IsisStormDragon

Isis E. Prosser

@IsisStormDragon

Writer, Procrastinator

Demiromantic asexual lesbian in love with Samus Aran. White. 28. Dragon who hoards stuff. I designed a small game once; hope to design more someday.

(IsisDreamWeaver, from Twitter, for any who know me from there)

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huldratigress
@huldratigress

Credit where credit is due

We rightfully give boomers a lot of shit, but the one thing their generation got right was crazy hi-fi systems. Look at that shit. Cool as hell. Imagine getting home from work and blasting your Peter Gabriel tapes on this.

Now in 2024 your average consumer options are:

  1. bluetooth headphones
  2. plastic orb that spies on you

The fuck man. bring these back

exerian
@exerian

yes, please bring these back.

also, i will never understand why computer don't let me do all of the shit these things do. i should be able to easily tell my computer to pipe the left channel to bluetooth speaker a and the right channel to speaker b. how the fuck did they get it so wrong that this isn't possible?

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knutaf
@knutaf

My favorite thing about this era was ones with a remote control, where if you change the volume on the remote, it makes the physical knob on the front also rotate. So awesome

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zip
@zip

You still can! I did!

I get the feeling it's less that there's not stuff out there and more that everyone's AV budget now goes to TV, games consoles and the fucking rent... either way, I've put together my 2.1 setup for about £600, which I paid for by selling a grand total of four shitty Sonos Ones.

Anyway my point here isn't that I'm a special smart girl who is different, it's that modern stuff is a fucking scam. Those Sonos speakers had no aux input, needed an internet connection and just cut out at random on one or both channels constantly. Smart speakers are priced for the smart not the speaker so they don't even sound that great. Sound bars are a mystery to me, I do not understand why a set of tiny drivers is a good idea and I'm certain they're sold on the fact that they at least sound better than the speakers in your TV.

Meanwhile the separates market is aimed squarely at those fat boomer wallets, but the entry level is just fine. It suits the separates market to look like it's all high end pricey shit and it suits the gadget market that my entire generation grew up with PC speakers and Bluetooth gear and don't notice that there's no bass.

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