[djf]

I can’t take any of this seriously.

Everybody seems happy these days listening to music on ear pods and staring at who knows what, maybe nips on a two inch diagonal Blackberry or whatever.

I grew up (or so I contend) during the rock era, during the time when HiFi was a complete obsession.

JBL, Marantz, Klipsch, these guys set the standard. It truly is stunning to sit in front of a well configured stereo system that has a couple hundred watts under the sheets (I have 330 WPC pushing the original Polk SDS-SRS’s and will soon have about 550).

Anyways, just ranting...

;-)

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Try listening to songs on a good media player with earphones like these:

I use it on this player:

Pure aural nirvana. On the go.

[Vinnie]

Ah, the good old days.
Marantz
Ampex R2R

(can’t remember the name of the British speakers, the best)

[dljordan]

“Everybody seems happy these days listening to music on ear pods and staring at who knows what, maybe nips on a two inch diagonal Blackberry or whatever.”

My wife bought me an IPOD Shuffle for Christmas and I love it. Now I can listen to podcast lectures and stories while I’m working on equipment. My young co-workers joke about my choice of media and are always offering to download some music for me but the current trends in music don’t interest me much being an old rocker.

[Erasmus]

I remember the JBL Paragon dominating the showroom where I worked. I used to tell customers you could just about set paper on fire in front of the 075 ring radiator.