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In Reply to: At what point did audio designers feel our lives were too easy and your stereo should be a black box mystery posted by airtime on October 29, 2016 at 09:32:26:
Being old enough to remember hi-fi and have now lived through, binaural, stereo, am-fm broadcasts, multiplex, reel to reel, solid state electronics, 8 track, cassettes, quadraphonic, ultra low mass tonearms, direct drive turntables, egualizers, DAT, CD's, etc, etc, I'm happy that I resisted most of it except for $7000 of SS "high end" electronics back around 1979 that only confirmed to me that tubes would be around for a long time.In the end I joyfully remain in the vinyl realm with vintage tube equipment/speakers/turntable/cartridge and antenna TV.
A tube Zenith H725 is the kitchen radio, there's a seldom used Pioneer SX-780 in a closet hooked up to NHT in wall speakers and my big adventure into the new world is Pandora Radio through the computer when I'm puttering around the house and I want a long period of Brazilian Beat or Bossa Nova type music.
Life without a remote control for every piece of electronics is possible but the TV remote was indeed a good thing.
IMHO all this digital stuff with wireless capability is a "good enough" compromise for a lot of people and mass sales is the name of the game.
I'm waiting for a cyber attack on all those "automated smart homes."
Edits: 10/29/16
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- RE: At what point did audio designers feel our lives were too easy and your stereo should be a black box mystery - DaveV 10:42:18 10/29/16 (1)
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