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| From | Michael Coxe <michael@audities.net> |
| Subject | Re: Another view on the mp3 thing... as if... |
| Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:55:28 -0800 |
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Mike Wisland's comments are an interesting read.
I thought of my own pre-hi-fidelity upbringing.
* cheap Japanese transistor radio - perfect for late-night
listening under my pillow, and easily carried for bicycle
trips or jaunts to the neighborhood pool.
* the family mono-console - as much furniture and hi-fi, where
33 & 1/3 rpm seemed an afterthought, but with a tonearm that
played even the crappiest records without skipping, and a
big 15" woofer.
* my own record player - a Longines Symphonette battery-powered
45/33 portable with the speaker in the lid, just the thing
for hot summer 45 sessions on a friend's big front porch. Had
a battery eliminator (rare for 1965), but always keep an
extra set of d-cells on hand.
Not much fidelity. But you know, the music has never sounded
that good since.
- michael
NP: Now That Everything's Been Said - The City (Carole King '68)
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