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Old March 22nd 16, 11:39 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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Default Quest continues for 'historic' info...

Thought I'd raise this here in case someone can help.

I've continued to do background research on the history of Armstrong Audio
/ Wireless in particular, but also other UK makes, etc in general. Since
the start of 2016 I've mainly been trawling pre-1960 issues of magazines,
back to the 1930 and collating what I'm finding.

However there are two things from the 1970s which I haven't been able to
find.

One is that - so far - I haven't been able to find a detailed magazine
review of the Armstrong 602 loudspeaker. This speaker design was only only
sale for a brief period. I've found a 'system' review that included it, but
it was clearly a weirdly mismatched collection of items and lacks any real
detail of the 602. I'm sure there must have been at least one 602 review,
but not yet found any.

I have Hi Fi News for the relevant years and am sure they didn't do one.
But it is possible that another mag like Hi Fi Choice did. So does anyone
have the copies of Hi Fi Choice or other mags from the period and can tell
me where such a review may be, please? I do have a few issues of Hi Fi
Choice from the 1970s, but not enough to exclude this. And I have almost no
issues of many other mags like the old Hi Fi Sound, etc, during the period.

Similarly, in the late 1970s I recall being told about a review of the
Armstrong 600 tuner (or receiver) which criticised the tuner for having an
early roll off in the HF and a 'dull' sound. In fact the tuner they'd been
sent had the USA de-emphasis by mistake. Again I'd love to find this review
now, but I've not yet located it. As above I guess it was in Hi Fi Choice
or some other magazine (not Hi Fi News).

More generally, can anyone suggest a book/magazine dealer I could get such
old issues of magazines from? One who has a real UK postal address and will
work via email and cheque-by-post, *not* ebay or amazon? This type of
secondhand dealer seems to have been killed off, alas.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Jim

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