1 Jan
2006
1 Jan
'06
8:52 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Sunday 01 January 2006 03:29 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Well unless you want Pantented - our chip only Stereo Am a good, radio
is still not that hard to build
or still find parts for. Then, like now Quality is always money. I
suspect it is distortion using transistors and
standard diodes or questionable IC's now days. <foot in mouth> With AM
radio all loud 80' rock and roll
people never noticed the distortion because it made that crap sound
louder and more impressive.</mouth in foot>
I think the real term is **listener fatigue**.
It reminds me of those people who feel nostalgia
for old radios or hula
hoops and Nehru jackets. The last two are just ridiculous in today's
contexts and the first will still receive only talk radio and gangsta rap,
no matter what you use for A and B batteries.
I used to work on old radios for a guy, he'd re-do the cabinets and I'd re-do
the innards. Only criterion he had for what he picked up was that the
cabinet had to _not_ be made out of plastic. One in particular that I
remember well was not only AM-FM, but had some shortwave bands as well. The
stuff I picked up in the trailer I was living in at the time was pretty
amazing, considering that I tested it inside the trailer and used some handy
hunk of wire for an antenna...
Notstalgia? Not really, I don't miss tube stuff, even though that's where
things were when I started working with electronics. What I miss is quality,
and the good sound that tube stuff had, you don't see it in later gear, not
at all. Nor the quality, either.
(Aside: I wonder why somebody hasn't come up with some kind of a filter to
get that sound? They'd make a mint!)