Laskys Wonderful World Of Audiotronics 1972 price list
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ToTo Man
the band not the dog
Those are the only pages the seller uploaded, unfortunately. The items that caught my eye were the KEF T27 and B110 for £4 and £6.80, respectively.
All this stuff seems remarkably cheap until you factor in inflation, of course. According to the BoE inflation calculator, £4 and £6.80 in 1972 equated to £42.24 and £71.80 in August 2022.
JensenHealey
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The good 'ol days.
As a teenager I used to catch a train to London a few times a year with a mate to walk down/gawp at Edgeware Road and Tottenham Court Road. All pretty much gone now. Got my first stereo 'system' that way, with a bet that I could do it for £20. Managed it for less than that and got an LP as well!
As a teenager I used to catch a train to London a few times a year with a mate to walk down/gawp at Edgeware Road and Tottenham Court Road. All pretty much gone now. Got my first stereo 'system' that way, with a bet that I could do it for £20. Managed it for less than that and got an LP as well!
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
A weeks wages.
How much is it today?
ciderglider
pfm Member
Odd to see upmarket gear being advertised in something with the same production values as Exchange & Mart. Whatever would Roy Gregory say?
Tony L
Administrator
A lot is supply and demand. Garrard sold 7000 301s or 401s a year. No idea how many SME 30s SME sell, but I’d bet at being able to count them on my fingers. Also factor in the almost total loss of manufacturing capability during Thatcher’s ‘80s. The sort of machine shop you need to use to build stuff has just gone, or at least gone to China.
I defy anyone to make something with as many expensive custom mouldings as say a 301, 401 or 124 in today’s market and with today’s production volumes. The only exception is Technics with the SL-1200, but that has a mass market well beyond two channel hi-fi. Pretty much everything else is very slowly CNC machined from solid as large-scale casting machinery is just so expensive, either that or band-sawn MDF. Very simple and cheap production compared to the injection moulding of the classics.
PS Same applies to speakers etc, really clever complex injection moulding in the pro-audio arena from Genelec, Neumann etc, band-sawn MDF in the home audio market. It is all about numbers, Genelec & Neumann sell enough loudspeakers to justify the huge tooling expense, home audio no longer does.
killie99
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Not everything was cheaper, did you see the price of the 7”tv, £42? Richer Sounds are selling a 32” tv today for £120 and I remember buying a 32” Sony about 20 years ago for £1500!
Tony L
Administrator
Can’t remember what my last CRT, a Sony KV-21X5U, cost. Likely a good bit more than my current 50” 4K job once inflation adjusted. I’ve still got it, dug it out again after many years of non-use for retro computing with my BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. It dates from around 98-99 and is a really good TV; early enough to still be 4/3 aspect ratio, but late enough to have Scart, which can take the BBC’s RGB signal. So pleased I didn’t chuck it out! So much better built and more serviceable than the current stuff.