avolmar wrote:

In his article on the “Quad ESL-63 loudspeaker” published in Stereophile's September issue of 1983, Larry Greenhill introduced the “wife acceptance factor” or WAF (Greenhill himself credits it to Lewis Lipnick).

Although the original review was indeed from September 1983, this passage is from Larry's follow-up on the USA Monitor version, which was published in February 1989 (Vol.12 No.2, pp.104-109). Lewis Lipnick did indeed coin the WAF description; it was first published in a 1986 issue of Stereophile.

avolmar wrote:

is there, by any chance, a digital archive for the 20th century back issues? So much good stuff there ... and so hard to get here in Europe!

Sorry no, but the majority of the equipment reviews and feature articles/interviews we have published are reprinted on this website.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile