Check out my old-school stereo system from the 90s
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ANewFoundGlory — 8 years ago(November 13, 2017 03:25 AM)
It's outdated now but back when this was state-of-the-art in the 90s. Each part, the receiver, amplifier, CD player, and tuner are separate. I bought them each separately as I saved money and added to it. Excluding the Bose speakers I have for it, this totaled about $2500. With the speakers, which are new, about $5000. It's in great condition, so there's no real point in replacing it. It's a bitch to move, though, as currently they have everything in one box with the similar sound quality.
And the sound has to play through this old school amp:
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ANewFoundGlory — 8 years ago(November 13, 2017 03:35 AM)
Just 6. The part in the middle with the blue lights is a 6-disc CD changer. That's the newest addition to this system (excluding the speakers) which I bought in about 1997. The record player I found at a flea market in 1995. The cassette player above it is from 1989. Everything here is pristine and scratch-free considering how old it is.
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ANewFoundGlory — 8 years ago(November 13, 2017 03:37 AM)
Yeah the cassette player is really old. If it happened to break I wouldn't re-buy one, but as long as I have it I'll still keep it as part of the set. I don't play cassettes anymore and I don't think I own any lol, so it's now there for decoration. Although back in the 90s, I'd record mixed tapes with it from radio and CDs and such. I have a vast collection of records, though, I've found at vintage stores throughout the years. Sometimes the raw, crisp sound of a record is better than the digital sound of a CD. Grateful Dead sounds better on a record.
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ZolotoyRetriever — 8 years ago(November 13, 2017 03:40 AM)
Yeah, I've still got my old Technics dual-cassette tape deck, from back in the 80s, actually. I can record from CD or LP onto tape, or I can record from one cassette tape to another, with it. I got a lot of use out of it over the years. Hell, I still have tapes I made back in the 80s that are still in perfect condition.
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ANewFoundGlory — 8 years ago(November 13, 2017 04:05 AM)
I still have some of my old VHS "porn" tapes from the 90s when my friends in school would bootleg them. Although I haven't watched them since then, they're just sitting in a box somewhere. Back then, porn was a hard find, you couldn't just get it from the net at your convenience. What you had was the scrambled channel on cable (which is now gone as cable is all digitalized now) and recorded VHS copies. My friends would invite me over and we'd watch a porn, which back then was a isolated opportunity. And it was bad quality, too. The sound would go in-and-out and you'd see the imperfections of the tape in the form of lines and scratches, which gave the porn a certain beauty - the scratches, marks, and dust give the film in my opinion a sense of aura.
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cryptoflovecraft — 8 years ago(November 13, 2017 03:51 AM)
I have a JVC CD player and a Technics receiver and turntable (all purchased in the 90s) that are still in working order for the most part (though the turntable doesn't always obey!) … My dual cassette deck is long gone though. ;-(
I put a lot of money into my stereo system back in the day.
