Some people care about equipment. Most people seem to expect simple background noise. Stick some earbuds in, connect thru bluetooth, let Katy Perry throb away in the background, and get on with life.
I remember when people bought full systems, sat down, and just listened.
“I remember when people bought full systems, sat down, and listened.”
I still do. Magnepan 3.7is driven with an Audio Research DSi200, ARC CD5 CD player, highly modified Thorens TD126 mkIII (Mayware arm w/Ortofon Gold), and an ARC PH3se phono preamp. It is glorious.
I've gone through two "home theater" receivers over the past few years - found them both to be overly complex and the opposite of intuitive. So recently, I strapped on my back brace and took my Pioneer SX-1250 to the shop and had it refurbished. I added a bluetooth dongle to one of the inputs and can push Pandora or Spotify throughout the house via my structured wiring box. Gotta keep the volume level down around 3 or 4, though - today's speakers aren't made for this beast.
“I remember when people bought full systems, sat down, and just listened.”
It was routine all through high school to buy an album the day or week it came out and then go to a friend’s house and listen to the whole thing front and back.
Connecting radio through Bluetooth has numerous problems among which are;
Ads inserted over you program
Missing weather alerts
Delayed broadcast
Different non-local news
Dead air during key monologs and conversations
No thanks
I want my AM radio.
I’ll get one out of a junked car and get a 12 volt converter if need be.
You forgot the part about firing up a doobie.
I remember when people bought full systems, sat down, and just listened.
I do too. But it is hard to find a system anymore they quit making them....