I love some of those old adverts for gear. I don't know if you've seen this old Marantz advert from about 1973/4 - one of my favourites.
http://us.marantz.com/68.asp
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I love some of those old adverts for gear. I don't know if you've seen this old Marantz advert from about 1973/4 - one of my favourites.
http://us.marantz.com/68.asp
Sheer class! That would make a brilliant poster :)
Marco.
Ah the 1970s! Political correctness was unknown in those far flung days - any excuse to employ a scantily clad female to drape over cars and hi-fi. Just look at some of the Monty Python sketches from that time.
Not that I'm complaining; but then I'm not female.
Regards
(PS I've got a Uher tape machine that's pictured there)
Don't worry Barry i can take it :lol:
Hehehe - what are you like! :lol:
Cables most certainly make a difference (as Barry himself knows only too well), but there's no need to use anything more "specialised" than the likes of what Mark Grant supplies..... Anything more expensive than that is for dafties with more money than sense! :mental:
Anyway, did someone mention scantily clad women draped over hi-fi?
Who remembers the 1970s magazine 'Hi-fi for Pleasure', which regularly featured a cornucopia of stocking-clad maidens adorning its front covers? Oi lurved it (even though my copies usually ended up getting, erm, somewhat 'soggy') :eyebrows:
Marco (Who says: 'Get it right up ye' to political correctness!! :ner:)
I got my mug in HiFi For Pleasure, but not scantily clad I'm afraid....
The HiFi shows were really great too, very well attended, loads of freebies for dealer-staff and leaflets/booklets by the rain-forest load......
Ah, memories of my "virginity............"
Hi Barry,
Completely agree! :)Quote:
think you know my views on cables Marco. As long as they use good quality cable, good quality connectors and are made with care, there is no need to use anything more exotic. If a change of cables makes a significant difference, then either there was something wrong with original cables, or there is something wrong with the items between which the cables connect. Cables should never be used to compensate for deficiencies in the electronics, i.e. used as tone controls.
Hahaha.... A mixture of both probably! Let's remember that I was about 15 at the time... I divided my time equally between reading that, 'Shoot' football magazine, '2000AD' and 'Razzle' ;)Quote:
I remember those Hi-fi for Pleasure mags. Was it the covers, or was it the photographs in the equipment reviews, that eventually caused the pages of your magazines become stuck together?
The best issue of 'Hi-fi for Pleasure' was where a fishnet stocking-clad girly was wearing a garter belt full of cartridges!! Does anyone remember that?
She's not really a feminist, and as the mag was from the 70s, she'd just laugh! :eyebrows:Quote:
What is Del's opinion on the use of scantily clad women for advertising purposes?
Marco.
Dammit.... I had 'visions' of you in a pair of fishnets! :lol:
Pity there aren't any hi-fi mags around these days like this:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/8...ewithahifi.jpg
Class... What a novel way to keep the draught out....! :eyebrows:
Marco.
You're a bad influence on me! :lolsign: :lolsign:
Marco.
Our very own HiFi Dave wrote for HiFi For Pleasure. No doubt he can share a few stories..............
If HiFi is no longer a pleasure, then maybe we need a new title HiFi For Pain :eek: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Regards D S D L
What you wouldn't want on a hi-fi magazine cover is something like this...........
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4098/grahampeck.jpg
:spew: :eyebrows:
Andre'll get that one!
Marco.
Better with something like this.... Andre's dream system):
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8996/retrohifiad.jpg
;)
Marco.
You recognised him!! :lol:
No, just a wee snigger-ette, 'tis all ;)
Marco.
Back on track :eyebrows:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...SIN/Sony-1.png
Quality!
Let's see who can make up the most 'interesting' captions for what the bloke and the two girls might be saying to each other...... :eyebrows:
Marco.
P.S Lol @ "Frolic" :lol:
"ummmmmmmmm I think one speaker is louder than the other !"
