If you told vinyl enthusiast John Smith in 1976, when the first magazine issue of What Hi-Fi? occupied coffee tables around the UK, that, in his lifetime, all of the world’s music could be accessed affordably at the touch of a screen and played without a cable in sight, he might well have asked what streets your dealer occupied.
Indeed, you would only need look at the cover of that first magazine side by side with What Hi-Fi?'s latest issue to see that the music and hi-fi landscapes have changed astronomically in the past 50 years.
