"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
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The Golden Age of receivers appears to have been from
about 1983 to 1990.

Your golden age appears to have been 1938 to 1936.


The "golden age" of audio reproduction is universally
considered to have been somewhere between 1953 and 1971.

One word: Yeccch!

Audio was really pretty bad until the early 80s.