30 Years ago
What HIFI mags would we have been reading 30 years ago. Are they still in print today or have they all been swallowed up and taken over.
I was influenced by one mag and ended up with a Rega Planer 2 T/T , Heybrook speakers and the Arcam A60 Int amp.
25 - 30 years ago or so I would have been reading HiFi News & Record Review. (As an impressionable late teen - early 'twenty-something' I enjoyed a long read and lots of tests/graphs/company histories etc.)
The others (even though I bought plenty of them in the early-mid 1980s) sort of 'blend' into one big amorphous Linn/Naim 'fanzine'. (One mag even had the same 'system upgrade diagram' in every issue, for years, which was, basically, a Linn/Naim upgrade path.)
That is a very unreliable memory, and highly unfair on the many talented writers I have just lumped in together (!) but that's how I remember it. Sorry.
I stopped reading hifi mags regularly around 1987 (they got very silly) and stopped reading hifi mags altogther from about 1990 until 2008.
I have bought about 10 copies of WHF and a couple of 'Ultimate Guides' in the last 2 - 3 years.
Clare..will the mag be going a little retro and showing us what what was available 35 years ago. Would be very interesting,to compare and read about what was hot 35 years ago.
Yep, hopefully (archive trawling permitting!) we'll be getting all nostalgic later this year 
Music centres ahoy!
Clare Newsome:Yep, hopefully (archive trawling permitting!) we'll be getting all nostalgic later this year
With some suitable 35th year competition give away hopefully...
Andrew Everard:Music centres ahoy!
Andrew Everard:Music centres ahoy!
We had a Philips one when I was a teenager (about 20 years ago), gleaming silver, tape deck, radio and turntable, wide and flat, that's what I used to listen to my PWEI vinyl on originally, happy days, wonder what the old man did with it?
Yes there were some very 'snazzy' ones around...
Looked better in the dark with all the lights. Decent Dual TT as well.
Speakers were spherical...
Very 'Jason King'.
Early/mid 80's, I used to read New HiFiSound and HiFi Answers if I recall the names correctly. There was also High Fidelity, but I think that might've been a little later. I've still got some knocking around somewhere....
Good....keep us all informed as to when this copy of the mag is on sale. I have a feeling it will sell quickly
Chebby...is that the Audyessy thingy for music centre setups. 
They are the old Grundig Audiorama speakers.
And you can now buy them again...
http://www.grundig.de/index.php?id=1090&L=1 (Warning bad audio commentary alert.)
Although they are elliptical now.
FrankHarveyHiFi:Early/mid 80's, I used to read New HiFiSound and HiFi Answers if I recall the names correctly. There was also High Fidelity, but I think that might've been a little later. I've still got some knocking around somewhere....
New Hi-Fi Sound became High Fidelity, and Hi-Fi Answers begat Audiophile, both of blessed memory. I was involved in both relaunches, but in time we realised, as the current magazine market has proved, that there's not a lot of money to be made in publishing high-end hi-fi titles in the print arena. Pity really...
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Well we celebrate our 35th anniversary this year.
But there are older publications still
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Former Group Editor of What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision and Whathifi.com
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