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In Reply to: Horns for Hi-Fi - what happened ? posted by J. Phelan on October 12, 2010 at 05:07:25:
If you scan this forum, many buying recommendations are for vintage gear. The same was probably true in the 50s and 60s ...or more so: speakers were more expensive then, in relative terms.
As people leave a hobby / market, availability of the second hand stuff goes up, right? When CD sales were going up, second hand vinyl got cheaper, which was a disincentive to buy it new. When DVD got popular, ex-rental VHS films became very cheap. If petrol prices quadrupled, 2nd hand cars would go for much lower prices. When a town's population shrinks, few new houses are built because the old ones sell cheaply... and so on.
So, assuming that in the 50's, a substantial number of horn systems were bought secondhand, then:
1) slump in people buying horns + some horn owners wanted to sell up / scale down
2) the second hand market was now glutted, and became big enough to cover most buyers still into horns, so the new horn market suffered
3) some horn manufacturers went broke
4) fewer horns were available in shops
return to 1)
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