A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145
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Published 2020-08-19
Anybody want some links?
Here are the videos and playlist that I mentioned:
The Compact Disc playlist;
• Digital Sound and the Compact Disc
Record changers:
• Automatic Record Changers: We used to...
Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):
/ @technologyconnextras
Technology Connections on Twitter:
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The TC Subreddit
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All Comments (21)
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"The compact disc was revolutionary in many ways. Firstly, it spins" Dying
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"Too niche, too late and full of compromises" That seems to be a pattern on this channel.
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"Who is this for?" You. It's for you, Alec. And it's for us.
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Ah yes, he featured my favorite album of the 1990s: Roller Coaster Tycoon
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It's a shame this wasn't invented by Pioneer. They'd have figured out a way to make it play Laserdiscs, too. :)
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"It's sounds fine though" is to audiophiles as garlic is to vampires.
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I gotta say, out of all of the channels i've ever accidentally discovered from random suggestions i think your channel might be like, legitimately the best one. Your quality never changes, your topics are always at least mildly interesting and your jokes seem to land every time. I hope you stick around for a long time.
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I remember when these came out and wondered "Why?" But then as now, a lot of people bought stuff based on price and space. Two in one and Three in one components were big sellers in the late 70s through the late 80s, they were cheap and saved space. Kids going to college loved them. Now we have three in one printers-scanner-fax machines. Oh, and we mustn't forget phones that also take pictures!
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12:08 This man really do be putting a RollerCoaster Tycoon CD-ROM in a CD changer.
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(bloopers) "This thing is in fact, a functional phonograph!" PHONOGRAPH: malfunctions
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When I was at music college, one of my lecturers remarked that the era of analogue audio was almost exactly a century: Edison’s first public demonstration of his wax cylinders was in 1879; the first demonstration of the compact disc was in 1979—although in each case the technology took a few years to make it to the consumer market.
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I own this! I'm listening to a vinyl record as I type this. I inherited from my uncle who unfortunately passed a few months earlier. I've been looking around for more information on this. I love this thing. I'm so glad I could keep this in the family. My uncle had a bunch of operas on vinyl records from years ago. Great condition. Thank you for this video. Brings a smile to my face. Makes me smile when I think of my late uncle.
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"It fails to actually solve a problem in a meaningful way". * Designer of the unit sitting at his computer watching this with a tear running down his cheek. *
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The hills you are prepared to die on are as entertaining as the content I originally came for
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"Tray table in the full upright position" I saw that Weird Al CD. I know what you did.
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Top-loading CD changers were a thing simply because they were meant to go in the space where the turntable used to be, and since most people were getting rid of records entirely, they'd be left with a big empty space on top.
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This is even better than the combined VHS/DVD/Bluray player I once saw.
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"audiophiles don't like me because I say things like this: it sounds good" Hitting way too close to home there. Some act like you can't think anything sounds good unless your cheapest audio component is $20,000 speaker wire and demand your audiophile card.
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"it's a truly revolutionary technology. Firstly, it spins" really underrated joke
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I was in high school when this came out and I can say: I still wanted a record player, because I had records CD changers were an incredible technology A component system, or semi-component systems, were basically the standard at that time. The alternative was still a "boom box" with a separate record player
