For Sale & Wanted: HiFi Choice A5 Best Buy Booklets

[orbscure]

I have the following HiFi Choice A5 Best Buy booklets available for sale or swap. I'll list below the editions I'm looking for:

Copies For Sale... all at £10 each... with postage at cost...


Top Row Left to Right:

No.37 - Cassette Decks and Tapes [1984] in excellent condition with a tight binding - £15
No.17 - Cassette Decks and Tapes [1980] in excellent condition with a tight binding - £15
No.05 - Turntables and Cartridges [1977] in fair condition with one loose page - £15

Bottom Row Left to Right:

No.20 - Cartridges and Headphone [1980] in excellent condition with a tight binding - £15
No.20 - Cartridges and Headphone [1980] in good condition with a tight binding - £15
No.38 - Cartridges & Accessories [1984] in excellent condition with a tight binding - £15

Wanted:

No.02 Receivers
No.03 Loudspeakers
No.06 Amplifiers
No.07 Receivers
No.08 Music Centers
No.10 Loudspeakers
No.15 Loudspeakers
No.16 ??
No.23 Stereo Systems and Accessories
No.27 Systems, Racks & Minis
No.28 Cartridges and Headphones
No.29 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.32 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.33 Amplifiers and Stereo Tuners
No.34 ??
No.35 Turntables & Compact Disc Units
No.43 Cartridges & Turntables
No.44 Amplifiers & Stereo Tuners
No.47 Cassette Decks & Tapes
No.49 The Collection
No.50 Amplifiers & Tuners
No.53 Loudspeakers
No.54 CD & Midi Systems
No.55 Turntables & Cartridges

Finally, can anybody fill in the gaps for No16 & No.34 please and was No.55 the last edition in this A5 format?

Ta muchly in advance

 

[orbscure]

Jubilee bumperty bump... even if you can only fill in the gaps in my list

 

[orbscure]

Another bump... for information gap filling, swaps or sales

 

[orbscure]

Another sunny day bump... not a criticism of my favourite HiFi forum, but given the knowledge base here, I'm really quite surprised how difficult it's proving to get the answers... is this a silly question or is it really as difficult as its proving to get a definitive list?

 

[Nopiano]

I had a pretty comprehensive selection of these back in the day, though most of them seem to be in an unidentifiable box in the garage currently.

To hand, I do have 42, Cassette Decks and Tapes, by Noel Keywood, not in your lists.

Also I’ve got 29, 32, and 35 in perfect condition, but I don’t want to get rid. You’d be welcome to borrow any or all of these four if that’ll satisfy your curiosity, Pete, but I don’t want to sell them. PM me if you’d like to borrow any of them for postage at cost. I can’t promise when I’ll find the rest.

# 34 looks like it might have been either Loudspeakers, or Cartridges and Headphones, but that’s guesswork based on the advert for back copies in number 35, where they unhelpfully fail to number them!

 

[orbscure]

Very much appreciate your comments, the list above are the copies I’m looking for, so those not listed are already in my grubby hands/collection…

Also thanks for your kind offer of a loan, but in this instance, there isn’t anything in the wanted list I really want to read, I’m just looking the complete the collection. I also agree that the adverts for back issues in each copy without numbers next to titles is so frustrating. In fact, much of the list below was compiled using a mixture of detective work, guesses and regular trawling the web for info…

No.01 CassetteDecks
No.02 Receivers
No.03 Loudspeakers
No.04 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.05 Turntables & Cartridges
No.06 Amplifiers
No.07 Receivers
No.08 Music Centers
No.09 Tuners
No.10 Loudspeakers
No.11 Cassette Decks
No.12 Turntables & Tonearms
No.13 Cartridges and Headphones
No.14 Amplifiers
No.15 Loudspeakers
No.16 ??
No.17 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.18 Turntables and Tonearms
No.19 Receivers, Tuners & Amplifiers
No.20 Cartridges and Headphones
No.21 Loudspeakers
No.22 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.23 Stereo Systems and Accessories
No.24 Turntables and Tonearms
No.25 Amplifiers
No.26 Loudspeakers
No.27 Systems, Racks & Minis
No.28 Cartridges and Headphones
No.29 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.30 Turntables and Tonearms
No.31 Loudspeakers
No.32 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.33 Amplifiers and Stereo Tuners
No.34 ??
No.35 Turntables & Compact Disc Units
No.36 Loudspeakers
No.37 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.38 Cartridges & Accessories
No.39 Amplifiers & Stereo Tuners
No.40 CD Players & Turntables
No.41 Loudspeakers
No.42 Cassette Decks
No.43 Cartridges & Turntables
No.44 Amplifiers & Stereo Tuners
No.45 Compact Disc Players
No.46 Loudspeakers
No.47 Cassette Decks & Tapes
No.48 Turntables, Arms & Cartridges
No.49 The Collection
No.50 Amplifiers & Tuners
No.51 CD Players
No.52 Cassette Decks & Tapes
No.53 Loudspeakers
No.54 CD & Midi Systems
No.55 Turntables & Cartridges

…so my quest continues…

 

[Nopiano]

I must redouble my efforts to find the missing ones then! I bought many of them, especially in the Angus McKenzie era, and then Martin Colloms.

Might it worth your trying a Wanted ad in Hifi News, as they’re free?

 

[orbscure]

HiFi News is a good idea, thanks… I bought all of the copies Ken Kessler had at AudioJumble, hence the doubles I’m looking to offload or swap and have attempted to contact him via Facebook just in case he’s able to help… I’ll of course report my findings here first

 

[stylesound]

Hi-Fi Choice no16 is titled 'Stereo Systems & Accessories' (see photo)

Also see photos of 3 booklets for which I cannot find a number, so perhaps you can help.

Re. your wanted list I have the following 14no available 06, 07, 08, 10, 15, 16, 27, 28, 33, 35, 43, 44, 47, & 50.
PM me if of interest

 

[Nopiano]

Hi-Fi Choice no16 is titled 'Stereo Systems & Accessories' (see photo)

Also see photos of 3 booklets for which I cannot find a number, so perhaps you can help.

Re. your wanted list I have the following 14no available 06, 07, 08, 10, 15, 16, 27, 28, 33, 35, 43, 44, 47, & 50.
PM me if of interest

I reckon your three pics are the first three. I remember them now seeing the pictures, and the price! I guess a regular mag was about 20p then?!

 

[stylesound]

I reckon your three pics are the first three. I remember them now seeing the pictures, and the price! I guess a regular mag was about 20p then?!

If that is true then I have 16no of the wanted list.

 

[orbscure]

Hi-Fi Choice no16 is titled 'Stereo Systems & Accessories' (see photo)

Also see photos of 3 booklets for which I cannot find a number, so perhaps you can help.

Re. your wanted list I have the following 14no available 06, 07, 08, 10, 15, 16, 27, 28, 33, 35, 43, 44, 47, & 50.
PM me if of interest

PM inbound... and thanks for the addition...

 

[orbscure]

Just to add Mike, of the three unidentified booklets, I can confirm that Cassette Decks is No.1... I don't have them, but Receivers looks like No.2 whilst Loudspeakers could be No.3...

 

[orbscure]

With immense thanks to Mike/Stylesound, I now only need these copies to get myself complete up to issue 55:

No.23 Stereo Systems and Accessories
No.29 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.32 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.34 Complete Stereo Systems
Best Buy Guide
No.49 The Collection II
No.53 Loudspeakers
No.54 Best Buy Guide
No.55 CD & Midi Systems

As a result of a post on PFM, it now also appears that an unnumbered Best Buy Guide and The Collection were also published during this run. The unnumbered Best Buy Guide is shown in adverts as being positioned between No's 46 & 47 and I'm just awaiting confirmation from somebody who as The Collection as to when it was published... whether the unnumbered Best Buy Guide later became No.54 is also to be confirmed, but if you have any of these copies, clarification would be great

Also confirmation that No.55 was the last of the A5 format is still being sought...

Finally, the spares I listed in post #1 are now available at £10 each, which includes free UK mainland shipping... or if you're attending the North West Audio Show at Cranage this Sunday 19th June, you can collect them from me in person

 

[orbscure]

Bumperty bump

 

[orbscure]

Still looking for these:

No.23 Stereo Systems and Accessories
No.29 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.32 Cassette Decks and Tapes
No.34 Complete Stereo Systems
Best Buy Guide
No.49 The Collection II
No.53 Loudspeakers
No.54 Best Buy Guide
No.55 CD & Midi Systems