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Huge wrote:
On 2017-10-26, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Adrian Caspersz
wrote:

I was leafing through an old 1980 copy of Hifi News and Record
Review, marvelling at the amount of constructional projects in that
mag. Wow and tears that that general interest doesn't exist anymore.

You may be right. However I keep wondering if the problem is the lack
of either items which would draw people into DIY and/or that people
who'd like it don't bother to tell editors so.

Home construction is dying in all fields, not just Hi-Fi. Indeed, home
DIY is nothing like as popular as it used to be.

Generally, the cost of most built things has come down in real terms.
Making it less attractive to make it yourself - as the retail pricing of
raw materials has more like kept up with inflation etc. Maplin charging
35p for a penny resistor, etc. ;-)

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