Rediscovering the joy of classic hi-fi has proved a revelation for DickieMeaden...
A few weeks ago, I decided I was going to buy some old hi-fi equipment. Not just any old stuff, either, but specifically some Technics separates made and sold in the late 1980s. Big, beautiful, monolithic slabs of proudly Japanese electronic excellence.
Inevitably there’s a nostalgia aspect. Specifically, the opportunity to revisit my mid-to-late teens and build something approximating the system my dad bought after many visits to our local branch of the long defunct high-street hi-fi store Laskys. Browsing eBay might lack the sense of anticipation as we entered the warm, pungent and palpably charged atmosphere of the listening rooms, but it still transported me back 35 years.
As for the four-wheeled analogy, well, there’s not so much difference between music and cars, is there? Like modern motoring, the consumption and enjoyment of music has become split between the frictionless convenience and affordability of non-physical, streamed music – in other words our daily drivers – and the ritualised, fetishised and altogether more involved process of buying a physical collection of music and investing in bulky equipment made with the sole purpose of playing it.
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