Ahhhhhhh!!!!! So that's stereo"
"Who cares about a proper HIFI table"
Regards D S D L
Now then people, enough of this nonsense!
Let's try and be sensible here - let's get back to the matter in hand.
http://retrothing.typepad.com/.a/6a0...47a9970b-800wihttp://retrothing.typepad.com/.a/6a0...489e970b-800wi
..............now is that cool or what?
Way-Hey, how about more sounds on the move?!
http://discretemusic.files.wordpress.../07/s_welk.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JfmYtoWg4v...A4o/s400/1.jpg
Hifi For Pleasure always baffled me. I mean, would you want hifi that wasn't for pleasure; that turned you into a geek wanting to try out that latest tweak in a doomed attempt to find perfection, listening obsessively to the same track from 'Love Over Gold' time and time again?
It was just a name of an audio magazine. There were plenty of others around in the 70's and '80s:
Popular Hi-Fi - would you wan't it to be 'Unpopular Hi-Fi'?
Practical Hi-Fi (and Audio) - 'Impractical Hi-Fi' ?
Hi-Fi for Pleasure - 'Hi-Fi for Pain and Misery'?
Hi-Fi Answers - 'Hi-Fi Obfuscation and Confusion'?
In the '90s there was:
Audiophile - 'Audiophobe'?
The Flat Response -'The Flatulant Response'?
Hi-Fi Review - 'Hi-Fi Refuse'?
(The last two alternative titles are closer to the mark, for those blatently biased and sycophantic rags).
Regards
Caroline's even more pedantic that me, which is quite an achievement. I'm a bit hazy on when to use 'that' and when to use 'which', but Caroline's a sub-editor on a scholarly journal and is down on any incorrect usage like a ton of bricks.
Our elder daughter clearly takes after her; I remember many years ago when she was about 5, we went past a sign that read: 'Don't even think about parking here!'. My daughter said 'That sign's not right, is it daddy?'. I asked her what was wrong with it, and she replied 'It should say: 'Please don't even think of parking here!''
Here is nice link to Germans audio forum with lots of classic hi-fi advertising.
On the other hands I'm especially interested in tests or reviews of Sansui's gear from UK audio magazines in period 70'-80'.So,if someone has an old magazines,and can scan,would be very,very grateful :youtheman:
Something like that:
http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/z...arison1-11.jpg
PS-money is not an object.
Regards
Lol, Joe.....
Chris, some way cool retro ads there! :respect:
Marco.
Did you write for Hi-fi for Pleasure then, Dave? :)
If so, did you get to meet any of the 'foxy chicks' on the covers of the mag? :eyebrows:
Marco.
Gosh you lot are hard to please! OK, the magazines I have read at some time or other are or have been:
Hi-Fi News & Record Review (now simply Hi-Fi News)
Gramophone
Popular Hi-Fi
Hi-Fi Sound
Practical Hi-Fi and Audio
Audiophile
Hi-Fi Answers
Hi-Fi Weekly
Hi-Fi Review
The Flat Response
Hi-Fi for Pleasure
Hi-Fi Choice
Hi-Fi World
Hi-Fi +
Stereo Review
Stereophile
The Audio Amateur
The Absolute Sound.
Don't ask me to list the pornography mags I've read.
Regards
Oops! Could say that was a Freudian slip, or a pun as photography is another interest of mine and collegues would jokingly refer to the mags as 'Amateur Pornography' or 'Creative Pornography'! A lot of people still confuse nude photography with pornography. It really was a typo - honest! :doh:
At least it proves my posts are read. When I used to write reports at work, I would always include an unusual word or phrase, so as to check that they were read. If people asked "what does ** mean?", I knew they had read the report.
I do have one or two copies of the magazine when it was originally 'Hi-Fi News', but my qualification is correct: from becoming 'Hi-Fi News & Record Review', it is now simply called 'Hi-Fi News'.Quote:
simply Hi-Fi News in the first place
Anyway it's time to get back to my reading the latest copy of 'Rubber Weekly'! :eyebrows: