Howdy All:

One of my 'hobbies' is tracing the history of Hi-Fi, and collecting vintage gear. I have a collection of Hi-Fi magazines from the 50's, and one theme runs through them all: everyone is bemoaning the rapid pace of technological change and the rapidity of obsolescense of their gear. The change from 78 RPM to 33 1/3 rd, Mono to Stereo, new amplifiers and speakers, acoustic suspension speakers, tape recorders, and the fact that they had _several_ equalization standards for their mono LPs before the RIAA curve finally became the one standard (sound familiar?), triode vacuum tubes verses pentode vacuum tubes, FM, then FM stereo. It's really fun to read what the audiophiles of the day went through. It was just as messy as it is today in so many ways.

Food for thought....

[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited December 08, 2002).]