my blu tac was white tac but its £1.50 is audibly better than a mains cable or interconnect upgrade
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I'm not sure about the 'pound for pound' but it probably would have to be something that stud the test of time, is perhaps still used in updated form. Therefore my vote would go to either Quad ESL electrostatics or Rogers (Harbeth/Stirlings) LS3/5A's.
May I add that unfortunately I never used/heard the former.
May I add that unfortunately I never used/heard the former.
Not a product, but a development: the fact that manufacturers kept making new hi fi products at the rate that they did. This left us with a very wide range of budget products to choose from and a healthy second hand market. Thanks to that I got a Pioneer SA 506 and a Thorens TD 160 for very little money. Pound for pound an unbeatable set up.
mikegtar:Queue Blu Tac vs White Tac debate .... 🙂
I aint predjudiced, I don't care what colour it is......
I aint predjudiced, I don't care what colour it is......
Octopo:
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
PJPro:Octopo:
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
In that case I think the piano is the best hi-fi product of the past 40 years. Only 400 years out but hey, what the heck.
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
In that case I think the piano is the best hi-fi product of the past 40 years. Only 400 years out but hey, what the heck.
Octopo:PJPro:Octopo:
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
In that case I think the piano is the best hi-fi product of the past 40 years. Only 400 years out but hey, what the heck.
You do yourself a disservice, you're only 270 years out ;-)
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
In that case I think the piano is the best hi-fi product of the past 40 years. Only 400 years out but hey, what the heck.
You do yourself a disservice, you're only 270 years out ;-)
PJPro:Octopo:PJPro:Octopo:
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
In that case I think the piano is the best hi-fi product of the past 40 years. Only 400 years out but hey, what the heck.
You do yourself a disservice, you're only 270 years out ;-)
But what the heck.
PJPro:The integrated chip?
Cheat. OP said 40 years.
Yes, I'm just out (by 20 years ;-))....hence the question mark. But hey, what the heck.
In that case I think the piano is the best hi-fi product of the past 40 years. Only 400 years out but hey, what the heck.
You do yourself a disservice, you're only 270 years out ;-)
But what the heck.
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PJPro:
But what the heck.
If it were the best hi-fi product ever debate I believe you would be incorrect anyway because it is not a hi-fi product. But hey...
But what the heck.
If it were the best hi-fi product ever debate I believe you would be incorrect anyway because it is not a hi-fi product. But hey...
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Octopo:PJPro:
But what the heck.
If it were the best hi-fi product ever debate I believe you would be incorrect anyway because it is not a hi-fi product. But hey...
OK, I'm incorrect. Happy?
But what the heck.
If it were the best hi-fi product ever debate I believe you would be incorrect anyway because it is not a hi-fi product. But hey...
OK, I'm incorrect. Happy?
Re: Monsieur JohnDuncan: Rega Planar 2
You must be kidding! I'd put the Pioneer PL-12D above that. The CD is not pound for pound value to me. Remember how much they cost when CDs first came out and it is only now that kids are ripping stuff of the Internet that CDs have become more reasonably priced...not pound for pound then 🙂.
Its difficult to measure, I would suggest the cheap mainstream transistor radio (valve afficionados will beg to differ)...think about it though. Not many could afford to buy records and CDs in the last 40 or 20 years. All they had was a radio! This leads on to the ghetto blaster...remember those 1970s/80s blacksploitation movies and kids looking cool with those huge cassette/radio portables sitting on one shoulder. If you thought ASBOs are bad now, I remember when noise pollution was really bad...cue Alf Garnet!
You must be kidding! I'd put the Pioneer PL-12D above that. The CD is not pound for pound value to me. Remember how much they cost when CDs first came out and it is only now that kids are ripping stuff of the Internet that CDs have become more reasonably priced...not pound for pound then 🙂.
Its difficult to measure, I would suggest the cheap mainstream transistor radio (valve afficionados will beg to differ)...think about it though. Not many could afford to buy records and CDs in the last 40 or 20 years. All they had was a radio! This leads on to the ghetto blaster...remember those 1970s/80s blacksploitation movies and kids looking cool with those huge cassette/radio portables sitting on one shoulder. If you thought ASBOs are bad now, I remember when noise pollution was really bad...cue Alf Garnet!
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limbok:, I would suggest the cheap mainstream transistor radio
The operative word in the title is 'hifi'.
I had any number of cheap transistor radios as a kid (and cheap cassette players) but my first proper hifi was a Sansui SR-222 Mk2 and a NAD 3020 amp with Celestion speakers and a Technics cassette deck.
The operative word in the title is 'hifi'.
I had any number of cheap transistor radios as a kid (and cheap cassette players) but my first proper hifi was a Sansui SR-222 Mk2 and a NAD 3020 amp with Celestion speakers and a Technics cassette deck.
Eeek!. If I suggested the Sony Walkman (yes the cassette model), I suspect half the posters wouldn't know what I'm talking about.
I would suspect a "walkman" far exceeds an Ipod in terms of popularity and product sales but its obviously not of current fame. It would be interesting what the majority of Whathifi readers would vote for?
...pan to my Nakamichi cassette deck gathering dust.
...pan to my Nakamichi cassette deck gathering dust.
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