Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy from Company C*
Monday, April 27th, 2009 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanEvery now and then I am reminded just how much speaker technology has advanced since I was a kid. It's not something I think about often, but now and again...
When I first came to London back in 1984, I was convinced that I'd only be here for two years, three tops, so I didn't bother bringing anything like a hifi or records (yes, it was that long ago). I did have a twin tape radio ghetto blaster, though. After a few years, I upgraded to a CD-tape-radio ghetto blaster and that lasted me for some time. Then, of course, I purchased a proper CD hifi and that was that. I always remembered that the speakers I had at my parents were much bigger than those that came with my new hifi and one day I resolved to lug the brutes down to London.
Awkward on the train.
Any road up, I duly got them down here and faffed about a bit setting them up and wiring them in only to find that my memory had lied and that the sound that had taken me happily through my teens and early twenties was in fact awful. Big the speakers may have been, but technology had moved on. For some years they remained as very large bookends and then got thrown out once space became a problem. That was the first time I realised how much things have changed.
Since we are going to St David's for a long weekend next Saturday, I decided that now would be the time to purchase portable iPod speakers. This mI have duly done and acquired something called StreetParty III, from a brand called Gear4. Thus:
I have to say that I am very pleased with them. Once again, technology has moved on and it sounds marvelous. And loud. Furtle did point out that the bass is a bit poor, but then the speakers are not that big. But the sound is clear and I don't think they will take much getting used to when used on the move.
*I couldn't think of a title, Okay?
When I first came to London back in 1984, I was convinced that I'd only be here for two years, three tops, so I didn't bother bringing anything like a hifi or records (yes, it was that long ago). I did have a twin tape radio ghetto blaster, though. After a few years, I upgraded to a CD-tape-radio ghetto blaster and that lasted me for some time. Then, of course, I purchased a proper CD hifi and that was that. I always remembered that the speakers I had at my parents were much bigger than those that came with my new hifi and one day I resolved to lug the brutes down to London.
Awkward on the train.
Any road up, I duly got them down here and faffed about a bit setting them up and wiring them in only to find that my memory had lied and that the sound that had taken me happily through my teens and early twenties was in fact awful. Big the speakers may have been, but technology had moved on. For some years they remained as very large bookends and then got thrown out once space became a problem. That was the first time I realised how much things have changed.
Since we are going to St David's for a long weekend next Saturday, I decided that now would be the time to purchase portable iPod speakers. This mI have duly done and acquired something called StreetParty III, from a brand called Gear4. Thus:
I have to say that I am very pleased with them. Once again, technology has moved on and it sounds marvelous. And loud. Furtle did point out that the bass is a bit poor, but then the speakers are not that big. But the sound is clear and I don't think they will take much getting used to when used on the move.
*I couldn't think of a title, Okay?