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I am looking for info on 2 defunct English mixer manufacturers : Chacadre (sometimes seen it spelled Chacaderance) and a company that called itself both ACES & Studio Magnetics (they also did open reel recorders), it would actually be fun to get background info on M&A as well. There are also brands that I can only find limited information on despite having seen or even owned products by, such as Baume, Körting, I am especially interested in knowing why the latter brand showed up on DDR made products in the 80's.

If you have any information on any of the company's or products here above and would be willing to share them with us, please be so kind as to get in touch via the address at the bottom of the page.

The site you are reading now started it's life as a links & info page dealing with hard disk recording on the Atari Falcon in 1994 and was hosted on the old Veda community server in Iceland, in 1996 we added a section on modular synthesis and there were a sundry small pages related to semi-pro audio and non related materials held out on a number of free community servers. They mostly languished during 97 and 98 due to work commitments but in 1999 when Veda and the rest of the "open" and "free" Internet resources suddenly morphed into a commercial organisations overnight and thus yours truly started to look for a new home for the hompages that I held out at the time, post haste. The audiotools.com domain had been registered a few weeks earlier with a vague intent of having a site that dealt with computer audio in general rather the sundry DAW related pages held out previously, the Bode pages were moved to the domain and a couple of pages providing info & links on open reel recorders and DAT machines were throw up there but behind an empty front page linked to from some of my other DAW recording pages with the intention of moving them elsewhere later.

In 2001 however I did notice that the open reel links page got more hits that the rest of my domains in total which indicated that there was a lack of such resources out there, and all that traffic that despite being difficult to find. Starting to read up on the Internet all I could find was either audiophile pornography or dubious information although I must admit that things have improved somewhat since, this origin of the current site as a links page explains the format of the pages (none of the pre 1999 DAW, pro audio and synthesis articles are currently used here and probably will never be) and due to frequent mails asking what the point and/or motivation behind audiotools.com is, the long and the short of it is that there is none, it's just a vaste of time and so is writing to me with philosophical questions on any of the material . but anyway that resulted in me starting to collect and publish information systematically. That continued until the summer of 2002 when the server that contained the site amongst others was stolen by an ex business associate and when I was trying to resurrect the site on a commercial ISP the hard disk that contained the backup copy of the site broke down, so the site was down for a year and no work was done on it, indeed parts of the site are still untouched since early June 2002. As for the quality of the English, it's not my first language, not my second or third either so the end result is bound to be a bit scrappy, and since the pages are automatically compiled it's not possible to spell check on each update....

If you want to sue, the address is :

Site conventions
Prices are usually given in Euros (€) since this is the currency used by most of our readers, however since we are based in the UK the Pound Sterling (£) sometimes creeps in when appropriate or when we forget to convert, note that a £ is roughly 1,4 € or so. For items usually only found in the USA or Japan values are often given in the native currencies i.e. in USD (US$) and Yen (¥), the conversion into dollars should not present a problem since it's only slightly cheaper than the €. Historical items often have their original prices displayed verbatim, so they might show up in defunct or little used currencies such as DM, DKr, Gs., ISKr, SKr and even Canadian Pesos. Note also that European conventions are usually used when prices are displayed i.e. 1,59 € is one Euro and 59 cents, ditto concerning billions, even though the English are rapidly taking up the American bad habit of calling a milliard a billion, we do no such thing, not a lot of hi-fi in that price range though (but does exist in countries with low value currencies).

Internal Linking
Unlike most similar sites all information presented here is consiouly atomised, ie it is broken down into the smallest and most specific objects possible to minimise multiple instances of the same information and to enable the reader to find relevant information that is contained on other apparently unrelated pages, this method makes extensive use of hyperlinks but less use of other HTML constructs. Currently there are over 20000 links on the site, or were the last time we counted them in mid 2002, and most subsections have a HTML A NAME tag, so if you want to link to a specific subsection or item you can do that by looking at the HTML source for the name tag and link to audiotools.com/pagename.html#subsectionaname. In the near future all subsections will have their own name tag, that is anything that has a bold text attribute will have an anchor.

Copyrights And Trademarks etc.
All textural material on this site is copyrighted and you may not distribute or reproduce it or parts thereof without a written consent of the owner (Contact Ólafur Gunnlaugsson if you need further info on that). Most pictures are also the property of Audiotools.com and the same principle applies there, some pictures are taken from publicity material made available to us (or the public at large) by the manufacturers themselves, in those cases the copyright is owned by the manufacturer of the device in question. Some visual material has been sent to us by various contributors and they are displayed here with their consent, the copyright of those objects is owned by the contributor (and their name is noted underneath each picture, if you need to contact the owners of those we can usually pass e-mail's to them via the address noted above). Finally were we have been unable to find any other sources of pictures we make use of pictures taken from a variety of auction sites such as Ebay, QXL or Ebid, in those instances the pictures were displayed there without a copyright clause and thus considered to be in the public domain, however if an owner of such a picture sees it used on this site and disapproves of it's use, we would be willing to remove them as a courtesy move

All trademarks used here are the property of their respective owners and referred to as such, if you see a trademark used as a generic term here it will be down to ignorance on our part and will be rectified if you just drop us a line.

Linking to and from the site
Listen kids, this is really simple, if you have a site that has anything to do with audio just send us a line and a link to it will (eventually) appear on this site, you will have to understand that we decide on what page it is placed and that while the scope of the site is reasonably broad it does not cover all aspects of audio by a long shot so a contextual placing is often not possible but we usually at the least add you to one of the linklists on the grey sidebars and create a new section there if need be, spamming us with link requests etc. will however result in removal of your company's section/link from the site. Under no circumstances will we link to non A/V related sites so do not bother writing us and asking for a link exchange, if you have created a link to our site beforehand in the hope of a reproical link, that will not happen, please delete the link to this site at the first opportunity, then go soak your head..

Thanks to everyone that has sent us new or updated links and or reports of dead ones, due to a lack of time, resources and even an internet connection in 2002 and 2004/5 it has not been possible to answer all these mails and some of them have been lost but I do appreciate all the info and the time you have aken and beg forgiveness for those that I have been so rude to as not to at the least aknowlegde reciept......... Big hugs and kisses to Richard Steinfeld for the information on the Benjamin, Metzner and ELAC Miraphon turntables. Thanks to Michael Gammon for the info on Audio Linear Turntables. The info on the Tesla and ZK tape recorders from Jan Rudziñski was appreciated.

... no thanks to all those timewasters .....