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Unboxing a NEW 25-Year-Old Sharp CD-BA200 Stereo System | LGR (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/retrotechnology@lemmy.ca

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A bit of Y2K era sound system appreciation on LGR! This Sharp was my first "real" stereo as a teenager, and I recently found a new one still sealed in its box from 25 years ago! So I bought it to relive some of the experience I first had at the turn of the millennium. Unfortunately, I also experienced the expected disappointments of using such a thing a quarter century later.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Personally i recently tried one of those old hifi stereo units and was massively impressed by the sound quality.

That said, i tested it with a CD instead of streaming to it. Massive quality difference between digital and cd playback

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CD is digital.

[–] engene@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

But CDs are just smaller records 😜

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I have a pretty nice movie theater setup. I was streaming Spotify to it (at max bitrate) and always felt like something was off. I hooked up my turntable and was blown away by the difference, flac files did the same. Compression sucks lol.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Boy, does this bring back some memories...