Your Most Desired Tech (1 Viewer)

[torchomatic]

What are you most desired pieces of tech and gadgets, whether new or old? For me, it's always music gear; synthesisers, drum machines, recording equipment, hifi....

Top of my list is this, the Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm from 1978. Even if you haven't heard of one, you will have heard it. That bit at the beginning of Heart Of Glass for example. Or the rhythm in Enola Gay, In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins and a hundred others. Looks clunky with it's solid wood casing, but sounds brilliant. I'll never get one though, they're three grand upwards nowadays, but behringer are releasing a clone in the next year or so....anyway, here she is...

 

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[CCfC2023]

If you would of asked that question a couple of years ago ,I would definitely say the iPod , I have had nearly all the different models and generations . Felt like should a game changer at the time ,So easy to operate and cool looking , Plus adding it with an higher end dock . Now it's Spotify and a smart phone just doesn't feel as good .

 

[fernandopartridge]

Yeah, agree on the iPod, though in fairness even bulky MP3 players prior to that were a revelation

 

[San Francisco]

If you would of asked that question a couple of years ago ,I would definitely say the iPod , I have had nearly all the different models and generations . Felt like should a game changer at the time ,So easy to operate and cool looking , Plus adding it with an higher end dock . Now it's Spotify and a smart phone just doesn't feel as good .

Can’t stand subscription services for music. I much prefer physically owning the music I buy and keeping it on a storage medium I can access any time without needing an internet connection.

 

[Otis]

I have struggled to keep up with modern technology, but am getting there slowly but surely.

So, with that in mind, I just bought a colour TV and a betamax recorder, so it's a start at least.

 

[CCfC2023]

Can’t stand subscription services for music. I much prefer physically owning the music I buy and keeping it on a storage medium I can access any time without needing an internet connection.

Im still have many 1000s of Cd,s and Lp,s , But now mostly listen to music out and about on the move .

 

[wingy]

Im still have many 1000s of Cd,s and Lp,s , But now mostly listen to music out and about on the move .

Well yes, not the time to sit and listen for an hour or so and contemplate really, get it on the go is the motto today really?

 

[Sbarcher]

I sold many of my vinyls about 10 years ago. Mostly late 60s and 70s. First pressings of Island, Charisma, vertigo Swirls etc. Made several thousand selling all over Europe. Just bought a new turntable after 30 years to play the rest of my collection. Bluetooth with a Bose SoundTouch 30 a really simple but excellent set up.

 

[stay_up_skyblues]

I really want one of these. But far too expensive for a gimmick and if I disguise it as the youngest Christmas present (he would love it) then the two bigguns qualify for a £1,000 present, which ain’t happening

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[torchomatic]

Still have quite a few MP3 players, including an iPod and an iPod Touch. This was my first MP3 player. Has a HD in it and you can hear it clunking while it finds the track. Still have it. I still use MiniDisc too and have a few decks and personal MD players.

 

[torchomatic]

Can’t stand subscription services for music. I much prefer physically owning the music I buy and keeping it on a storage medium I can access any time without needing an internet connection.

I still buy physical. I never stopped. Got a house full of vinyl, CD, cassette and MiniDisc. Still use streaming services though. Convenient when you're out and about or on the bus or something.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Still have quite a few MP3 players, including an iPod and an iPod Touch. This was my first MP3 player. Has a HD in it and you can hear it clunking while it finds the track. Still have it. I still use MiniDisc too and have a few decks and personal MD players.

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I had one of those, it was exactly what I was thinking about when I mentioned clunky MP3 players. Creative were the market leader at one point.

 

[torchomatic]

I had one of those, it was exactly what I was thinking about when I mentioned clunky MP3 players. Creative were the market leader at one point.

Yeah, they did those Zen players, which were good.

 

[no_loyalty]

My Sony Walkman was a great back in the day, would have been lost without it.

 

[LastGarrison]

I had one of the MP3 players that ran of an AA battery and took it travelling back in 2006 and it was a godsend!!! Got me through many a long train or bus journey!!

Upgraded to an iPod the next time I went away and some thieving bastard robbed in out of my room in Ho Chi Min so had to share an earphone with the Missus listening to her shit for the rest of our travels.

I’m now a well and truly converted Spotify man.

 

[ccfcno9]

I'm also music gear and hifi but hopefully can keep the desired emotion to just that ! A couple of years ago I bought into upgrading pieces whilst I still thought my hearing was reasonable, I'm 64 and probably lying to myself, I have slimmed components down now to 4 items. Nad masters amp, Nad masters streamer-pre-amp, focal speakers and an Astell Kern Mp3 player for walk abouts. On the tech side of it I'm totally won over by digital sound now as it can give you everything and more a turntable can. Many dispute this but I have HiRes digital copies of early albums that were chucked across the room when partying with mates years ago(warped,scratched etc) for the soul that turntables give, I also have a lot of studio masters of same albums that wont degenerate like physical copies can even when treated with care.

 

[Nick]

My daughter went into Fargo and bought a tape, had to go up into my mum's attic to find a player and then explain about rewinding and not being able to skip songs.

When it comes to tech. I'm a geek when it comes to automation stuff, I'll happily spend 6 hours making something to save me 5 minutes.

 

[shmmeee]

If we’re talking money no object, I’d love to order one of these to mess about with.

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[ajsccfc]

In modern terms it's incredibly primitive (even then it was to a degree) but I love the original iPod Shuffle. You could only load a few songs, could either play them in the order of upload or random and had no way to tell what was playing, but it looked like a stick of chewing gum and was indestructible. What a time in our lives

 

[richnrg]

In modern terms it's incredibly primitive (even then it was to a degree) but I love the original iPod Shuffle. You could only load a few songs, could either play them in the order of upload or random and had no way to tell what was playing....

think you needed to plug some headphones in for that m8

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Anyone got a Time Machine?