Golden Era of audio/Hi-Fi.

[Neil]

Yip 80's and 90s's i was also into hifi - when we lived in the uk for 2 years from 81 to 83 my dad bought an Amstrad ts-35 - this was when the double cassette deck had just been launched - and this amstrad was an all in one with double cassette deck and mic inputs - wow did this thing work well, it worked well for 15 years!!! by that time it was stukkend.   in 1991 i discovered audio video magazines and have collected them since then.

i went to high school "college" in town and i discovered Audiotronic - and Gary McCrystal still knows me if i bump into him, because every friday after school i would go sit there and listen to what he had put together, wadia, theta, audio research, I discovered Onkyo then - i had never heard of it but it bit me - i just loved the look of the onkyo and 5 years later - i bought myself a whole onkyo set - of which my letter still lives in the audio video magazine.  And i still love onkyo today - there is just something about their stuff that is one notch ahead of everybody else...I remember going on the saturday morning to go buy my cd player - the first component, and he brought his ferrari 355 in to work!  he parked it across the road and ran out the store every 2 minutes to see if it was ok...

Back in those days we had all those hifi shows at the parktonian hotel in braamfontein - i used to drag my mother around those shows - wow that was awesome - to listen to stuff you could never afford.

Those were the days!!!

[ODUODU]

Yes the nineties

There were still so many dedicated stereo systems around and tape decks were still in large scale production. There were still so many dedicated entry level seperate components companies like Denon, Rotel & Nad making quality stuff at excellent prices.

guess everything is about money now. excellent thread. captures the essence of what sound is about.