Microblog Memes

Is that a CD player? Yeah I’m older than that.

But this was a pretty common setup most households would have had around that time.

Old? Buddy not only did I have an RCA system like that with surround sound as a kid, I have a Technics one in my living room now that I literally found on the side of the road. Full cabinet system with the floor speakers and everything. Radio tuner, cassette player, 6 disk CD player, phono preamp for my record player as well. I use it instead of a shitty sound bar or the tv speakers because it was free and sounds loads better.

Cd player? Oh you sweet summer child

That’s still in my house. And if I have my way, it will outlive me.

I had a victrola. My grandma raised me.

Those all-in-one audio systems were fantastic, I will not hear any more of this slander

Even now, that looks like a pretty badass system.

Wow, that is exactly the same tower I have.

A setup like this had the feel of luxury and high tech. Not something every upper middle class household afforded, mostly audiophiles.

I was young and had a JVC stereo cassette player with radio. Attached a discman when the time came.

As I got older, I started building a Hifi system (Panasonic), but after amp and boxes, the digital era came. Bought a previous gen used tape player for my tapes and attached my 2nd and last discman, and that's where it's still at.

It's still as I left it. I kept my old tiny apartment as an office, with all that and other 80s & 90s tech in it, and visiting is like time travel. For the era, and my life. Should you ever visit, don't trip over the BNC cable in the hallway.

Amplifier at the bottom, when it's the only thing that generates significant heat? Plainly not an audiophile set-up. Should be on top, and the turntable should be off to one side on one of those vibration isolation decks. Kids these days, eh?

I'm not that old, and we were in poverty growing up so didn't have anything even remotely like this.

But now that I'm older with a decent job, one of my favourite things I've bought for myself is a nice stereo system. It feels like such a nice luxury, especially when all my friends rely on tv speakers or Bluetooth speakers

Why do you need to hit me like this... Right now i'm fixing my dad's old telefunken hifi. I'm a lot younger than that generation. But my first taste of music was on that motherfucker with old cassettes and radio...

Fuck how am i nostalgic of a time i only saw the aftermath of?

Still use my stereo system, obviously upgraded from that cheap plastic rca junk but still. I've never not had a stereo system. Funny how it was the norm, now its rare for any human to have ever heard music not on shitty earbuds. Makes me sad. And explains why popular music sounds horrible. No one's ever listened to it on an actual home system.

*im talking about the population spoon fed corpo pop that most people (usually young) listen to. There is amazing music being made today but it actually takes effort to find now.

I was likely in uni when this came out. I am cassette, 8-track and LP old. The CD came out when I was in uni. I remember having to decide whether to get a Betamax or VHS tape player when they came out.

That EQ is worth its weight in gold.

And I would literally kill somebody for that record player and by literally killing I mean figuratively so not really at all.

Yes… I’m that old