CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS
Lobby => Soapbox => Topic started by: madaboutaudio on July 25, 2015, 10:37:45 PM
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Back in the 90s, this was the defacto audiophile earbuds:
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F**k Sony. This is the real shit: :)p1
(http://www.walkman-archive.com/gadgets/series/photos/previews/aiwa-hs-jx505-series-03.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31B394KN81L._SY355_.jpg)
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If you think Planar magnetic have good ear shaking bass, wait till you hear this guy:
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C'mon guys, this is where it's at...
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I remember being super excited when this arrived in the mail. 1 GIGABYTE of space! Rechargeable battery! COLOR screen!
(http://kensroom.c.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_bda/kensroom/IRIVER_IFP-995.jpg%3Fc%3Da0)
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If you think Planar magnetic have good ear shaking bass, wait till you hear this guy:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81DNE0VP40L.gif)
Didn't they have a model where you put a battery (AAA?) to power the bass effect?
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I remember being super excited when this arrived in the mail. 1 GIGABYTE of space! Rechargeable battery! COLOR screen!
(http://kensroom.c.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_bda/kensroom/IRIVER_IFP-995.jpg%3Fc%3Da0)
Oh man, I had so many iriver players. Loved them to death. After the company started going downhill in like 2008 I moved on. Customer service went from stellar to literally refusing to fix a player that was under warranty. Swore I'd never buy another iriver unit. Figured it wouldn't matter since they were about to bankrupt. But then the Astell and Kern line popped up. Either way, I'll never buy another iriver unit.
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Any love for the Rio Karma
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and pre loudness-war masters.
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Before ipods:
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(http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m488/Glantoir/GoodMD_zpsd8a394e2.jpg)
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(http://sp.sony-asia.com/media/32/15979)
Bought it with my first serious salary. 30GB and extremely abysmal software.
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Any love for the Rio Karma
YES!
Still the best GUI, form factor, and controls that I've ever seen on a DAP.
The two level browsing (letter of the alphabet, and then everything that starts with that letter) plus the detented scroll wheel were absolute gold. I used to be able to bring up my favorite album while driving without even look at the screen.
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You are all mere striplings with your boring digital stuff. I still have my Sony WM-D6C
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OK, I admit it is in the bottom of a huge storage box and hasn't seen daylight in many years and hasn't been actually useful since maybe before the last millenium. But TDK SA and MA did sound great.
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TDK SA
Those things were heavy and had a really nice smell to them.
(http://www.c-90.org/FOR_PROGRAMMER/tapes/TDK/TDK%20MA-XG%20Fermo/0/cassettes_1_0.jpg)
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Oh man, I had so many iriver players. Loved them to death. After the company started going downhill in like 2008 I moved on. Customer service went from stellar to literally refusing to fix a player that was under warranty. Swore I'd never buy another iriver unit. Figured it wouldn't matter since they were about to bankrupt. But then the Astell and Kern line popped up. Either way, I'll never buy another iriver unit.
Yep. I had a bunch as well, but the iFP-999 was the last one. Not long after they decided to block mass storage support in favor of requiring their BS software to transfer music, and I lost all interest in them. Went to Cowon after that.
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Had my trusty walkman for years. Hated my discman for eating CDs. The first all digital player I had was the Rio pmp300. I remember getting almost a whole CD of mp3s on there and being so excited.
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You are all mere striplings with your boring digital stuff. I still have my Sony WM-D6C
OK, I admit it is in the bottom of a huge storage box and hasn't seen daylight in many years and hasn't been actually useful since maybe before the last millenium. But TDK SA and MA did sound great.
I have a bunch of TDK SA's in a box with my vinyl album collection at the time recorded on them. I found my old cassette deck a couple of years ago. Cleaned it up. A few of them still sounded pretty good, but a lot have lost fidelity. But considering they are all over 30 years old, not bad. TDK SA rocked!
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Soviet iPod. Still have mine.
(http://cdn.head-fi.org/a/a5/800x600px-LL-a530d5cf_H140_2.jpg)
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If you think Planar magnetic have good ear shaking bass, wait till you hear this guy:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81DNE0VP40L.gif)
I owned and loved this thing as an adolescent - although I tended to steer clear of the bass boost. Ugly as sin but utterly indestructible. I have no doubt it would still be functional and a perfect hand me down for my five year old if it hadn't been boosted from my trunk 20 years or so back, along with the better part of my CD collection.
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Soviet iPod. Still have mine.
(http://cdn.head-fi.org/a/a5/800x600px-LL-a530d5cf_H140_2.jpg)
I think I love you and want to have your babies. Failing that, do you still have the box and manuals for the iRiver? I will pay postage. <<<<joke...aaaaggh
btw I still have those earbuds!
and another thing.....while the headphone out on those old iRivers is a bit hissy and unsatisfying the (physically and measurably different) line out is effin' good and fully worthy of an honorary eyepatch award, a yo ho ho and a bottle of rum (I'm not buying). I upgraded my H140 battery to a high capacity Cameron Sino (2200 mAh) and replaced the clunky Toshiba 40GB slooooow HDD with a Kingspec 128GB SSD and installed Rockbox firmware to the player's ROM (so no dual boot or running the OS from disk) and it is still, 10 years after purchase, a truly useable and enjoyable player.
edit: I just checked where my earphone lead goes to and it is ......my 128GB iRiver H140 playing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Musst Musst..... I suspect old Nussie would not approve of the truly gargantuan volumes of beer, port and wine I have drunk before and during enjoying his fabulous voice and crazy muslim songs but it's my player, my files, my ears and my grossly abused liver so fuck'im. Hallyfrigginloolya.
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btw I have two of those remote controls, if any *established* member here, i.e. not some shithead looking to make a buck on ebay, wants one of them just let me know and we can work out the postage cost. I am in UK. I have one black control and one silver. Postage may be inexplicably higher for the black one cos I like it more.
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I bought the Sony MZ1 Minidisc player/recorder when it came out and when I listened to my first two pre-recorded MDs (Pearl Jam -Ten and Singles Soundtrack), I thought yuck wtf is this crap. It sounded like badly encoded low bitrate mp3s. So in the end, I returned it within 30 days and got this instead...
(http://medias.audiofanzine.com/images/normal/sony-tcd-d7-443931.jpg)
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Soviet iPod. Still have mine.
(http://cdn.head-fi.org/a/a5/800x600px-LL-a530d5cf_H140_2.jpg)
Yup, this is what I'm talking about. This was seriously a well thought out unit. Sounded stellar and was loaded with features.
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I have the iRiver H340 and the H10 (20gb). Add a Sony Discman and yes I just about skipped on the tape Walkman in the 1990ties.
I also still dig my old CD-players. I like the old Philips and Sony models with the better DAC-chips, transports and completely functional design in a black box form factor. Even in my Hype-Fi days I still insisted on my CD-players as part of the experience.