#MAGNAVOX SOUND NORMALIZER PORTABLE#

(multiple units of each, too, and ran some subjective tests comparing the two, etc, in an ABC/hr DBT format. Ok, I tested a variety of CD players back when what we had was the CDP101 and the Magnavox/Philips SL2020. Fore very decent CD player that got sold, there were ten cheaply made ones sold in Sears and Kmart. there was no Google, and no AudioScienceReview. Heck if your components were in a cabinet, the cabinet itself would have been $500.ДЄnd back then there was no good way to really compare audio equipment. The McIntosh MCD7000 was $1500 just for the CD player. You couldn't tell with those noise floors.ДЄmir has an Mark Levinson No 360S from that ERA. I'm not saying that other factors didn't come into play. CDs were capable of more dynamic range but were mastered with less. But they weren't buying Led Zeppelin remasters (1990 version) (which sounded like crap) or Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction or Mariah Carey Glitter. Sure there were plenty of adults (30 somethings who I considered to be astonishingly old) who had better audio systems and they were happy to repurchase their Neil Diamond collection on CD. I had a big silver plastic sticker that I added to mine so I didn't accidentally do that. 'One touch recording' was a 'feature' where you could accidentally erase your favorite mix tapes. Note: The one on eBay right now wasn't mine, I don't think. If you want to mass-market a CD, it has to be able to play well in 80% of the players that are actively in use. I didn't say that good receivers weren't *available* or even *approachable*. It was only a few years prior that having enough heating oil for the winter was a concern). No, you didn't have to be rich to buy that (as clearly we weren't. If you'd like to find one on eBay with a purportedly working CD player and send it to Amir for measurement, well, I'd love to see the result! In retrospect, the disc was probably fine. I remember being visibly angry when trying to exchange a CD at the local chain retailer that wouldn't play on my system but played on theirs. You can still find them used on eBay but they all have the disclaimer that the 'CD skips.' Of course I think I had problems since day one. In 1990, you could buy the Aiwa CSD- XL202: (a model I had) for $149 per this article from the Washington Post. The cost of CD players was initially high, but came down rapidly. You could buy a 'stereo' at Sears, Kmart too. I even sold gear at a 'Best Buy' type discount electronics store in NYC (Crazy Eddie!) for a few months in the mid '80s. Connectivity for a pair of speakers, a cassette deck, a turntable, and 'aux' (and later.

Volume, bass end treble tone controls, balance, and maybe a 'loudness' button is what you got. How much do you think a basic mass market receiver cost back then? They weren't AVRs, they weren't feature loaded.

#MAGNAVOX SOUND NORMALIZER PORTABLE#

(Prior to that we did have portable 'Walkman' cassette players and headphones, but that did not spark a loudness war because the digital technology did not exist)Д«y 1998 there were absolutely many cheaper options than that. Sorry, but that's simply wasn't true, until the *1990s*, when 1) digital compression came into use and 2) portable players and headphones were the rage. It was at all not unusual in the USA in the 1980s, and I seriously doubt only 1% of the adult population possessed what was considered a totally normal 'stereo system' at the time. Maybe where you were - but all my friends -early twenty-somethings, all firmly middle class with working class parents, all rock music fans, not wealthy.

Magnavox sound normalizer