Hilarious article:
13 Year Old Uses Walkman for a Week. Result: Embarrassment
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Hilarious article:
13 Year Old Uses Walkman for a Week. Result: Embarrassment
That's child abuse!! ;) :) :D
Loved it! It's a great idea, and a shame the article is only a few lines long.
I know. I wanted more details about exactly what happened, his experiences while using it, etc.Quote:
Originally posted by Jidoe
Loved it! It's a great idea, and a shame the article is only a few lines long.
OMG, poor kid.
Well, at least he gave it a shot. I don't know if his 'shuffle' mode was that adequate though.
How miniaturisation goes. In its day, the Walkman was pretty tiny. How would you like to carry a record player about in your pocket? And now, music playing devices are so tiny - you build a user interface, slap a circuit board behind it, and that's that.Quote:
[My Dad] had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
If you want more than the few lines of article, click the link at the bottom - he's done a fairly thorough comparison of ipod vs walkman. Notable point:
This is a feature lacking from just about everything. I wanted to watch a movie with my brother last night, without using large speakers that would share it with the entire household (most of whom, it being 1AM, were trying to sleep). What were my options? A physical splitter, which does an appalling job; having VLC both play locally and stream to a networked computer (which resulted in about a second of lag (!), completely killing sync); UDP multicast (that is, having VLC stream to two separate computers - still lagged); several other equally bad options. What we ended up doing was what we've so often done before take a pair of bud earphones and wear one each. Funny how we can have all these advances in technology without ever recovering a lost feature.Quote:
But it's not all a one-way street when you line up a Walkman against an iPod. The Walkman actually has two headphone sockets, labelled A and B, meaning the little music that I have, I can share with friends. To plug two pairs of headphones in to an iPod, you have to buy a special adapter.
I think the worst part of the Walkman setup, though, is its habit of eating cassettes :( So many of my favourite tapes from those days are now dead, chewed to pieces... even us youngsters knew how to put a cassette back together (without twisting the tape), it was a vital skill if you wanted music!
A bit off topic, but you should be able to add latency to what VLC plays to get them to sync up. Physical audio splitters should work perfectly fine, you might have to turn up the level a negligible amount, but it shouldn't degrade the audio signal in any noticeable way. Or you could always invest in a headphone amp with multiple outputs. Depends on how often you do this kind of thing as to whether or not it's worth the investment.Quote:
Originally posted by Rosuav
This is a feature lacking from just about everything. I wanted to watch a movie with my brother last night, without using large speakers that would share it with the entire household (most of whom, it being 1AM, were trying to sleep). What were my options? A physical splitter, which does an appalling job; having VLC both play locally and stream to a networked computer (which resulted in about a second of lag (!), completely killing sync); UDP multicast (that is, having VLC stream to two separate computers - still lagged); several other equally bad options. What we ended up doing was what we've so often done before take a pair of bud earphones and wear one each. Funny how we can have all these advances in technology without ever recovering a lost feature.
As for the kid? Awesome. They should do this to more kids.
Another note... I am amused by the comments on the article and people arguing about whether tapes or MP3's have better sound quality...
and all the kids arguing that MP3's are better and that anyone thinking otherwise is looking back at the technology of their youth with "rosetinted earbuds"
Many people complained about the crappy tape noise and stuff of tapes and saying stuff like "sometimes analog isn't better than digital."
Why this is amusing to me, personally, is because one of my teachers at school smacked students in the face with this very same topic by proving them all wrong... 90% of people who've used tapes for music actually have no idea how to properly use audio tapes for music. You see, there's this beautiful thing called Dolby (yes the same company that does all the surround sound stuff for movies). And Dolby had several varieties of Audio processing for cassettes, and if you knew the proper type of tape you were listening to and engaged the proper Dolby settings... Cassettes sound *AMAZING*. It's an incredibly shocking thing to hear a cassette without Dolby and then to engage Dolby A and switch to Dolby B.
On another side note, Dolby is the reason people think records sound better than CD's too. Because almost all vinyl pressed after like the 50's uses some form of Dolby (and a couple other companies) compression to keep the bass from causing the record to skip... on playback, a dolby amplifier in your recordplayer actually CRANKS the bass which helps add to the "warm" sound of vinyl records...
Okay, I'll stop being a sound nerd for now ;)
This is actually interesting stuff! Thanks.Quote:
Originally posted by Bael
Okay, I'll stop being a sound nerd for now ;)
Yeah Bael. Thanks for that info. That was interesting. Let er rip!
I remember cassette players with multiple Dolby settings.