An excellent backgrounder on PMR, thank you. I began reading it a decade
ago at the Boston Public Library, which has an impressive historical
collection of such magazines (PMR, Etude, Diapason etc.). Besides having
covered the topics described, the staff also from time to time undertook to
evaluate reproduction gear. A couple years ago I wrote a column on that
topic, with an emphasis on how like today's high-end audio writers the PMR
people sound. In other words, measurements were not performed (were indeed
well-nigh impossible) so they relied on the ear alone. Here it is:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue78/cj_gramophone.htm As it happens
the magazine was published in my neighborhood so I included photography of
the houses.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Mason Vander Lugt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The National Recording Preservation Board has posted Phonograph Monthly
> Review to Archive.org. Phonograph Monthly Review was a magazine about
> records of classical music, published 1927-1932, and was important in the
> formation of record collecting culture. I've written a post about the
> magazine for the ARSC blog, which you can see by clicking the link below,
> or
> go directly to the magazines using the link below that. Enjoy!
>
> http://arsc-audio.org/blog/2016/10/27/phonograph_monthly_review/
>
> https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject3A%
> 22Phonograph+Monthly+Review%22&sort=date
>
> Mason Vander Lugt
> Recorded Sound Processing Technician
> National Recording Preservation Board Assistant
> National AV Conservation Center
> Library of Congress
> (202) 707-0358
>