What can I say? This one is for work/commute use. Unlike my other two players, thanks to "G-Protection" it doesn't skip when you look at it funny.

Obsessed












I don't know if anyone out there needs this, but I was unable to locate an electronic version anywhere, so I had to buy an original paper paper copy and scan it. I uploaded a .pdf of the entire thing to hifiengine to share with the world, but not everyone has access to that site.

Vintage Audio Pr0n

Technics SL-1700Mk2 (1980)

Yeah, I've owned one…several, actually…over the years. They seem to come and go from my life and I never really understand why. They're good, solid tables—they contain the same components as the venerable 1200Mk2 series—and Technics finally addressed the arm cueing issues of the previous Mk2 automatic and semi-automatics with this design.

EAT The Rich

Just one to start, and I guarantee the rest will fall into line once they know what the masses are capable of. They think their private armies will protect them? Their private armies are closer to the masses then they will ever be to their masters. History has taught us this.

By the Late 90s…

…and early 00's, Sony had their Discman shit down to an art. It's really too bad the whole product line died only a couple years later with the advent of the iPod because it really is amazing technology.

My naked D-171 that I bought new 1998.

Yeah, the Discman cases went all plastic, but everything was now consolidated onto a single circuit board, a definite improvement in terms of serviceability. Remove four screws from the bottom and the top/tray pops right off…unlike my beloved D-10 which has two double-sided circuit boards linked by a ribbon cable, multiple wire connects,  and is much more complicated:

Or this, my original D-7 from 1986 with a belt-drive spindle motor. And look at that laser transport!

Still a feat of miniaturization and engineering considering that full-size CD decks only came on the scene a few years earlier.

Remember…obsessed.