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Does anyone else think this

I was going through the current edition of the absolute sound. They featured the best products for the year. A lot of those products are big speakers and amplifiers. I was thinking in about 20 years when most of the baby boomers are retiring or passing on that these products will wind up in landfills or be boat anchors. The generation behind us has no interest in speakers as big as a house or giant amps that take up floor space. They see these as a complete waste of space and disgusting. The few times younger people have seen my system they always comment " why do you have all that stuff, and what does it do"
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inna
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And if they continue like that, those next generations will become degenerations. There is always time for meaningful things.
Ipad sounds like crap compared to a good boombox with good analog recording and cassette. I used to have one, and it didn't cost much.
chrshanl37
841 posts
 
Ah yes boom boxes and cassettes....wait why did they go by the wayside? Please remind us.
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bdp24
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It's not just younger people. In 2003 I reunited with an old friend I hadn't seen since '79, and upon seeing the pair of Infinity RS-1b's I had at the time he said "Ya know, people don't have big speakers anymore". To which I replied "They never did". He's a typical musician, having listened to cassette tapes on a boombox in the old days, and to CD's and You Tube videos on his computer now.
inna
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Because "cassette" is more difficult to pronounce than "ipad". Principle of simplicity, sort of.
I also remember my $100 Technics direct drive turntable, that despite all its flaws could get you into the recording. And I didn't even bother to clean the records then.
It's ridiculous how those i-devices sound - they can't get a single note right. Or rhythm, for that matter.
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geoffkait
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Not sure I would put cassettes in the same sentence with boom boxes. Innocent question: why did vinyl LPs go by the wayside? Please remind us. Tape like cassette tape is a natural medium. It breathes.
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