WHAT’S THE FASCINATION WITH RETRO?

Technical editor Ketan Bharadia rues hi-fi’s growing infatuation with nostalgia

The High End Munich show has become the premier event for the hi-fi industry to show off its wares in Europe. This year it delivered the usual mix of the outlandish, the odd and the plain ordinary. Among the outrageously expensive systems and clever tech, it is quite clear that a significant chunk of the industry has embraced nostalgia. We’re not just talking of the number of record players being used this far into the digital age, or the relatively common sight of a valve amplifier in full glow. Alongside all that, it now seems fashionable to throw away the modern hi-fi design book and replace it with the kind of design and engineering we’d have seen fifty years ago. This was most obvious in the world of speakers where,…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2022

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