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These things may be old, but they still have their uses today.

I still have a used, fairly high-quality audio system from the late 90s, i.e. an amplifier with good speakers, which is connected to my computer – a Bluetooth receiver for my cell phone is also connected (as well as a mixer and preamplifier for a record player).

I highly recommend it: great sound quality for little money.

Shit, my folks still had their 8 track player when I was a kid, although I don't remember them using it much in favor of records instead

Stereo racks like this? This is childhood home stuff.

Me? When I moved on my own for university, all I had on audio front was a CD/cassette boombox.

And it never got better. Had 4.1 speakers for my computer at one point. Now, not even that.

~~(Side note: I swear, people who came up with HDMI don't know what they're doing. Ethernet? Who the hell asked for Ethernet? We have Ethernet cables for Ethernet. Anyway: in a sensible design, televisions/monitors would have HDMI Audio Out ports. Which you then could wire to your brand spanking new digital input based amplifier in a giant stereo rack. Or a D/A converter box that feeds your ancient amplifier. Do any TVs and monitors work that way? Of course not, we have janky audio output nonsense. New TVs and monitors don't necessarily even have headphone jacks. Why.)~~

(Edit: Apparently I was talking nonsense. I definitely should get my morning coffee now.)

No RTR? Noobs

That has a frigging CD player in it. Ours had an 8-track.

My parents had a JVC setup. Dual cassette deck with the click buttons like a VCR, a separate tuner, turntable and a CD player. The JVC amp had a digital EQ with buttons for each bands and the meters were florescent with waterfall displays for each band. The speakers were 12 inch with 12 Inc passive radiators and we're as tall as me when I was a kid. It was black brushed aluminum.

My ex had this. You can crank an astonishing amount of noise out of these things in a way a Bluetooth speaker paired to a device cannot. The first time I was over and he put it on as I was leaving, we were then outside his place and I still couldn't hear him talking.

I bought a similar set up from a thrift store not long ago, came with the cabinet and everything. $60. The speakers it came with with put my newer tv speakers to shame, and I started building a vinyl collection because of it

Missing an 8-track player. Not sure if Sony ever made one, but I imagine they might have.

That and tower speakers in the 4 corners of the room were what we had for surround sound