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[Staffan]

So, we've covered turntables and (briefly) 8-tracks.

WHERE IS THE REEL-TO-REEL LOVE?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

World of Warcraft needs a rogue-only title, "the Rouge."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Trolley Problem Variations for Dads

A trolley is about to run over five people, but your dad gets distracted by a nearby sports bar playing The Shawshank Redemption on one of their ou...

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Trolley Problem Variations for Dads

A trolley is about to run over five people, but your dad gets distracted by a nearby sports bar playing The Shawshank Redemption on one of their ou...

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The next to last answer is 100% the way it'd go on ENWorld.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Trolley Problem Variations for Dads

A trolley is about to run over five people, but your dad gets distracted by a nearby sports bar playing The Shawshank Redemption on one of their ou...

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My father would be so busy talking to the other people on the trolley he'd never even notice the bumps as they ran over the people...

 

[RealAlHazred]

Juat bought a new turntable, actually, though we've mostly used it for playing CDs and as a Blietooth speaker.

Dollars to donuts a lot ofnthe folks buying Taylor Swift albums at Target have the same system, the Victrola Hawthorne multiple source system. Mine also has FM radio and a cassette player.

However, as can be seen vy my vinyl, I am not cool:

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My wife got that exact turntable. She's an audiophile. I'm not really, I'm just a guy who would love to be able to convert any medium to any other medium; but that's an expensive hobby!

 

[Bedrockgames]

One of my hipster friends and I were at an indie music store here in Portland (where all the local hipsters return every spring to spawn.) My buddy was lamenting about how he couldn't find a record he wanted, I don't remember which one, and how "nobody even makes record players anymore." The clerk was all "well, yeah, sound technology has improved a lot in the last half century, dork" and how the sound is so much better on new devices.

I thought records and record players were super big again

 

[Mad_Jack]

When I was a kid, we had one of those huge wooden stereo cabinets with the turn table, AM/FM radio, and 8-track in it that used to double as a long side table at holiday parties...

Decades after we got rid of it, my father (for some bizarre reason) decided to drag another one home from the free-stuff area at the town dump.
He never got around to fixing it up and reselling it (because he never does), but the one upside was that tucked inside the thing was a respectable stack of vinyl, about fifteen albums or so...

So now I don't have anything to play them on, but I do have reasonably decent copies of Rumors, the White Album, and a couple others.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

So, we've covered turntables and (briefly) 8-tracks.

WHERE IS THE REEL-TO-REEL LOVE?

I work at an archive. We have at least 4 working reel-to-reel machines.

So I guess that... love is all around me.

 

[prabe]

I work at an archive. We have at least 4 working reel-to-reel machines.

So I guess that... love is all around me.

Audio archivists are usually pretty cool. My gig was doing A/D conversions as part of a contract. Lots and lots of old reels. Sort of archivist-adjacent.