Comments on: When Hi Fi was a hobby, not an industry https://www.preservationsound.com/when-hi-fi-was-a-hobby-not-an-industry/ information and ideas about audio history Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: rrusston https://www.preservationsound.com/when-hi-fi-was-a-hobby-not-an-industry/#comment-19004 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:27:18 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4653#comment-19004 Those were the GOOD old days, when you had to be an electronic technician first and an audiophile second. You learned fast. Most “hi-fi nuts” were ham operators or had worked in electronics. It became consumerized in the late 50s and hasn’t been as fun since.

Ed Dell published “The Audio Amateur” in 1970 to try to get some of the old school feeling back, but DIYers were only about one percent of the relatively high end market ever again. In Japan, the numbers were and are quite different, as any perusal of a Japanese hi fi magazine will show. They are fascinating to read even if you can’t read Japanese.

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