SanguinaryNovel

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@SanguinaryNovel

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A real "we've got a nephew" of graphic design and illustration, mental illness held at bay by a very nice vegetable garden and cats.

Lapsed printmaker, you should ask me about it and I'll be very weird

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huldratigress
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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

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As a CRT freak I absolutely agree

nothing feels better to the brain then fiddling a bunch of big heavy knobs and buttons and getting fuzzy warm light and sound blasting out the exact way you want it

I own a laserdisc player and its just fun to have! Its got a huge heavy loud disc tray and get hot just sitting there turned on. Its awesome and useless

SanguinaryNovel
@SanguinaryNovel

This is why I like vinyls

I don't have a practiced enough ear to really discern the difference in audio quality, I just like the ritual of it all. There's something about all the extra effort that gives the music more gravitas, more weight and importance. It's harder to mindlessly skip through songs, I have to sit and listen to it all the way through, in the order the artist intended. It turns listening to music into an activity instead of a background noise. It purposely slows me down, slows down time.

There's no real quantitative benefit or any scientific studies that make playing vinyls "the best option", it just feels better in a way my dumb monkey brain likes.

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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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