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  • Paul Webster
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2005
    • 10349
    #1

    1959 report on audiophiles

    From an old BBC Monitor (arts programme)

    https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1381615591212089344
    Paul Webster
    Author of "Now Playing" plugins covering Radio France (FIP etc), PlanetRadio (Bauer - Kiss, Absolute, Scala, JazzFM etc), KCRW, ABC Australia and CBC/Radio-Canada
    and, via the extra "Radio Now Playing" plugin lots more - see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...Playing-plugin
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    • chill
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 2233
      #2
      Fantastic. "Machines more sensitive than the ears they play to." I wonder what he'd have made of today's super high res stuff.

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        • Man in a van
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 6902
          #3
          Cue more posts about "licking the road clean"

          ronnie

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            • kidstypike
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2007
              • 6444
              #4
              Originally posted by Man in a van
              Cue more posts about "licking the road clean"

              ronnie

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                • mrw
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2010
                  • 1083
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Paul Webster
                  From an old BBC Monitor (arts programme)

                  https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/statu...15591212089344
                  Very enjoyable, thanks. John Schlesinger directed.

                  Here is link to “original” on BBC web-site, for those who may like to browse further.
                  Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum
                  https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hi-fi-fo-fum/zjt6kmn
                  Monitor made a short film called Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum, about a burgeoning phenomenon; the audiophile.

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                    • expectingtofly
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2014
                      • 1105
                      #6
                      Originally posted by mrw
                      Very enjoyable, thanks. John Schlesinger directed.

                      Here is link to “original” on BBC web-site, for those who may like to browse further.
                      https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hi-fi-fo-fum/zjt6kmn
                      That's wonderful!
                      Stuart McLean

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                        • garym
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                          • May 2008
                          • 13540
                          #7
                          My favorite post this year!!!
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                            • P Nelson
                              Senior Member
                              • Nov 2012
                              • 794
                              #8
                              The part of the video when the group is trying to find the imaging sweet spot made me laugh! Then the comment “machines more sensitive than the ear they play to”! It is a good thing I did not take that sip of tea while listening to the video as it would have been expelled during my laughter.

                              In the analogue world it was tubes, today it is bit rates and choice of DACs.

                              Paul
                              Last edited by P Nelson; 2021-04-14, 19:04. Reason: grammar

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                                • Tex
                                  Senior Member
                                  • May 2009
                                  • 193
                                  #9
                                  Tubes rule

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                                    • RobbH
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                                      • Jun 2017
                                      • 1292
                                      #10
                                      Can anybody identify any classic gear in the 1959 video? I thought those might be Wharfedale speakers in the stereo demonstration.
                                      Usually running latest beta LMS nightly on Raspberry Pi OS with a mix of Squeezebox Radio, Boom, Touch, and virtual players.

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                                        • Paul Webster
                                          Senior Member
                                          • Apr 2005
                                          • 10349
                                          #11
                                          screengrab
                                          Click image for larger version Name: Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum.png Views: 1 Size: 113.4 KB ID: 1571942

                                          Perhaps ...
                                          Tannoy Canterbury
                                          Click image for larger version Name: tannoy.jpg Views: 1 Size: 30.4 KB ID: 1571943

                                          From https://auction.gorringes.co.uk/asp/...refno=10339460
                                          Paul Webster
                                          Author of "Now Playing" plugins covering Radio France (FIP etc), PlanetRadio (Bauer - Kiss, Absolute, Scala, JazzFM etc), KCRW, ABC Australia and CBC/Radio-Canada
                                          and, via the extra "Radio Now Playing" plugin lots more - see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...Playing-plugin

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                                            • slartibartfast
                                              Senior Member
                                              • Jan 2010
                                              • 13863
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Paul Webster
                                              screengrab
                                              [ATTACH]34190[/ATTACH]

                                              Perhaps ...
                                              Tannoy Canterbury
                                              [ATTACH]34191[/ATTACH]

                                              From https://auction.gorringes.co.uk/asp/...refno=10339460
                                              Estimate £200-300, sold for £4800, wow.

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                                                • Jeff07971
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                                                  • Aug 2011
                                                  • 1900
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by slartibartfast
                                                  Estimate £200-300, sold for £4800, wow.

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                                                  I think a lot of the Tannoys are well overpriced for their SQ

                                                  All the DC ones I've heard sound massively bright and coloured to me and the older they are the worse they are.

                                                  Apparently they appeal to some
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                                                    • Paul Webster
                                                      Senior Member
                                                      • Apr 2005
                                                      • 10349
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by Jeff07971
                                                      I think a lot of the Tannoys are well overpriced for their SQ

                                                      All the DC ones I've heard sound massively bright and coloured to me and the older they are the worse they are.

                                                      Apparently they appeal to some
                                                      I don't imagine that a speaker from 1958 is going to sound fantastic - but I presume that the person who paid nearly 5000GBP for it was interested in more than the SQ.
                                                      Paul Webster
                                                      Author of "Now Playing" plugins covering Radio France (FIP etc), PlanetRadio (Bauer - Kiss, Absolute, Scala, JazzFM etc), KCRW, ABC Australia and CBC/Radio-Canada
                                                      and, via the extra "Radio Now Playing" plugin lots more - see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...Playing-plugin

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                                                        • garym
                                                          Senior Member
                                                          • May 2008
                                                          • 13540
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by Paul Webster
                                                          I don't imagine that a speaker from 1958 is going to sound fantastic - but I presume that the person who paid nearly 5000GBP for it was interested in more than the SQ.
                                                          Yep. My Subaru Forester is so much better on almost every dimension than a 1956 Porche 356 or a 1967 VW Microbus. But I'd pay a LOT more for a pristine 56 Porche or VW Microbus.
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