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Another one from yesterday's walk. He just appeared next to me. This was without a crop with the new 600mm.
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What a stereo and music collection looked like circa 1986...a turntable, a new CD player, some vinyl, a lot of cassette tapes, a few CDs and the ever-popular stack set. Who remembers?

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Music has always been important to me. iTunes is my main source of music these days. Haven't had any cassettes in a long time, and I have a tower with a multitude of CD's which I haven't played in years. In the late 1960's I owned a stereo and record shop in Penfield NY, Still have a few vinyl records and Technics turntable, again rarely used, iTunes is so convenient. Shazam is a great app for adding new music to iTunes.
 
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What a stereo and music collection looked like circa 1986...a turntable, a new CD player, some vinyl, a lot of cassette tapes, a few CDs and the ever-popular stack set. Who remembers?

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I remember going from lp's and reel-to-reel to 8-tracks to cassettes and the first time my brother played a CD for me on one of the earliest - and very pricey - players. Oh, shoot - I'm old!
 
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I remember going from lp's and reel-to-reel to 8-tracks to cassettes and the first time my brother played a CD for me on one the earliest - and very pricey - players. Oh, shoot - I'm old!
I have been in the music/sound business since the mid sixties, like you I have had the gamut of devices. I vividly remember the first time I heard the digital quality of a CD, i went into a music store in Toronto and they had a Sony portable CD player on display and I heard Toto's 'Africa', I could not believe the lack of hiss from tapes, the lack of clicks and pops from vinyl, and the incredible dynamic range. I have sold all kinds of audiophile and professional audio equipment, and there is no way a vinyl disc can compete. A lot of people believe that digital audio is not pure because it cuts the music up in 48,000 little pieces. Play a record once and it start to degrade. Play a digital file a 1000 times and it is exactly the same.
 
I have been in the music/sound business since the mid sixties, like you I have had the gamut of devices. I vividly remember the first time I heard the digital quality of a CD, i went into a music store in Toronto and they had a Sony portable CD player on display and I heard Toto's 'Africa', I could not believe the lack of hiss from tapes, the lack of clicks and pops from vinyl, and the incredible dynamic range. I have sold all kinds of audiophile and professional audio equipment, and there is no way a vinyl disc can compete. A lot of people believe that digital audio is not pure because it cuts the music up in 48,000 little pieces. Play a record once and it start to degrade. Play a digital file a 1000 times and it is exactly the same.

I can vividly remember hearing that first CD on the earliest of players, a Sony - a classical piano piece that just blew me away. But that player cost a couple of grand in today's dollars so I had a wait ...
 
What a stereo and music collection looked like circa 1986...a turntable, a new CD player, some vinyl, a lot of cassette tapes, a few CDs and the ever-popular stack set. Who remembers?

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Me!! My parents had a large collection of vinyl, cassettes and yes 8-track tapes. My sister and I contributed to that. Sadly a series of moves across country, and life changes led to the collection getting sold, discarded etc. Funny I have a collection of CDs now in my flat I never listen to (well they are ripped onto my Mac) as well as digital purchases I rarely listen to as well but do streaming mostly now. I wonder what my niece will see. Kind of scared actually.
 
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