What? No one has promoted the wax cylinder and player with a glorious morning glory trumpet speaker? Now THAT’S real analog recording and acoustic! (THIS is an Edison Recording!)
Favorite obsolete formats.....
What are your favorite of these? I’m unsure if any stations broadcast in AM stereo nowadays. 8 track, Mini-disk, Cassette, VHS, CED, Beta, DAT, Reel to Reel, Am Stereo, Laserdisc, Quadraphonic, Dolby FM. Surely many formats have been overlooked.
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I love 45s first when that's all I could afford as a kid. Then 33s was worth saving for in my teens. Then cassettes were great in my working twenties. Nothing like listening to little feat live on my equalizer setup in my Ford Maverick while out for lunch with a quart of beer with my working buddies. Then back to collecting LPs in Boulder where my buddy Joe owned a record store and the rest is history... It was all great. |
"It’s not likely that a few online reviewers were responsible for the market failure of MD. It’s much more likely that the market was simply evolving beyond lossy formats, especially for recording." It was not because of "lossy". It was because of "physical". It was just about the time when mp3 and similar ideas sprung up. Of formats that never properly caught on, DCC (digital compact cassette). So archaic before it ever started. Decent sound, though. I could not decide between them so now I have DCC and Mini Disc. |
cd3181 MiniDisc and Hi-MD. My dislike of certain magazine reviewers reached near pathological levels as I used to read one disparaging review after the next. It was that word ’lossy’ ... As a result of their unceasing negative propaganda we lost a wonderfully versatile recording / compilation medium.It’s not likely that a few online reviewers were responsible for the market failure of MD. It’s much more likely that the market was simply evolving beyond lossy formats, especially for recording. I think MQA’s future is also uncertain, and for much the same reason. |
MiniDisc and Hi-MD. My dislike of certain magazine reviewers reached near pathological levels as I used to read one disparaging review after the next. It was that word 'lossy' that they all, to a man, latched onto. Yet I would bet that not a single one of them paid profiteering prejudiced shills could unsightedly distinguish between a MD recording and the CD/vinyl/ hi-res original. As a result of their unceasing negative propaganda we lost a wonderfully versatile recording / compilation medium. Instead of serving their readers many of these goons continually seek to exploit them. Worst of the current bunch? Darko and What Hi-Fi are the two that immediately spring to mind. Sorry, I got just a bit triggered there, but it still needs saying and repeating. |
Whenever I think of 8 track I remember the rolls of tape used to splice them back together. But it was the first tape format to be in cars and I love driving with music playing. As far as tin can and string, that may be an upgrade in communication today, since no one under 40 can talk on a phone today but text instead. You know, kinda like the ancients who scrawled messages on cave walls.. Smoke signals have been modified today. No blankets necessary. Just set a city block on fire if you don't like things and don't get your way. Or if you win a league championship you set a building on fire. You tell the difference between joy and sadness by the size of the smoke. Little means fun. Big means run |
I forget the name. Tin cans and string. That one. No, wait! Smoke signals! Man I miss that one. Remember, the indians with the blanket? You just knew the settlers were in trouble. Oh! Oh! Never mind- beacons! Yeah! https://youtu.be/QhRFaY8A9cA?t=48 |
