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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Vintage Starkey Hearing Lab

via this auction
"this was originally built in 1977 for hear and speech sciences experimentation. Today some use this machine as synthesizer, gate, trig-processor or trig sequencer. This is very desirable and are rare. This one is from indiana state university, it was in the lab."

see the Starkey label below for more.





5 comments:

  1. Wow, isn't that a bit steep for a not so interesting testing machine?

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  2. If you can't hear what makes it special, perhaps a hearing aid ;)

    I think this is the ultimate 'Emperor Has No Clothes' machine.

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  3. The poor man's VCS3. Maybe the beggar's.

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  4. Cool design and for experimental sounds.. out of classic parameters, because born as test machine. Listen the youtube demos (write: Starkey Hearing Science)
    I have personally modified one of these...it is awesome!!

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  5. If you click on the Starkey label in this post you will find the vids. Let me know if I missed any.

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