"Eiron" wrote in message
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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.



The percentage of the population that could get to 'quality music
performances' on a regular basis was probably even less (if it were
possible) than vinyl users today.....

(No - *really*....!! ;-)


And they did have
access to Tannoy dual-concentrics and Leak or Quad push-pull amps.


So do I.....



Life wasn't all bad for our parents.


I believe WW2 took the shine off it for some of them, for a while......