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.
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 😅
Imagine the lifespan you could get from one that’s been converted to modern li-ion.
What?!? They lasted months. MONTHS
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.
I liked the culture of it.
I miss when hip hop was fun
And the constant one-upsmanship to make them more and more ridiculous