[TSF] audio deal o' the day

[GGD]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=Lew Zealand]
That faceplate and design is identical to the one I got in 1986, except no faux wood - all black. Awful sound quality - treble is quite harsh.

Circa 1986 sounds about right for this.
Other than the evidence to the contrary.

mrbigstuff wrote:
it was made in 1989 according to the manufacture sticker on the back plate.

[Lew Zealand]

The two buttons to the right of the Stop button are the Index forward and backward. Anybody remember Index tracks on old CDs? That part of the spec must have been made for classical music as that's where having separate Indexes but not separate Tracks made the most sense. I remember that a Rod Stewart CD I had at about that time couldn't use the direct track select buttons (#s 1-20 to the right of the display) as the damn thing was mastered improperly and everything was an Index, not a Track. sigh.

Index was gone by around 1990.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

GGD wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
[quote=Lew Zealand]
That faceplate and design is identical to the one I got in 1986, except no faux wood - all black. Awful sound quality - treble is quite harsh.

Circa 1986 sounds about right for this.
Other than the evidence to the contrary.

mrbigstuff wrote:
it was made in 1989 according to the manufacture sticker on the back plate.

Didn't see that. However, I think "circa" covers +/- a few years... + more likely than - for CD players of that era.

[Will Collier]

Lew Zealand wrote:
The two buttons to the right of the Stop button are the Index forward and backward. Anybody remember Index tracks on old CDs? That part of the spec must have been made for classical music as that's where having separate Indexes but not separate Tracks made the most sense. I remember that a Rod Stewart CD I had at about that time couldn't use the direct track select buttons (#s 1-20 to the right of the display) as the damn thing was mastered improperly and everything was an Index, not a Track. sigh.

Index was gone by around 1990.

Sure, you found that in a lot of prog albums with long, multi-part suites (i.e. Rush's 2112 and Hemispheres). Nice feature, I miss it.

[chopper]

Was Rush 2112 prog-rock? I thought it was teenage Stoner music in like 1979.

[decocritter]

Nice. I could use that.


I bought some Boston Acoustic bookshelf speakers in black Cr7 - tested ok . I want speakers for my TV, now I need something cheap to power them.


$13 for the pair.

[eustacetilley]

I bought one of the first of these:



It was the floor display for a local Pacific Stereo, and to sweeten the deal, they tossed in a dozen CDs, which cost ~$25 each back then. Out the door: $700.
I still have it, and it still works.

Eustace

[deckeda]

Wow, Pacific Stereo. My favorite store as a kid.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I also remember them fondly.

[mrbigstuff]

Lew Zealand wrote:
That faceplate and design is identical to the one I got in 1986, except no faux wood - all black. Awful sound quality - treble is quite harsh.

actually, the sound is quite nice. to my ears it seems the mids are kind of missing, but the bass and treble are nice. lots and lots of separation. I had to adjust my pre-amp slightly to compensate but I'm real happy with it.