| Things that annoy me now [message #93672] |
Sat, 15 December 2007 19:32  |
Paul Braun
Messages: 391
Registered: September 2005
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Did some shopping today. Visted the local Fry's Electronics.
First off, I'm looking for a vcr for my dad. His died, and he's in
the middle of transferring a bunch of videotapes to dvd. Plus, he
uses it as the OTA tuner for his tv. He doesn't have cable or
satellite.
Guess what? You can't buy a vcr anymore. All you can buy is a
dvd/vcr combo player. And NONE of them have tv tuners anymore.
You can get a tuner, if you're willing to pony up $300 for a vcr/dvd
recorder combo.
Swell. Guess I need to hit the pawn shop and look for a decent used
one.
Second, I looked for a relatively simple cassette-based boombox for
my mother-in-law.
Yeah, right. Unless you're looking for something with cd and an iPod
dock and multimeda flash card interfaces with a thousand buttons and
flashing lights and audio processors, good freakin' luck.
I also listened to an assortment of compact iPod-based boomboxes.
They all sound like ass. Well, I suppose they sound OK for 2"
speakers.....
And I got to auditon Creative's newest entry into the Bose sandbox --
X-fi.
Yes, it's advertised as a small module that installs inline with your
mp3 player and gives you "better than studio-quality" sound by
restoring what was lost during the squishing process.
To me, I'm thinking it will sound like overhyped highs and lows, with
a lot of splattered sizzle. Like most Bose stuff.
To their credit, Creative didn't disappoint. Gawd, that sounded like
crap.
And I saw a Sony desktop sound system based on a cd and mp3 player.
Included a sub module and two satellites. 1.5" satellites. Yes,
that's right. I've seen bigger speakers in headphones.
WTF are we working so hard at developing our craft for?????? THIS
shit is what most kids today think is hi-fidelity audio. Hell, even I
can make a mix that sounds good for the crap they listen on......
Am I just getting old? Am I heading down the road to curmudgeonly
ways?
Sheesh.
pab
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