Songs that reference audio equipment

"with a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin" -- Elvis Costello

"it's even better this time around with Coltrane on the KLH" -- Donald Fagen

"War at 33 1/3 not really live I rather do it at 45" -- Public Enemy

"Freeker by the Speaker"
Keller Williams

 

Old Dan's Records
Gordon Lightfoot

(technically media, not audio equipment)

Alan Parson's

Stereotomy

Modern Music, by art rockers, Be Bop Deluxe, a criminally forgotten band, IMO.

The song starts with the sound of a radio tuner moving up and down the dial.

Lyrics:

Modern music on my radio
Another station and another show
If only I could let my feelings flow to you...
When you're lonely and you're far away
When those steel guitars begin to play
Please don't let them steal your heart away from me...

I hear the rhythm of the rain begin
A shining broadcast on the silver wind
Will you receive these programmes deep within your soul?
The moon is melting in the blazing sky
I hear the flames sing but I don't know why
I hope that only shadows see me cry for you...