Australian Hi-Fi Celebrates its 50 th  Anniversary

It all began at the 1968 Hi-Fi Show in the Hotel Russell, Bloomsbury, London. I was sales manager at Mullard Electronics Limited where work was proceeding to mass-produce solid-state products for industry. Previously the company had built its reputation for making valves (vacuum tubes) used in radio communication during the war and, increasingly, in post-war domestic radios and audio amplifiers. At the Show, listening to British brands such as Leak and comparing them to amplifiers from America (such as Marantz) roused my