Do you own a stereo?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I have one of those Record/Tape/CD/Stereo combos. I only wish my model had a USB port.

Chris

[Rallygirl]

Heck yes! We have a big, old, component system from the 1980s. The main cabinet, with AM/FM, dual cassette, and CD changer, was Ed's. We added my turn table and external 8 track. I have one of those headphone jack to USB cables and I buy all sorts of odd records, cassettes, and 8 tracks at garage sales and thrift stores and convert them to MP3.

I still have all my old records, but my cassettes were gone by the mid 90s. When I got my Discman as a high school graduation gift (Holy cow, that was a big deal back then), I started tossing my cassettes. But now, the records sit on a basement shelf next to the Discman, my Artari 2600, and my Apple IIc. All extremely useful stuff! LOL

[TomStrong]

We've got a technics record player with the glass lid. The needle is in a groove type thing. It sounds great. I've got two milk crates full of vinyl. We also have a PC hooked up in the living room and a blu Ray player that I've got a 1TB hard drive hooked up to with some videos and music on. We also do pandora in the living room through the blu Ray player. Nice to have all the options. But you know nothing beats vinyl if you've got a good amplifier and player.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I still have my Pioneer rack system from 1990, although I had to replace the CD player at some point. play CD's all the time. I also have a vintage stereo cabinet with 8track and record player that I bought at an estate sale last year for $5.00, repaired/restored and listen to all the time. Can't beat that vintage vinyl sound. we have a cd player in the kitchen so we can listed in there and I have one in my workshop in the garage. I love my music! I also have a portable boom box that we use out on the deck when we are in the pool

[Brazoo]

For sure! I don't have an amazing system or anything, I'm not much of a techie, but I love my vintage Pinoeer turn table. It's a clunky direct drive unit with a really weird arm balancing system, but I just love it.



I also have a cassette player hooked up, but I honestly almost never use it.

The weirdest thing is that I have hundreds of CDs, but I never replaced my CD player when it broke about 10 years ago. I have most of my CDs on classic iPods, so that makes them easier to go through. I should pick up a used CD player one day though.

These days I either buy vinyl or I buy a lot of smaller bands music digitally through bandcamp or iTunes store. Though, I see A LOT of newer bands releasing cassettes too. It's very odd to me!

[Mikey]

In the past it seemed like every 5 years there was a different brand stereo system you "had" to own to be on top.

Pioneer was there, as well as Kenwood and JVC.

Brands like Sound-Design (which I had) were considered department store crap.

BTW, my Sound-Design everything-in-one faithfully lasted 20+ years.

I only retired it to the dumpster because (at the time) I didn't feel a need for a turntable, cassette/8-track player anymore.

Today, wish I would have kept it.

[ubermanx]

My record player is hooked up to my TV/Surround Sound receiver. So I guess that has replaced my old school "stereo system".

For listening to non-LP music/radio we connect our smartphones streaming Songza to a Google Chromecast also connected to the TV/Surround Sound receiver.

- Marty

[spacecaps]

1970 Electrohome 862 Apollo Stereo w/Am FM Radio & aux jack complete with original cannonball speakers on a vintage record rack. The speakers sit atop a pair of mid-century stained glass lights. There's an 8-track below on the bottom shelf too. Super Space Age. This is right in my living room and pretty much the first thing you see when you walk through the front door. I had this serviced a few years ago and it sounds amazing. Records never went out of style for me. I've always bought them even in the cd era. We use this almost nightly. If your gonna listen to vinyl, a vintage stereo is the way to go.

[Mikey]

1970 Electrohome 862 Apollo Stereo w/Am FM Radio & aux jack complete with original cannonball speakers on a vintage record rack. The spears sit atop a pair of mid-century stained glass lights. There's an 8-track below on the bottom shelf too. Super Space Age. This is right in my living room and pretty much the first thing you see when you walk through the front door. I had this serviced a few years ago and it sounds amazing. Records never went out of style for me. I've always bought them even in the cd era. We use this almost nightly. If your gonna listen to vinyl, a vintage stereo is the way to go.

Better watch

That thing looks like it might have it's sights set on Earth's conquest.

[4NDR01D]

I have a record player and I collect records. However, I mostly use my phone (I use the Deezer app) or I listen to music on YouTube when I'm at my computer.

[Mikey]

Same here, listening to Dark Side as we speak.........

[Nostalgiabuff]

hey Mike, my vintage system is actually sound design, has radio, 8 track and record player and I love it. yeah it was cheap crap for it's day but now it is all retro goodness. I had to take apart the record player, clean out all the old hardened lubricant and add new and now it sounds great. the 8track had to be totally cleaned and demagnetized but now works great, not that I care to play 8 tracks much, although I do have a few

[Hedji]

Spacecaps, that setup is AWESOME! Looks like the mothership! Really a work of art. Well done!

[ZombieJimC]

Pioneer VSX-9300 receiver thats as big as my hand, Technics dual cassette, Hitachi 10 band eq, Technics direct drive automatic turntable, 4 Cerwin Vega speakers and over 200 records. All that is now in the garage. I put some albums on once in awhile. Got a little Aiwa system in the house that never gets used. Used to have a Sanyo MR-X5 boombox with a guitar strap on it. I used to take that thing everywhere before I got a car.

[Mikey]

hey Mike, my vintage system is actually sound design, has radio, 8 track and record player and I love it. yeah it was cheap crap for it's day but now it is all retro goodness. I had to take apart the record player, clean out all the old hardened lubricant and add new and now it sounds great. the 8track had to be totally cleaned and demagnetized but now works great, not that I care to play 8 tracks much, although I do have a few

Very cool !!!

Got mine at K-mart back in the day..

Think I payed like $249.00 for it back in the day -- which was pretty expensive at the time

Getting nostalgic thinking of my headphones -- today you'd think they came from Apollo 11