TBT: The Long View: When you audition a component, you’re actually judging a complete system.

I attended my first audio show in 1957, in the days of mono. As a teenager interested in electronics, I discovered High Fidelity just about the time that my disillusionment with ham radio set in. A friend invited me to hear his father’s hi-fi system. All I can remember of that day was the sound of that big five foot tall speaker system in the corner of his living room.