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    Bose Quietly Updates Its QuietComfort Noise-Canceling Headphones (With Ears-On)

    The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler

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    Image of SinisterBill SinisterBill
    08/19/09

    In reply to Bose Quietly Updates Its QuietComfort Noise-Canceling Headphones (With Ears-On)
    So like every other Bose product, it's not that's it's bad, it just isn't worth the price?
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    08/19/09

    @Sinistar: Got it in one.
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    08/19/09

    In reply to Bose Quietly Updates Its QuietComfort Noise-Canceling Headphones (With Ears-On)
    I love my QC3's, I'm just disappointed I didn't know about these back at Christmas when I got my QC3's.

    You guys can knock them, but I love them. No longer do I have to turn up regular headphones to full volume to hear the shows on my PMP on an airplane (over the noise of the plane and the crying babies).
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    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    08/19/09

    In reply to Bose Quietly Updates Its QuietComfort Noise-Canceling Headphones (With Ears-On)
    Jesus... $300? I'm the first to admit that I'm not an audiophile but I would like to get some good headphones... is this what the "good" ones cost??
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    08/19/09

    @Gaucho85: Ahem. Do you REALLY want to get me going?
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    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    08/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:

    Actually I really wouldn't mind getting you going (platonically speaking), I'm the king of noobs when it comes to audio.
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    Image of Hachiken Hachiken
    08/19/09

    @Gaucho85: In point of fact, your $300 gets you either the typical Bose low-fi, hi-gimmick, slushy sound quality headphone, or it gets you close to audio nirvana from companies like Grado, Sennheiser, or AKG. Your choice, of course.
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    What was that thing that used to happen-- when you'd just let a cassette run on auto-reverse over and over and the tape would get so tightly wound on the spools that it wouldn't play anymore? You'd have to "unwind" it once with a pencil, all the way through, to get it to work? Right?



    Did this really happen, or am I manufacturing 80s memories again?
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    I rarely bought music on a cassette. I always bought the record and put it on cassette while I was playing it for the first time. Then I would listen to the cassette most often because records would degrade every time you played it and the cassette was expendable.

    I also had an 8 track player in my 69 Volvo. I had a Blondie's Greatest Hits and Squeeze's East Side story. I wanted one of those 8 Track adapters that you could stick a cassette inside and play it on your 8 track but they were expensive and I was poor.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    My first vehicle had a Pioneer-Craig 8 track in it. I even got the cassette adapter for it so I could listen to the new fangled cassettes. Talk about a tape eater...
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler

    I still use (micro) cassette tapes on a daily basis. When you need to do dictation, it's a proven technology.
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    07/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Micro works great for personal use, but why not use the trusty ol' phone to record things?
    More importantly, I love the mouse in this picture. The world needs more trackballs.
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    07/15/09

    @32ndnote: That is my dictaphone (though not a Dictaphone brand recorder). This is actually easier to use than a full Dictaphone machine which is bulky and clacky.



    And the trackball is my Microsoft optical trackball that I've had for over a decade. I brought it from home and keep the company-issue mouse in a drawer.
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    Image of Ehrich Blackhound Ehrich Blackhound
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    Who remembers Cassingles?! Or the maxi-single with like three or four barely-different remixes/version of the same song... Like the dreaded "acapella" version...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    The headboard of my childhood bedroom is still essentially stacks and stacks of recorded cassettes.



    The two great challenges:

    1) Deciding which two albums best belonged on opposite sides of a cassette. Prince, Under the Cherry Moon didn't really belong with The Black Album. Maybe with Sinead's Nothing Compares to U? Poison doesn't work with G'N'R after all. Maybe with that crappy David Lee Roth solo album? And hey, War works well with CSNY after all.



    2) Trying to use my multi-colored sharpies to best re-create the album cover on the spine. I believe I spent all of my artistic capital (in life) on those little thin white glossy paper, bent back, spines.
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    Image of SinisterBill SinisterBill
    07/15/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: You cannot possibly mean Eat em' and Smile as that crappy DLR solo album! That tour was my first concert!



    You remember everyone saying Van Halen was going to die without Roth, then 5150 comes out and everyone was like, Dave who?
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    Don't forget splicing them back together!



    Radio Shack doesn't sell them anymore, bit i still have a splicing block...somehwere.



    -probably next to the re-winder and the tape head demagnetizer!
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    Anyone remember requesting songs on the radio just to sit on the edge of your seat waiting with anticipation to slam down the play and record buttons. Those were the days
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    Image of twitzgall twitzgall
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    I don't think that link shows every blank tape ever...
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    07/15/09

    @twitzgall: Did you play with the controls up top? It's a sortable database of tape images. The home screen doesn't show every tape—you have to mess with it.
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    I'm guessing someone at Giz got laid for the first time in 1979?
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    Image of rDub rDub
    07/15/09

    @NurseDave: I was under the impression that most of the Giz dudes were in there 30s or younger ... that makes getting laid in 79 impressive or scary depending on how you want to look at it.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/15/09

    @rDub: This piece was written by Steven Levy of Wired.



    He was 28 in 1979. Which would also be impressive or scary, depending on how you want to look at it.
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    Image of rDub rDub
    07/15/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Thanks for the heads up ...
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/15/09

    In reply to The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
    This reminds me of my first cassette purchase: Queen Greatest Hits.

    It was a kind of magic.
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    Image of Ehrich Blackhound Ehrich Blackhound
    07/15/09

    @Skeetz: My first cassette: Huey Lewis and the News "Sports".



    -1 for myself.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/31/09

    In reply to Shure SE115 In-Ear Headphones Review: The New Top Buds
    Does anyone know if these will plug directly into the first gen iPhone, or would you need to use an adapter?
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