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[โ€“] 28 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I got to thinking about like, Amazon. To an American in 1970, the equivalent would have been Sears, the retailer that sells literally everything though an enormous catalog. They had department stores you could visit in person and they'd publish a phone book thick catalog for mail order. And there was a time that Sears could have bought Amazon outright for chump change. I remember a Tim Allen stand-up routine where he talks about mail ordering a tool from Sears, and it arrives 6 to 8 weeks later. Shipping is now usually a matter of 1-4 days.

But no, the real answer is probably wireless headphones. Like if you were showing around a tech enthusiast from 1975 around my house, the thing that would probably break his brain the most is a pair of wireless earbuds.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Unfortunately they don't sound near as good. Maybe in the future they will.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Compared to a lot of headphones available in the 1970's they sound amazing.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Not so sure about that claim. In the 70s everything was analogue. Bluetooth can barely do mp3 quality let alone CD which is still far from full analogue tape. Many headphone from back them line Sennheiser HD 414, Koss Pro/4AA, and Stax SR-X blow away anything some makes now

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Allow me to re-state, with emphasis:

    Compared to

    A LOT

    of headphones available in the 1970's, they sound amazing.

    Yeah, there's been good audio gear for decades, but there was also utter garboleum.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    My issue was back then things got better every year. People chased sound quality. Now people use Bluetooth and listen to music mixed on a laptop with autotune.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Christians of Lemmy: You think your god would have bothered creating the universe if he knew it would inevitably lead to the existence of audiophiles?

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