henry4841 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Found this googling this morning. HiFi was expensive compared to todays prices. https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-High-Fidelity/50s/High-Fidelity-1957-Oct.pdf High Fidelity magazine October 1957 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Thank you for posting this. It does bring back memories. Where did you locate it? Are there more like this available? There were several duplicate pages which threw off the numbering. An ad from Klipsch & Associates is on page 190 of the magazine, which due to the redundant pages is at page 197 of 215 of the link. What is an inflation adjustment from 1957 to 2020? Even without a specific multiplier, those 1957 prices seem high. For example, $525 for a Sony Superscope R2R was a lot of money in 1957. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator#bPinCkKB0U $4923 for the Sony RTR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry4841 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 I would have a hard time finding where I located this file. I do it all the time, look for a file I saw online and trying to find it again. I found it very interesting myself being a child of the 60's and 70's and waiting for all the rags new issues to come out. I still have some of them now but most got lost in moves and etc. What was impressive to me was in 1957 there was 215 pages. That changed in the 60's and 70's to less and less pages and price increases. There was a market way back them for diy'ers to buy and assemble kits which has virtually vanished now. One can still find kits from China but very few in the USA. I remember building a television kit and multiple meters and pre-amplifiers. Now I build mostly from just a schematic. Equipment kits are one thing that has vanished. The kits from that era bring premium prices on Ebay now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Thanks for sharing, a lot of info in those pages. I could spend all day reading that, but I have outdoor chores to do. A couple things I noticed... EV sure had a large presence in loudspeakers, they look great. Most of those companies were based on the east coast, mostly New York. Some of those prices seemed high for 67 years ago. Must have been a turntable war going on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry4841 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ceptorman said: EV sure had a large presence in loudspeakers, they look great. Sure did and the vintage speakers command a big price now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 1 hour ago, oldtimer said: https://smartasset.com/investing/inflation-calculator#bPinCkKB0U $4923 for the Sony RTR And they say the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang_flht Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Time travel 😄 https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/High-Fidelity-Magazine.htm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry4841 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, mustang_flht said: Time travel 😄 https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/High-Fidelity-Magazine.htm Thanks for finding this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry4841 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 And the one I liked the best. https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/HiFI-Stereo-Review.htm This site is a gold mine of ancient text. https://worldradiohistory.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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