Audible Images - History

1997 - 2025
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The name Audible Images has a long history in the Boyd family.

In 1980, my father Tom Boyd took a leave from his career as an architect to found an audiophile-focused cassette publisher which he named Audible Images.

Because the internet never forgets -- even things it didn't know in the first place! -- here is a link to an archived article from Billboard Magazine (Oct.18, 1980) announcing the launch of the company, and a set of reviews of the first titles from Audio Magazine (November 1981).

It was growing up around this business that I gained my love of recording, and then a few years later I was gifted some of the gear to use myself. I was likely the only high school kid mixing down cassette 4-tracks onto a Sony PCM-10 in 1987.

A decade or so later, in 1997, I was looking for a name for my sound and music production service. My father offered me the use of Audible Images, which I found touching. A graphic designer friend pitched the optical-illusion tuning fork as a logo, and the brand was reborn.

(I registered the domain name audibleimages.com in 1997 -- when the only legal way to do so was through Network Solutions. What a time!)

Since then I've offered sound and music contracting services, in several stints, under that mantle. Between 1997-1998 (Nascar 98, QuickTime 3 Logo, Baseball Mogul, ZapMe, NetworkLive, Electric Planet), then 2011-2013 (Warp, Shank 2, Dead Space 3, Chabot Planetarium, Tower Wars), and 2022 to the present.