Back in the day, everyone had a big stereo system. The only way to outdo your friends was the dive into the weird world of stereo system accessories.
A Radio Shack store in Marshfield, Mass., seen here on April 30, 2007. Alan Cross remembers decades earlier, when he couldn't wait to receive the Radio Shack catalogue to see what audio gear he might want next.I like shiny things, especially when it comes to audio systems. This affliction goes back to my youth when many of my generation spent ungodly amounts of after-tax income on building up stereo system s that were big, brash, and loud.
The Radio Shack equalizer was an expanded version of the basic bass-midrange-treble tone controls found on any amplifier or receiver, allowing for extra boost to the bottom end and more crispness at the top. Too much turntable rumble? EQ it out. Midrange too fatiguing? Bring it down. This model wasn’t as good as, say, an SAE parametric equalizer , but it looked cool. And frankly, once you got the sound you liked, you never touched it again.
It was about the size of a bookshelf speaker and had a translucent prismatic cover hiding a series of different coloured lights. Inside was a cheap microphone and each of the colours was set to pulsate to a certain set of frequencies . Long before there were visualizer music videos on YouTube, this is what excited us.The strobe? I got that, too, although it did little more than induce dizziness and headaches.
The catch was that you needed a special CD player to decode this information and would then relay it to a TV monitor where all the information could be viewed.
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