Talk:The Fisher

I am the creator of this page. Someone hacked this page, removed all the fisher tube photos and replaced with a photo of a band supposedly named the Fisher. I have restored the page. Peterwolfs May 27th, 2013

If anyone has an original photo of a Fisher tube kit, please feel free to add a photo with caption to the gallery. Thanks "peterwolfs" March 04, 2007 Peterwolfs 00:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The Fisher" vs "Fisher"

Article needs a source for the assertion that the name is "The Fisher" --Lexein (talk) 19:44, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The name "THE FISHER" could be considered the idiomatic title given to the product of Avery Fisher's Fisher radio corporation in the golden years of High Fidelity tube and transistor manufacture. To refer to a thing of undisputed stature or achievement appropriately commands the use of the article 'the'. i.e. 'The President', 'The top Forty', 'The Rolls Royce'.

Fisher is widely acknowleged as the primary inventor of the concept of High Fidelity/Definition as THE criteria for the design and manufacter of electronic home entertainment products. The movement toward every more effecective means to create audio/video experience from the leading edge of the industry can find its roots in the inventions of Avery Fisher and others over sixty years ago.

By todays standard, we have had Television, and now we have High Definition television, Blue ray, etc. In the early to mid twentieth century we had radios and phonographs, and THEN Hi Fi's, sic. High Fidelity, High end, High technology equipment of which Avery Fisher was THE foremost contributor. Thus, Fisher products were associated with the prestige of ownership. THE FISHER was very much a status symbol, along with Cadillac, Porche,Rolls Royce, Steinway, Aeolian-Skinner, ect. THE FISHER was the official title of the products of Fisher radio corporation until shortly after 1970. Mr. Fisher's corporation became the property of Emerson Electric, and later, a division of Sanyo Electronics. In those years following, the characteristics that Fisher products normally reflected disapeared rapidly! The products built by the new version of Fisher, while competent in manufacture, were not anywhere close to that which characterized the product called THE FISHER.

At about that time, Fisher products were no longer hand crafted and tested in Long Island City, New York. They were manufactered in Japan or China. Eventually the Long Island plant closed its doors and the company base was moved to Chatsworth California. From the time of the early seventies on, the company no longer called the product THE FISHER but simply Fisher. THE FISHER was simply no longer applicable because the caliber of equipment and company goals were radically reorientated---much to the great dissapointment of Audiophiles and THE FISHER loyalists--some of whom are still using our THE FISHER equipment to this day. If a product says THE FISHER, has an emblem of a dove with a note in its mouth, has a beige or brown power cord, and reads on the back: The Fisher Radio Corporation, 11-40, 45th Road, Long Island City, New York, Manufactured in The U.S.A., Then you may be certain that it is a "THE FISHER" component with its concomitant superior features. The tube chassis, are the most collectable--yet the Transistor series, and Professional Series, solid state recievers from the sixties are quite remarkable in performance. The Fisher 440-T sounds almost exactly like a tube chassis, and the model 500TX, Avery Fisher's 'swansong' reciever had a heavty 55 watt per channel, sine wave RMS 20hz to 20kHz, that would push incredible, transparent sound of any genre from even the most inneficient speakers!68.12.158.52 (talk) 02:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose that Fisher Electronics be merged into The Fisher. I see no reason why they should be listed separately, and the lack of information on both articles regarding their relationship can cause confusion to some. Amp71 (talk) 21:31, 20 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why do that? This article is more extensive, and is focused on vintage/collectible tube equipment from the 1950's and early 1960's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterwolfs (talk • contribs) 20:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fisher Electronics needs to be place in The Fisher. Whether you like or hate the later Fisher models, the brand name is just Fisher or The Fisher and not Fisher Electronics. Engradio 19, February 2013