving Sloane

Copyrighted: 1959

Side 1 – The Tests: Metronome, 1Khz Sine Wave Test Tone, 25 Seconds of Silence, High Frequency Sine Wave Test Tones, Low Frequency Sine Wave Test Tones, Sweep Test Tone 70 to 15 Hz, Phasing (white noise signals), Musician’s “A” – 440 Hz, U.S. Government Standard,  3KHz Left channel and 800 Hz Right Channel, 800 Hz Left Channel and 3 KHz Right Channel.

Side 2 – Music Selections by the Virtuoso Symphony of London: Rakoczy March, March From “Aida”, Polovetzian Dances, March From Coq d’ Or, Russian Sailor’s Dance.

The First Component Series Stereo Test Record (released by AF in 1959) is a more or less standard issue test record, but there is something unusual about the mastering on side 1 that I don’t think any other test record has done.

Each test is in it’s own individual track, but there is no link between each test, so instead of the normal 1 continuous groove on side 1, it has instead 10.

The closest we ever had since then was an “anti skid band” on British Decca’s 1960’s LP “How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check Out” (SKLA 4861)