I think CD’s are still futuristic feeling.

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I literally do not remember a world before them, and yet they still feel like future tech to me.

Dude. It’s HOURS of data compressed onto a reflective disc that you SHOOT A LASER AT and then it builds that data into a speaker or a screen.
That’s still some insane, futuristic stuff.

I don’t know, I still find the tech of discs to be fascinating. Especially when they were current, the hype that surrounded them in hindsight reflected this very weird vibe of a super reflective future where metallic, like the inside of a stainless steel water bottle.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

damn shame CDs died out and got replaced by digital download yes they were flawed in that there was a chance you get a non functioning CD but come on the feeling of catching the game in your hand look at its physical cover art flipping to see the back and all the cool stuff...

While you place the CD it gives that sound I can't remember much of it probably sounded like hnnnnnnnnn and seeing the mouse get a tiny CD on its right augh man CDs will always be peak gaming.

 

[DoubleGulpSlurpeeCup]

I think they are cool too, I LOVE old HIFI technology here is an old top load HIFI CD player. I think unique things like this are really, really cool.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I think they are cool too, I LOVE old HIFI technology here is an old top load HIFI CD player. I think unique things like this are really, really cool.

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I need this in my household half past IMMEDIATELY!

The wood grain and the gold… ITS AFTER MY SOUL BRUH! THIS THING IS GONNA STEAL MY SOUL AND MY WALLET!

 

[Deleted member 99901]

I used to buy *very* used CDs back in college from the music store, take them back to the dorm and clean them in the hallway water fountain. Then put them in brand new cases.

I have mixed feeling. I love the freedom of MP3s, but OTOH I was cool to have that physical CD collection to fix up.

 

[DoubleGulpSlurpeeCup]

I need this in my household half past IMMEDIATELY!

The wood grain and the gold… ITS AFTER MY SOUL BRUH! THIS THING IS GONNA STEAL MY SOUL AND MY WALLET!

To help your soul and wallet get stollen... it is a 1991 Yamaha GT-CD1

 

[ciro64]

It's the technology they use at Bomberman Hero so I agree with you

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Yeah, so, uh, this costs four times my rent. Possibly three.

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It's the technology they use at Bomberman Hero so I agree with you

FINALLY SOMEBODY KNOWS THAT GAME!
That game is mad fun. Kinda nasty in later levels, but it’s still a fun little time.

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So, I’ll share a small CD story.

When I bought my Dreamcast recently, the retro game shop I was at was low on Dreamcast games, so we needed to use SOMETHING to test the system with.

The man goes into the back… and comes out with a burned CD of a Limp Bizcuit album.

He gave it to me for free with my system after we were done testing.

 

[TropicalFreeze3499]

I honestly miss the 90s era of jewel cases for games. I get it though, I my share of PS1 cases which cracked or just outright broke.

 

[DeusLatom]

dude whenever i think of CDs it always just seemed so funny to me cuz its like the upgraded version of a record player in my brain lol

 

[DoubleGulpSlurpeeCup]

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Yeah, so, uh, this costs four times my rent. Possibly three.

HAHAHA I hadn't looked at the price in so long. vintage HIFI is definitely expensive, but you get what you pay for out of it......within reason....to an extent....there's always an extent.

 

[DeusLatom]

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Yeah, so, uh, this costs four times my rent. Possibly three.

NEARLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THIS DAY IN AGE????

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

HAHAHA I hadn't looked at the price in so long. vintage HIFI is definitely expensive, but you get what you pay for out of it......within reason....to an extent....there's always an extent.

I am still financially recovering from my Senheiser HD600 headphones.

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NEARLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THIS DAY IN AGE????

Yeah, don’t get too excited. There’s extenuating circumstances on this, sooooooo…

 

[diapered]

NEARLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THIS DAY IN AGE????

I was thinking the same thing. $625-833 rent is pretty good. My rent is 980 (1020 after charges for water/trash etc.) for a 1BD/BA ;_;

 

[DeusLatom]

I was thinking the same thing. $625-833 rent is pretty good. My rent is 980 (1020 after charges for water/trash etc.) for a 1BD/BA ;_;

man the feeling is so rough man, i have to move to Cali in a year or so and the price for living there might as well be going homeless LOL

It's like 1,200-1,900 for a good 1BD/BA apartment in a shady area, lucky i have my fiancé to help so ill count my blessings, i wish you the best of luck

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

I literally do not remember a world before them, and yet they still feel like future tech to me.

Then you missed out. 5 1/4" large floppies, getting software on audio cassettes! Put it in and wait 5 minutes for your program to load at something like 800 BAUD a second.

Or getting a game/program in a newspaper and having to type it into the computer in BASIC....

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

Sega cards n TG-16 hucards. imagine these fused with debit/credit/gift cards. PLAY UR OWN BANK ACCOUNT IN ADRENALINE-SURGED, INSANE PULSE-POUNDING CO-OP TRANSACTION ACTION then call your bank in the morning to straighten out the whole ensuing mess

 

[Graw]

I'm not really super nostalgic for CDs. I don't miss the way they skip or the way single scratch can ruin a song so that the part that always skips and makes a weird noise where the scratch is is forever burned into your brain as part of the song. I don't really miss carrying around a big book full of cds or trying to walk with a discman while the song cuts in and out with every bump. Plus CD's usually had like 10-15 songs on them at most.

I'll admit they were way less annoying than tapes and the little booklets and jewel cases were neat. Being able to burn cds was also pretty cool. But I mean, I kinda like having a hard drive with 1000's of flac and 320kbps mp3 files more.

