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Literally the only expensive thing my father ever bought for himself was a gigantic stereo gear which combined a vinyl player / radio / cassette deck and hundre

by lqet 5y ago

Literally the only expensive thing my father ever bought for himself was a gigantic stereo gear which combined a vinyl player / radio / cassette deck and hundreds of other features he never used. He bought it around 1982, long before he had kids: http://www.graetz-radio.de/images/radios/1981/HMC_400A.jpg http://www.graetz-radio.de/images/radios/1981/HMC_400A.jpg He is a carpenter and build the living room furniture (which my parents still have) around this contraption. When I was a child, it was the holy center of the living room, and we were not allowed to touch it. It is still working. In the 90ies, the family CD player was hooked to it, later various DVD players.

bluedino 5y ago
Back around 1993 when my dad was also buying every CD in the damn world, he bought a giant Sony setup, amp, receiver, CD changer, dual tape deck... It was all garbage after a few years. Funny enough, the 70's Marantz stuff my mom has all still works. Nothing like hearing the speakers 'pop' when it turns on, the bluish glow of the receiver, turning those knobs, and watching the meters jump around to the music.
- lqet 5y ago
  I remember when I was very little there were those special occasions when my father allowed us to pick a record from his collection and he would play it, songs from strange and ancient looking albums which, as I realized decades later, were all the classic albums of the 60ies and 70ies. I also remember the "pop" sound when you pressed the ON button on the stereo, and then the thing lit up like a christmas tree, literally dozens of red LEDs and golden background lighting and the speed checker light of the turntable. As a kid, I had dozens and dozens of cassettes and later CDs that I carelessly threw around my room, they were cheap and it was nothing special. My father, on the other hand, valued the vinyl collection he built up as a teenager in the early 70ies higher than anything else of material value in our house. His generation had a completely different relationship to music than the following ones.

by lqet 5y ago

bluedino 5y ago

Back around 1993 when my dad was also buying every CD in the damn world, he bought a giant Sony setup, amp, receiver, CD changer, dual tape deck... It was all garbage after a few years. Funny enough, the 70's Marantz stuff my mom has all still works. Nothing like hearing the speakers 'pop' when it turns on, the bluish glow of the receiver, turning those knobs, and watching the meters jump around to the music.

lqet 5y ago
I remember when I was very little there were those special occasions when my father allowed us to pick a record from his collection and he would play it, songs from strange and ancient looking albums which, as I realized decades later, were all the classic albums of the 60ies and 70ies. I also remember the "pop" sound when you pressed the ON button on the stereo, and then the thing lit up like a christmas tree, literally dozens of red LEDs and golden background lighting and the speed checker light of the turntable. As a kid, I had dozens and dozens of cassettes and later CDs that I carelessly threw around my room, they were cheap and it was nothing special. My father, on the other hand, valued the vinyl collection he built up as a teenager in the early 70ies higher than anything else of material value in our house. His generation had a completely different relationship to music than the following ones.