The original double album was a slightly haphazard mix of standalone singles, select album highlights, live tracks and ...

Stereo was no different. As we explore in our recent book, “ Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America,” stereo needed to be sold to skeptical consumers.

RCA Living Stereo, along with Mercury Living Presence and the Decca classical catalogue, have been and will always be some of the best vinyl ever produced. Vinyl is special: you never quite hear the ...

By the late 1960s, stereo dominated sound reproduction, and album covers no longer needed to indicate “stereo” or “360 Sound.” Consumers simply assumed that they were buying a stereo record.

Our shop tour continues after the jump. It’s immediately apparent that In Living Stereo aims to make vinyl approachable, quite the opposite of the beau monde effect that plagues so many hi-fi stores.