After a couple of Back Issues columns looking at copies of the magazine from around 20 years ago, I took a deeper dive on my most recent dip into our archive. While I, of course, can remember 1981 with alarming clarity, for plenty of our readers it is relatively ancient history.
The magazine’s masthead is now very different (although it has been remarkably consistent for the past 30 years or so, with only a Sound and Vision subhead coming and going in the years since the 1990s) and many of the specifics – certainly as far as product types is concerned – have changed; but the broad brush strokes of What Hi-Fi? remain the same. To wit, reviewing and rating the latest hi-fi and home entertainment equipment.
