SI: A Look Back At The 1966 Sony High Fidelity Components Color Catalog

[Christopher]

Here’s the cover art from a 1966 Sony Stereo High Fidelity Components color catalog, which shows quiet time around a STR-6050 receiver playing music, a PS-1800 record player and unseen loudspeakers. The catalog featured information about their range of home audio products at the time, which included their TTS-3000A turntable, PUA-237 and PUA-286 tonearms, TA-1120A integrated amplifier, ST-5000F stereo tuner, STR-6120 / STR-6060 / STR-6050 / STR-6040 stereo receivers, PS-1800 turntable system, TA-3400 electronic crossover, SS-3100 & SS-2800 speaker systems, and the TAH-10 headphone adapter. I was able to dig up more images (click to enlarge) of this ancient catalog – the times sure have changed with marketing:

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[Bonk]

Looks like Sony was going for an air of exclusivity back then. Definitely fancy schmancy at least, thanks for sharing!

[Strungup]

Where did you get that , That is the year I was born , The year of the coolest car ( 66 Mustang of course , but the Cobra could fall there to )

Things were different then eh !

[tds101]

1 year older than me, and bringing back the nostalgia!!!! Thanks for the glimpse of history, lovin' it!!!!

Also, I bet those components sound fantastic even today. Sony was known for great SQ even back then.