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HiFi & History & Technical Wojtek on 22 Nov 2006

Vintage HiFi - supplement

OK, this won’t exactly be a “part 2″ of my previous post, that’s why I call it a supplement. I simply thought about some things related to the subject, which I forgot to write about. I won’t lie to you, this will mostly be another set of vintage audio gear benefits… simply couldn’t think of any downsides which I haven’t already mentioned before. Let’s continue…
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HiFi & History & Technical Wojtek on 19 Nov 2006

Vintage HiFi - what’s that ?

So, you probably have heard of vintage wine, vintage salami and so forth. In the High Fidelity world exists also a “vintage” term, most commonly known as vintage HiFi. So, what does it mean ? Well, as the “vintage” word implies, it generally means older HiFi equipment, be it turntables, amplifiers and other audio gear and in some cases even old TV sets and VCR’s also count.

Vintage video ain’t exactly my region of interest (well maybe except LD’s, but as far as I know people don’t put the “vintage” tag on this technology yet), so I’ll mostly stick to the vintage audio part of old HiFi…
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