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ChrisCoaster wrote:
> On Dec 16, 8:50 pm, Ron <BigELil...@msn.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 16, 8:34 pm, ChrisCoaster <ckozi...@snet.net> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 16, 8:00 pm, Ron <BigELil...@msn.com> wrote:
>>>> On Dec 13, 4:22 pm, ChrisCoaster <ckozi...@snet.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Dec 11, 4:00 am, Soundhaspriority <nowh...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>> <sshankSTRIKET...@tds.net> wrote in message
>>>>>> Xns9B70C1104A486sshanktds...@216.196.97.131
>>>>>>> This is a hoot.
>>>>>>> http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalogs/1939/
>>>>>> I cried myself to sleep for weeks after my local Radio Shack closed last
>>>>>> year. While I rarely bought anything, the clerks taught me how to curse in
>>>>>> Pakistani. And I could get lots of catalogs by giving them a different name
>>>>>> every time I was there.  I get Radio Shack catalogs by the hundreds.
>>>>>> Now I have to content myself with an ice cream from my Baskin Robbins (I got
>>>>>> Bwian fired from this one, too) and the grocery store.
>>>>>> "I don't really have a career, it's a very gnawing thing"
>>>>>> Robert Morein
>>>>>> (310) 237-6511
>>>>>> (215) 646-4894
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>>>>> That site is a SCREAM!
>>>>> ANYONE who wants to know what audio equipment is SUPPOSED to look like
>>>>> should browse any catalog from the late 70s - early 80s. That goes for
>>>>> boomboxes as well as home components.
>>>> I care more about performance than looks.
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>>> If that's the case, I'll take looks over dumbed-down.
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> Dumbed down?  Magnify some of the pages showing those early 80s
> receivers. You should be able to read some of the labels on the knobs
> and switches on the fronts of them.
> 
> Today's receivers have next to none of the functions the old ones did:
> Hi-cut, Low-Cut, Stereo/Mono, Loudness, etc. Later ones of that period
> had signal level indicators for FM and AM reception, you name it.
> 
> It's not really "looks" per se, it's actually functionality that I'll
> take over today's dumbed down consumer components.  They are an insult
> to mine and others' intelligence.  People used to DEMAND what was on
> the front of those receivers.
> 
> Surround sound? So what!  A really intelligent receiver would have
> bass & treble - at minimum, for the center and surrounds as well, to
> blend the timbre of all five speakers as best as possible.  Lo-cut -
> to chop off the subsonic frequencies that are often overboosted in
> post production of many hip-hop songs that I happen to like.  Cutting
> extraneous bass below 20HZ also prevents the amps from overheating.
> Get it? But NOOO, the manufacturers think we're too DUMB to know what
> a low-cut filter or high-cut filter is!
> 
> -CC

I sold hifi back in those days.  Frankly, 9 out of 10 people who *owned* 
that gear had no idea what all those switches were for...maybe 19 out of 20.

The gear's dumbed down because an audio system is just another appliance 
now.  That said, it's pretty sophisticated appliances.  Some things are 
better than ever.  Depending how much money you want to spend on it, you 
can have all the functionality and quality you remember from the 'old 
days' and more.

jak