Back Issues of the magazine High Fidelity in PDF

[Rich Sauer]

Just dropping in to let readers of RMCR know that the link below will allow you to download back issues of High Fidelity (1951-1970) in PDF format. Many of you probably have Records in Review on your shelf, but the actual magazine has lots of fun stuff you didn't get in RIR: ads (Rubinstein listening to an 8-track release of his Chopin Waltzes), letters to the editor ( from Robert Mann, John Culshaw, B.H. Haggin, Tony Randall etc..) and pictures/reviews of all that old stereo equipment...

R. Sauer

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/High-Fidelity-Magazine.htm

[carey...@yahoo.com]

Thanks for posting this. I was a High Fidelity reader back in the day. I wish
mags like that were still around.

[Frank Berger]

This is fantastic. The ads - what memories. Thank you.

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[Russ (not Martha)]

On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 1:34:38 PM UTC-5, carey...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks for posting this. I was a High Fidelity reader back in the day. I wish
> mags like that were still around.

I had HF issues from the very 1st one up to some time in the 80's when I gave up on the magazine.

I wonder if there are any deep-bass aficianados who still have one of those DIY coffin-like 'air-couplers' the early issues explained how to construct.

Russ (not Martha)

[wagner...@gmail.com]

I have bound hard copies of every High Fidelity from its inception to the end of 1983 - it was a wonderful magazine with superb reviewers. Nothing like it today

[Ed Presson]

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I first subscribed about 1961 and went to the end. I loved the magazine.

Ed Presson

[LarryLap]

Absolutely right! Harris Goldsmith, whom I was priveleged to be acquainted during my years in New York (1971-76) was the greatest journalist/critic of the period. He conveyed his passionate interest in recorded music to me, and it has remained the core interest of my life. I am thrilled to learn that his work, and that of the other High Fidelity critics, is now readily accessible.

[Bob Harper]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. My father had a collection which ran,
if not from the beginning, at least from the early '50s through just
about to the end. I pored over them from the age of around 12 (1960)
until after his death in 1992. I wound up selling them to someone for
just about nothing, but it was good they were wanted. To have them in
this format is great. Dittos to what everyone else has said, especially
the ads and the great reviews by CLO et al.

Bob Harper

[wagner...@gmail.com]

Conrad L Osbornes reviews and discographies are absolutely brilliant - reading him taught me to keep my standards high when listening to vocal music

[Raymond Hall]

Fantastic stuff. Amazing also the 'thinking' prevalent in 1969. I hit the 1969-05 issue first, and got this gem on page 35 which opened the article 'This Little Speaker May Cause The Downfall Of The Capitalist System', as follows :-
Until a few months ago, only capitalists
owned high- fidelity systems of really
superior quality. For the ordinary rich
American, the price was simply too high.

And then, almost my favourite romantic composer, Sibelius, on page 56. Luck, kismet or fate?

They don't make magazines like this anymore. more is the pity.

Ray Hall, Taree

[Norman Schwartz]

Rich Sauer wrote:
> Just dropping in to let readers of RMCR know that the link below will
> allow you to download back issues of High Fidelity (1951-1970) in PDF
> format.

Neat, but AFAIAC too much of a reminder of my misspent youth.

[marceli...@gmail.com]

All is not lost; the venerable English competitor of High Fidelity, Gramophone, still exists, healthily as fas as I know. Check it out, www.gramophone.co.uk

[meyers...@gmail.com]

On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 6:28:59 PM UTC-5, marceli...@gmail.com wrote:
> All is not lost; the venerable English competitor of High Fidelity, Gramophone, still exists, healthily as fas as I know. Check it out, www.gramophone.co.uk

And all of the issues of Gramophone are available via archive - I can call them up on my phone!!!! Great reading while waiting for a plane or train.

[wade...@hotmail.com]

On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 3:28:59 PM UTC-8, marceli...@gmail.com wrote:
> All is not lost; the venerable English competitor of High Fidelity, Gramophone, still exists, healthily as fas as I know. Check it out, www.gramophone.co.uk

over $100 US per year just to access the archive??? WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.

[meyers...@gmail.com]

I pay 43.33 per year for 12 digital issues plus the archive from Amazon Kindle subscriptions. Sounds just fine to me

[Herman]

On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 1:16:20 AM UTC+1, meyers...@gmail.com wrote:
Great reading while waiting for a plane or train.

try Moby Dick

[wade...@hotmail.com]

seems strange that the publisher would allow a more than 50% discount on a service via a reseller. Usually those type of steep discounts are only provided by the publisher itself. But if that is the case, it is great to know it.

[wade...@hotmail.com]

On Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 1:34:03 AM UTC-8, meyers...@gmail.com wrote:

Reading thru the Amazon offer, there is no mention of access to the archives. How did you find out about this undocumented perk? is it via the gramophone website as opposed to the current issue items which are downloaded to a reader via zinio?

[meyers...@gmail.com]

Don't know - the link to back issues just appeared