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madaboutaudio

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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2015, 07:20:49 PM »
Before ipods:
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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2015, 07:27:50 PM »
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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2015, 07:56:52 PM »


Bought it with my first serious salary. 30GB and extremely abysmal software.
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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2015, 08:12:01 PM »
Quote from: Grahame on July 26, 2015, 06:59:14 PM
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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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2015, 10:20:53 PM »
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.
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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2015, 11:21:36 PM »
Quote from: Julian67 on July 26, 2015, 10:20:53 PM
TDK SA

Those things were heavy and had a really nice smell to them.
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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2015, 11:31:17 PM »
Quote from: elwappo99 on July 26, 2015, 06:02:47 PM

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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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2015, 11:52:30 PM »
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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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2015, 12:06:45 AM »
Quote from: Julian67 on July 26, 2015, 10:20:53 PM
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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Re: Nostalgia equipment thread
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2015, 12:07:09 AM »
Soviet iPod. Still have mine.
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