then you remember they required a family of D batteries and lasted 2 hours tops. meanwhile my phone can connect to several speaker and headphone sets and deliver astonishing quality compared to tapes, while barely moving the battery meter.
The decent ones are ridiculously expensive now. It’s crazy. If the one he’s holding is the one I think it is, that specific models is worth thousands now.
Man, I miss boom boxes…
then you remember they required a family of D batteries and lasted 2 hours tops. meanwhile my phone can connect to several speaker and headphone sets and deliver astonishing quality compared to tapes, while barely moving the battery meter.
Imagine the lifespan you could get from one that’s been converted to modern li-ion.
If your phone did the full signal amplification and driving of the speakers, that battery would die pretty quickly too.
Only, like, 8 D cells, which only cost 1 paycheck or so 😅
What?!? They lasted months. MONTHS
I liked the culture of it.
And the constant one-upsmanship to make them more and more ridiculous
https://spaz.radio alluded to here
I miss when hip hop was fun
The decent ones are ridiculously expensive now. It’s crazy. If the one he’s holding is the one I think it is, that specific models is worth thousands now.