The What Hi-Fi? Awards 2023 issue is now out (and available in all good newsagents, folks!). Which means that the issue the magazine crew are working on as this Back Issues column hits the ether is, rather soberingly for the “time flies” old curmudgeons among us, the January 2024 edition – in the shops in good time for Christmas.
Usually, when I go into our archives to have a good old reminisce, I head back to the bound volumes from the ’90s or ’80s. For me, that feels like a proper dive back into the days of yore. Then I realised (with a somewhat heavy heart) that in fact, if I count back from January 2024 a whole generation of 20 years, I arrive well into the 21st century; so I raised my sights a decade.
