Times of Change

摘要

The 1980s saw the arrival of the Walkman, the CD format, hi-fi VCRs and megabucks high-end audio. Ken Kessler recalls the decade in his inimitable style... The 1980s were either the most exciting years in audio history, or the defining decade during which the rot set in. Wrap your mind around these powerful influences - the arrival of CD; the fragmentation of the industry into analogue versus digital; the ascendancy of the audio press (especially in the UK) with its concomitant irresponsibility and abuse of power; the seeds of home theatre and surround-sound courtesy of hi-fi VCRs; and the arrival of zero-compromise megabucks high-end audio.