Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In the late '40s the public would not have heard anything approaching what
we consider normal these days for sound reproduction - there was only AM
radio restricted by the lines feeding the transmitters to about kHz, and
of course 78 rpm records. And pretty well all reproducers used single unit
speakers - often large. Amplifiers were invariably SET. So their
perception of what was or wasn't musical was influenced by what they were
used to.

Maybe not what you would call hi-fi, but the public could actually listen to
jazz bands, orchestras, organ recitals and choral works. And they did have
access to Tannoy dual-concentrics and Leak or Quad push-pull amps.

Life wasn't all bad for our parents.

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Eiron

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