I saw the back of an integrated and it depressed me.


Recently took a look at an ad for a Technics SU-G700M2 integrated amplifier, and honestly it made me a little sad for me, my hobby and the gear I ended up with.

When I "wore a younger man's shoes" I needed inputs! I was going to have a turntable, a Tandberg reel to reel and cassette player, and that new fangled CD player would be there as well. 

This new integrated has 5 digital inputs and 2 analog inputs... and anyway I just want to drink while playing Billy Joel radio on my Roon streamer.

erik_squires

Showing 4 responses by tylermunns

@waytoomuchstuff 
That’s funny!  
It sounds like the person exercised their Second Amendment rights, as well as their Elvis Presley rights.

An accident caused a seemingly uber-fragile screen on a flat screen TV to break the other day, necessitating a new TV.
Bought an LG at the store, set it up, realized that it had zero analog inputs.
Our DVD/VHS player is YPbPr & RCA output.
Some stuff is only viewable on DVD and/or VHS.

I’m quite aware that these are problems of privileged people, ultimately trivial, and making too big a deal of them sounds like whining.

Technology is great.
However, when it comes to consumer products, sometimes…not so much.

@tony1954 
 
you really have to join the 21st centuryvideo is no different than audio in that getting the highest possible quality is a worthy endeavour.”

Is that so?  

O, thoust eminence, my benefactor tony1954!
But for thy wisdom eternal, and guidance henceforth,
should I be cast to disrepute!

Unfortunately, I anticipated a comment such as yours.  
I opted to post my relevant-to-the-OP anecdote anyway under the (apparently naive) notion that maybe, just maybe, people wouldn’t be so predictably douchey.

Congrats on being “that guy.”