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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Jonathan Evans

A 32-inch CRT TV for £2300? We look back at What Hi-Fi? in 1996

What Hi-Fi? July 1996 cover

The July 1996 issue of What Hi-Fi? was an interesting mix. 

Our cover from 27 years ago majored on a new Technics CD player, with plenty of other still-familiar brand names to rival it in our sub-£200 round-up. Also highlighted on the front page were a stereo amplifier Supertest, a headphone round-up, and a little hint at the explosion in home cinema technology that was about to launch itself on an enthusiastic public. CD-quality home cinema? Sounds enticing…

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