I'm not the only family member who has been dealing with the demise of electrical goods this week. TH's stereo tuner passed away recently, and has been much missed (by him).
Like laptops, stereo systems (or whatever they're now called) have moved on over recent years. The last purchase of a "system" in this household coincided with son #1's 6th birthday, and he's 25 tomorrow. It was one of those stacking systems which included CD player, tape deck, record player, tuner, teasmade, black box flight recorder, toaster and microwave, standing proudly within a glass-fronted cabinet about the height of the average pre-teen, and featuring many flashing blue lights. Since the day it entered the house, I estimate that 75% of its features have remained unused. Over the past 10 years, most of those features have faded into obsolesence, and even the ones that are still used (The tuner. Just the tuner) have fallen well behind the latest technological advances.
If proof of this were needed, it certainly isn't now. Today, TH bit the bullet, struck while the iron was hot, took the bull by the horns and bought a New System.
This New System is, in fact, a box. Its overall dimensions are just slightly bigger than the largest available box of Weetabix. It's a tuner/CDplayer/Normal-DAB-internet radio/ipod dock and probably several other things too.
We are now staring at an obsolete cabinet full of obsolete stereo eqipment. Perched on the very top is a small silver box.....
Good morning, CB. I positively laughed aloud at your description of your stereo stack. We had one exactly the same until quite recently and though it has now been dismantled and stored elsewhere, DH can't yet bring himself to admit it's obsolete and get rid of it. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteHa! Perpetua, I know exactly what you mean! TH is currently - and very reluctantly - moving bits of ours from place to place, still in the same room! We've only reached this stage thanks to the sales. Up to now, my suggestions about getting rid of the monolith have been greeted with "What if I want to listen to an old vinyl?" - and no amount of asking "And when did THAT last happen?" did the trick.
ReplyDeleteI think TH and DH may have been separated at birth, CB. :-)
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