I even had speaker cabinets in the back seat of my car!
80's Nostalgia
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I even had speaker cabinets in the back seat of my car!
aon
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It's crazy how fast stuff has developed in the past few decades (let alone the past hundred years...)
Cassette tapes were a mainstream technology from the 1960's to the early 2000's. I personally stopped using them around 2004 when I got an iRiver iMP-700 which could play MP3's off a CD-RW. That solved the re-recordability issue that made it necessary to use cassettes alongside CD's for quite a long time.
After that I've had:
Cassette tapes were a mainstream technology from the 1960's to the early 2000's. I personally stopped using them around 2004 when I got an iRiver iMP-700 which could play MP3's off a CD-RW. That solved the re-recordability issue that made it necessary to use cassettes alongside CD's for quite a long time.
After that I've had:
- 2005 or so: Creative Zen Nano flash MP3 player: did away with the CD-RW and was thus much more portable than the iRiver
- 2007: Meizu M6. This was cool as hell. It could play FLAC and video!
- 2009: Nokia N900 was the first proper smartphone I had that could comfortably double as a portable media player. Compared to current smartphones it had groundbreaking features such as a keyboard, detachable battery and a physical cover for the camera. It's been mostly downhill from there...
Me too…. Sorta. Had a hatchback and stuck a couple speaker cabs from an old stereo back there. Had enough speaker wire I could pull them out and set them on the roof. Entertain the world.
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Music was better. Still is in many ways. Again. JMHO.He's concealing something...
CoyotesGator
Ambassador of Reptilian Rum Bar Affairs
Mullets aren’t a thing anymore, either…and neither are rat tails - just in case you were curious!
But, down where I live I still do see the occasional mullet.
I never had a mullet, even in the ‘80s. My hair was kind of all-over a little longish…and feathered! I guess it was kind of a Michael J. Fox, circa “Back to the Future” sort of hair style.
I had the acid-washed jeans, too.
Cadorman
Ambassador of the Catocaster
Um, I still enjoy my pair of Polk Audio RTA 12s dated 1978. That's a B & O TX-2 linear tracking turntable from 1985 on top the DVD changer. My 21 year old Celica still has a cassette player and a CD player. I don't have any cassettes anymore. I remember how excited I was when compact discs came out. The lack of noise, no audio degradation and the huge dynamic range just floored me. I still buy them. Fortunately, I never bought into the Apple or other computer storage formats. I had some issues with artifacts and compression I couldn't deal with. Upstairs I have a pair of Polk LS90 towers and a 400 watt per channel Carver Sunfire amp and preamp. I guess I'm just a little old skool.
SIx String Chef
Ambassador of Taste
Back in the day ('79 and after) in the old country, this was THE ultimate set of audio gear to have in your car:
Pioneer KP-500 AM/FM Cassette Player Car Stereo
with a Clarion 5-band EQ/Power Booster
And a set of Jensen Triax II speakers...
Blasting away Hard Rock and old school Heavy Metal: Ozzy & his Blizzard, Judas, Iron Maiden (Paul DiAnno era), UFO, Saxon, Riot, Scorpions, Van Halen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Godz, Heck, even some Yes, ELP, Uriah Heep, Pat Travers, etc... just cruisin' around showing off that we now could drive... Ah, those were the good 'ole days!
Pioneer KP-500 AM/FM Cassette Player Car Stereo
with a Clarion 5-band EQ/Power Booster
And a set of Jensen Triax II speakers...
Blasting away Hard Rock and old school Heavy Metal: Ozzy & his Blizzard, Judas, Iron Maiden (Paul DiAnno era), UFO, Saxon, Riot, Scorpions, Van Halen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Godz, Heck, even some Yes, ELP, Uriah Heep, Pat Travers, etc... just cruisin' around showing off that we now could drive... Ah, those were the good 'ole days!
SIx String Chef
Ambassador of Taste
Intercourse, YEAH, Mr. Goo!!! That set up RULED!!
BFT Gibson
Ambassador of Originality
lol..i just look in the mirror..look like it's 1985 still
My daughter liked them. But I just didn’t get them so much.
Ah yes…the mighty Jensen triaxials! I think my brother-in-law had those!
I had triaxes of another brand, but I don’t remember what I had….maybe Pioneer.
My EQ was a Sony. I think it was a seven band EQ. I don’t remember what I had for a radio. It was a combo radio/cassette deck, but the radio didn‘t work. That didn’t actually matter to me because I just played my cassettes, anyway!
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Zzzzz
Ambassador
Acid wash jeans are coming back in. I have a pair, complete with manufactured rips because nobody knows how to do it themselves now-a-days.
Cadorman
Ambassador of the Catocaster
Almost everything comes back "in" if you wait long enough. Except for the inherently stupid ideas that are dangerous or just plain stupid. Like Rayon. Anybody that remembers the 70s knows what I'm talking about. For those that don't: fabric doesn't breathe, impossible not to sweat in it and it amplifies smell like a Marshall amplifies sound. I had a really sweet Rayon shirt that was light blue with happy clouds and 'Merican flags on it. Must have been around the Bicentennial.
For realz?
I liked the acid-washed jeans. Let me ask, though…are they coming back for men, too?
eSGEe
Ferengi Ambassador of Trade
YOU have not spent much time in Central Fl.
Shoot, sometimes on weekends, I’d get in my car and just drive the country roads alone at night and just play some tapes. My old ‘71 Nova had no A/C (a lot of cars didn’t back then), so I’d roll the windows down and let the wind blow through the car.
YOU have not spent much time in Central Fl.
I spied one here at the Wawa last week. It was a classic cut mullet, and truly a step out of the past. I was a little disappointed that she wasn’t wearing a Def Leppard shirt to complete the ensemble.