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> decent German and Japanese components Whoa there! Audio components were about the only thing the British still excelled at by that time.
by dboreham 1y ago
> decent German and Japanese components
Whoa there! Audio components were about the only thing the British still excelled at by that time.
- robotresearcher 1y agoBritish music of the 60s and 70s was pretty great to listen to on that hifi.
- ilamont 1y agoI wasn't aware of home hi-fi but British gear for musicians was widespread when I was growing up (Marshall, Vox, etc). I was specifically thinking of the components my father got through the Army PX in the 60s and the hi-fi gear I would see at some friends' houses in the decades that followed ... sometimes tech that never really took hold, such as reel-to-reel audio. Most of it was Japanese, and sometimes German. I still have a pair of his 1967 Sansui speakers in the basement (one with a blown woofer, unfortunately) and a working Yamaha natural sound receiver sitting next to my desk from about a decade later.
- robotresearcher 1y agoWharfedale (1920s) and Cambridge Audio (1960s) were there, and are still making great home hifi.