Boom Ting Boom Ting. Had many a cop called for noise complaints when I owned them. They were ridiculous for home use. Serious party speakers.
Posted on 07/23/2017 8:19:33 PM PDT by lee martell
I decided it was time to replace my very old home stereo system from Magnavox. It had a CD player, an AM/FM radio and a pair of speakers. I must have bought it back in the late 90's. I knew it would be difficult to find an affordable CD player vs one that took DVDs or other. What I didn't know was how difficult it would be to find a home stereo system that allowed me to get AM radio. All the systems I saw online offered FM. That was no problem.
I went into Best Buy and was told I would have to connect to AM by using my iphone's Bluetooth App. The Bluetooth App would then be used to link up and connect with my home stereo, which would then provide access to AM radio.
Oh. said I. I didn't want the bother and all the extra fiddling needed to make that connection. So I looked online, and settled for something from LG for a little over $200. According to the online Ad, I could have both FM AND AM radio. I was thrilled, since I rely on AM to get most my talk shows. A few days pass, it's delivered, I set the home stereo system up , only to find, you guessed it. I still would be expected to use Bluetooth to establish the connection to Am. Damn!
After lots of silent grumbling, I decided, Okay, I guess I'll just have to learn how to connect. Eventually, I found the App, but the Bluetooth was only able to connect to a port with a headset symbol above it. Meaning, I suppose, Am Radio is only accessible via headphones. (Oy!!)
At this point, I just dug up one of my old CD players. A small model by Memorex, and I now use this to access AM Radio until further notice. I had to hunt for a replacement cord for it. Seems most stores don't even sell your basic appliance cords anymore. They are sold online for about $17. adding postage, brings that to about $26. No thanks. I found one stuffed in my box of old souvenir from college days. It still functions fine. Life is for learning, right?
Yep. Mid-fi class speakers that would play really really loud. They always lacked transparency and cohesion. You could never forget that you were listening to them.
Internet radio seems to have higher fidelity than over the air AM.
Hot spot plus smart phone (wifi only) plus bluetooth speaker allows one to stay with the same station for hundreds and hundreds of miles of driving.
Well I was joking about the conspiracy, but the market does work differently in different places - Rush was on AM in Philly for years, then went to FM for a bit, and a few years back went back to AM - the major talk radio stations in the area are still mainly AM, including those carrying Prager and Mark Levin, with FM going mainly for continuous music, primarily rock and rap but some classical carried by the university stations - that’s how the market is working in this region.....
Pawn shops.
Ii refuse to listen to commercials?
1300 CDs on my iPod in he truck, Netflix, Amazon on my iPad, iPhone and roku tvs... I get ny news from FR.
Ive smoked an amp or two. ;-) Newer commercial amps die politely. Older ones would fry everything connected to them and likely start a fire.
I saw something on TV the other day saying the X generation is fascinated with LP's and the sound they put out so there is a company making them again.
It is a fact they do put out a better quality of music.
I have one of those sitting out in my garage. Still have the turn table and tape deck also. No speakers though. :-( Beautiful music came out of those.
It was 1973. Electrophonics Quadrophonic stereo.
The ladies heard Joe belting out Rocky Mountain Way from those 4 speakers and immediately started shimmying out of their hot pants. I wasn’t even wearing English Leather.
It was just two more speakers, so it must have been the reverberator ...
Yes, stacking speakers was definitely a thing back in the day. Locally, we were into stacked Advents. At $125 each, they were cheap audiophile thrills.
I still remember the release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Jaw-dropping. All the more so because it was well recorded. I still have a MFSL pressing of it.
This might work for you.
Dude, don’t forget the 8-track...
I would need to find and gas up my Deluxe Model Way-Back Machine to find any 8-Track players I haven’t lost or thrown out.
Just buy a car stereo that has AM-FM and a CD player and hook it up to a 12v power supply. I set on in a box and used it in my home for a long time. Great sound.
AM/FM Tuner plus TREBLE and Bass. Hmmm. Most newer models lack treble switches, I’ve discovered. Somebody decided we didn’t care about the strings and light metallic sounds.
“Somebody” is wrong.
Nice model here for just $88.Clams.
Maybe you should have checked good old Walmart instead of over priced Best Buy.
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