20 somethings are looking at this tower of power and wondering, “What is all that stuff?” It’s stereo equipment from the 1980s, and it’s not even audiophile grade either.
Every single one of those boxes has a purpose. The bottom box plays compact discs. The next one up plays cassette tapes. Next up is a tuner. That’s right, a separate box just for tuning in FM radio stations. That’s all it does. Next up is an equalizer. What’s that? It’s a box that acts like a bass and treble knob but there’s 8 of them. What’s a bass and treble knob you ask? You wouldn’t believe me if I told you. Next up is the integrated amplifier. What makes it integrated? It combines the amp with the pre-amp, silly. It took the audio signal from the sound sources like the cassette player, CD player, and tuner and amplified the signal to be loud enough to feed into speakers. Yeah speakers, missing from this picture because they’re huge! Each one bigger than this tower. And that last box on top of the pile? It’s a turntable. You probably heard about it because for some inexplicable reason, people want to play their music on a giant vinyl disc again.
Hipsters.
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