Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by slededit on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:20PM (#17501258)

It looks fancy enough and you can show your friends how retro you are. Sure a CD player would be better in every way, but everyone has those. Sound is really secondary here.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by WalterGR on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:33PM (#17501882)

you can show your friends how retro you are.

My hobbies and the things I spend my discretionary money on are superior to other people’s hobbies and the things they spend their discretionary money on.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by xiii1408 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @05:35PM (#17502402)

People still have CD players?

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by guscost on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @09:44PM (#17503809)

I just picked up an SCPH-1001 (original PS1) on eBay for 25 bucks. With the multi A/V out into a tube stereo, CDs sound fantastic. Not very convenient but a nice option.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by KozmoNau7 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @01:41AM (#17504690)

The PlayStation really isn't a very good CD player. Its controls are clunky, and it has uneven frequency response and high distortion. But I guess it's less relevant, since you're feeding it to a tube amp anyway ;-)

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by guscost on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:39PM (#17554474)

Well it's piped through a mixer first, and cmon, it was 25 bucks :)

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by slededit on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @11:24PM (#17504247)

Yea it hasn't been long enough for them to be thrown out yet. Most cars still have them too.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by KozmoNau7 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:46PM (#17501995)

Why not just get an actual 70s/80s vintage tape deck instead?

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by DanBC on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @08:50PM (#17503540)

Because they're i) mechanical and often need to be repaired and ii) shit. Seriously, tape is fucking awful for all use cases except "no other formats exist at this point in time", and that was true in 1982, but not today.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by nightfly on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @09:23PM (#17503712)

Tapes were pretty durable. Degraded tapes at least played, unlike scratched CDs which could be be effectively ruined pretty easily. Plus portable tape players could be jostled around during playback with effecting anything, while cheap portable CD players would cut out.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by voltagex_ on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @10:37PM (#17504039)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA - "better than you don't remember". This is an interesting watch if you've got the time.

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Re:Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases by yellowapple on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @11:01PM (#17504150)

I use the tape deck in my car more than the CD player, and almost as much as I use the radio.

Granted, that's mostly because I have one of those tape-to-3.5mm adapters, but even the actual tapes I pop in every once in awhile are more convenient than CDs, not to mention more space-efficient.

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