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When did Hi-Fi get good?
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<blockquote data-quote="Agaton Sax" data-source="post: 1069565" data-attributes="member: 2475"><p>Hi-Fi became good in 1928 when Wente and Thuras designed the compression driver. It became a reality in 1932 when Western Electric coupled that 555 driver to a horn. Hi-Fi got better in 1940-1945 when AEG applied AC bias to recording tape. It got better in 1958 when the microgroove stereo LP was released.</p><p></p><p>The golden age of Audio is generally considered to be the period 1954 to 1962. The "High End" as a concept originated in the early 1980s</p><p></p><p>Hi-Fi started getting bad in 1949 with the release of the EL 34 tube, worse in the late 60s-early 70s when bored BBC engineers applied more and more goop to speaker drivers, then started making dreadful heavy, slow, plastic driver cones and eventually a copper-domed tweeter that killed all high-frequency sparkle forever. It further slid in 1979 when Philips got Herbert von Karajan to advertise CD with his "All else is gaslight" tripe. Nothing wrong with the Tech, just too little too soon.</p><p></p><p>All of the above in jest. Maybe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agaton Sax, post: 1069565, member: 2475"] Hi-Fi became good in 1928 when Wente and Thuras designed the compression driver. It became a reality in 1932 when Western Electric coupled that 555 driver to a horn. Hi-Fi got better in 1940-1945 when AEG applied AC bias to recording tape. It got better in 1958 when the microgroove stereo LP was released. The golden age of Audio is generally considered to be the period 1954 to 1962. The "High End" as a concept originated in the early 1980s Hi-Fi started getting bad in 1949 with the release of the EL 34 tube, worse in the late 60s-early 70s when bored BBC engineers applied more and more goop to speaker drivers, then started making dreadful heavy, slow, plastic driver cones and eventually a copper-domed tweeter that killed all high-frequency sparkle forever. It further slid in 1979 when Philips got Herbert von Karajan to advertise CD with his "All else is gaslight" tripe. Nothing wrong with the Tech, just too little too soon. All of the above in jest. Maybe. [/QUOTE]
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