World Hi-Fi Review 1981

[frayededges]

I wombled into a charity shop earlier, and picked up a copy of the World Hi-Fi Review from 1981. What a lovely book! Still with the fly-sheet.

What amazed me is how many of the items inside stayed in production for yonks, albeit they evolved a little - stuff like the Linn Sonndeck LP12, the NAD 3020 - also the Technics decks that were the source of the SL-1210.

For a quid, I'm delighted It's given me some info I was after on record decks (I now properly understand wow and flutter as well as rumble!), and it'll provide me with an evening or two of good reading.

 

[Beobloke]

I know what you mean - I have a copy, too and it has pride of place on my audio bookshelf!

 

[frayededges]

Lovely, isn't it? I can't believe how good some of the kit looks- the Micro Seiki decks look amazing, and when you consider that the design is over a quarter of a century old as well, it's astonishing.

 

[topoxforddoc]

I remember selling this stuff when I was younger!

Charlie

 

[frayededges]

Never! Lucky you. I wish I'd got into hi-fi as a nipper! Darn near 40 wasted years!

 

[Fatmarley]

I wish i hadn't got into hifi when i was younger - wasted nearly 15 darn years!

 

[frayededges]

Want to swap lives? I'd gladly be a hi-fi pro geek

 

[Fatmarley]

I have an obsessive personality. Similar too OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but without the obsessive washing bit. If swapping lives meant i'd be a normal human being (and didn't smell!) i'd gladly swap.

 

[Martyn Miles]

I've noticed old Hi-Fi Choice ( when it was a 'proper' mag., in the late '70s/early '80s ) going for higher & higher prices. Nostalia ?

 

[Michael L]

Pfft; nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

 

[Martyn Miles]

Re. 'Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.' You have to have on a few years...

 

[Martyn Miles]

sorry '...hang on a few years.'

 

[frayededges]

Well, I've read it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It now needs to be appreciated by someone else, methinks. I paid a quid for it, I'll swap it for the cost of a bottle of decent ale in my local, plus postage. Any takers?