As the sun sets on the dumpster fire that was 2024, and 2025 tentatively pokes its head through the shell of its egg-like embryo, you’ll probably be thinking about all of those things you were supposed to get done this past year. You were going to get immersed in the exciting world of macramé, learn to cook, become a better spouse, stop eating processed cheese and finally fly off to Turkey to get the deadly tooth-and-top combo that would slice a good five years off your mileage. 2024 was going to be the year.
Most of those ambitions can go to the wall as, like the rest of us, you’re probably ready to sweep the last 12 months under the rug and turn your attention to 2025. Meditation and yoga be damned, there was one pursuit that you always meant to get around to investing in above all others: you were going to get properly into the world of hi-fi. Plenty are doing it, with youngsters especially ditching the allure of mobile streaming and supercharging the vinyl revival, the CD revival and even the cassette revival. They are getting into 'proper' old-school hi-fi, and you won’t be invited to sit on the cool kids’ table if you’re still playing your tunes from a knock-off Bluetooth portable or, worse yet, your phone’s built-in speakers.