I can at least understand the nostalgia for tapes and records as analog media but cds meh. There's a lot better digital storage media now.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I think part of my desire around CD’s, aside from the nostalgia value they bring in regards to how much my family burned discs back when (we were not financially well, so it was cheaper to burn discs we found at the library to some CD-Rs we picked up at a garage sale ?), but also the fact that they’re very cheap now.

We take for granted that an album BACK NOT MORE THAN TWO DECADES AGO would cost you about $20 or more for the CD. As things stand now, I can find I like an album and generally get a secondhand copy of that album for nearly nothing.

It ain’t gonna be this way forever. The CD nostalgia wave WILL COME, so I’m enjoying my time while it lasts.

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I'm not really super nostalgic for CDs. I don't miss the way they skip or the way single scratch can ruin a song so that the part that always skips and makes a weird noise where the scratch is is forever burned into your brain as part of the song. I don't really miss carrying around a big book full of cds or trying to walk with a discman while the song cuts in and out with every bump. Plus CD's usually had like 10-15 songs on them at most.

I'll admit they were way less annoying than tapes and the little booklets and jewel cases were neat. Being able to burn cds was also pretty cool. But I mean, I kinda like having a hard drive with 1000's of flac and 320kbps mp3 files more.

I can at least understand the nostalgia for tapes and records as analog media but cds meh. There's a lot better digital storage media now.

God rest the poor souls who had to use portable CD players WITHOUT SKIP PROTECTION!

I’m glad you all made it out alive.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

the 1st time I got an iPod nano in 2004 I was so happeh. I was still burnin CDs for a friend to hear stuff I was rec'ing him - whilst I was lovin my touchscreen, 16GB space, no skips in sight. BUT THE DREADED iTUNES back then made me hate Apple sooo much - I refused to eat apples. or Big Macs or mac n' cheese. or play a Punch-Out game cuz of Lil Mac. meh last name has a Mc-prefix which is closed to 'Mac' so I pretended meh last name was Crackinashackmyer. one of my grandpas names was Mac so I retroactively posthumously disowned. I even boycotted oranges cuz I knew they were in cahoots with apples. I left my job cuz of Steve 'Jobs' n refused to acknowledge Olde Testament's infamous 'Book of Job' xD

obv aLL this is absurd n obv fictitious exaggeration fodder but iTunes to this day is still an irritant of an app to deaL with overaLL IMO

 

[diapered]

I'm not really super nostalgic for CDs. I don't miss the way they skip or the way single scratch can ruin a song so that the part that always skips and makes a weird noise where the scratch is is forever burned into your brain as part of the song. I don't really miss carrying around a big book full of cds or trying to walk with a discman while the song cuts in and out with every bump. Plus CD's usually had like 10-15 songs on them at most.

I'll admit they were way less annoying than tapes and the little booklets and jewel cases were neat. Being able to burn cds was also pretty cool. But I mean, I kinda like having a hard drive with 1000's of flac and 320kbps mp3 files more.

I can at least understand the nostalgia for tapes and records as analog media but cds meh. There's a lot better digital storage media now.

I don't understand the nostalgia people have for "tapes"; they must have never had to pull a tangled cassette out of a player ;_; Also, vinyl you CAN select a song, so it is like cd technology (in that respect) and tapes were a step backward. Tapes were an economical storage medium of the time. Good riddance >_>

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

This is funny. Clownfish go off on a tangent of talking old school computer experiences when they start talking about the 70's Oregon Trail game... Might enjoy it.

 

[Graw]

I don't understand the nostalgia people have for "tapes"; they must have never had to pull a tangled cassette out of a player ;_; Also, vinyl you CAN select a song, so it is like cd technology (in that respect) and tapes were a step backward. Tapes were an economical storage medium of the time. Good riddance >_>

The only real nostalgia I have for tapes is using them for recording. They also have that over both CD and Vinyl. Ease of recording with standard playback hardware. Almost every tape player could also record whether from a microphone or the radio or another tape deck. About the closest you got to that with vinyl was DJs making acetates and shit like that and CD burning required special hardware and wasn't real time. I still remember messing around as a kid with my first blank tape taping random songs off the radio making my own collection of songs. Today obviously it's not something I'd do but it's definitely a fond memory.

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

I am still financially recovering from my Senheiser HD600 headphones

This is going to sound really silly but a while back I bought a pair of cheap wired headphones simply because they have a retro design and I really liked how they looked, but surprisingly I like them a lot more than my Sennheiser's. Actually, I haven't even used the Sennheiser's since buying them.

They were from a brand called Ashidavox. I'm not a hi-fi guy though so you might feel like they're garbage, but I like how they sound and I don't get headaches from them which is great.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

This is going to sound really silly but a while back I bought a pair of cheap wired headphones simply because they have a retro design and I really liked how they looked, but surprisingly I like them a lot more than my Sennheiser's. Actually, I haven't even used the Sennheiser's since buying them.

They were from a brand called Ashidavox. I'm not a hi-fi guy though so you might feel like they're garbage, but I like how they sound and I don't get headaches from them which is great.

Hey, no disrespect is coming from me! Unless you’re actually in the game, as in you’re trying to study audio or you’re working with audio as your job, all you need is headphones you like. That’s it. That’s all.


I got the Senny’s because audio design is my actual passion and what I’m in school for. Even then, I use them for high end, but I still go to low end stuff, because the first lesson I learned about audio is that, no matter what you make, it still needs to sound good on the lowest end equipment, with the highest end only enhancing an already good experience. If it sounds terrible on the sound devices most people use, then it’s over. You’ve failed.

That said, I still love the Sennheiser’s. Comfy headband, comfy ear cups, nice soundstage, and I take an odd amount of pleasure plugging them into things. The Mega Drive is actually amazing to plug them into because it still sounds good after all these years. (Not to mention how crazy stout that headphone amp they have in there is).