Hey y'all! As you can tell from my username, I enjoy blasting away on my bike as I make my way through and around my city (almost always gray and rainy, but we do get two months of unadulterated sunshine every summer, which is when I have the most boombiking fun!).
While I did have—like many or most of us here—some early boombox models back in the day, for the last few years I've been blasting a variety of bluetooth speakers on my bike, with a Sony hi-res walkman as source. As those of you who have already seen the couple of posts I've made will be aware, I just got an Aiwa Exos-9, and I'm excitedly looking forward to blasting it on rides when the weather gets better! I do not have a car, and live in a very quiet building, and so really, my only opportunity (in a long, long time!) to enjoy full-spectrum music of my choice at full volume on anything but headphones is and will be when I'm out with the Aiwa.
Unlike most of you gathered here, it seems, I have no particular attachment to the look or sound of 70s and 80s boomboxes (I do not collect or even own any of these, and wouldn't have the space to do so even if I wanted to...), and am not too much concerned with labels and with whether object A is or is not a boombox or is "only a bluetooth speaker." You are free to say the E9 is only a big bluetooth speaker, and I won't argue with you; however, in terms of my interests and concerns, the E9 is functionally equivalent to a boombox, in that it can elicit the same joys—and arouse the same antagonisms, no doubt—as the ghetto blasters of yore (which I would agree cannot really be said of most of the bluetooth speakers out there, given their sonic limitations). In any case, when I am out on the bike with the thing it will be in a shrouded condition, and how it actually looks will be irrelevant. (I, for one, am actually glad it has a relatively nondescript appearance, as anything that drew attention to itself more than it does would really clash with the decor in my living room, which is where my E9 resides most of the time.)
At this point, you might be wondering, if you're not terribly interested in classic boomboxes, why are you joining the board? (It's not like the Exos-9 is *that* big a topic of discussion here...) That's a reasonable question, and in response I can only answer that with this new acquisition—and the extreme sonic opportunities it makes available—I may be finding myself in situations where ethical dilemmas relating to publicly-shared music may arise, and it might be useful to have the membership here as a sounding board for any questions/concerns I may be confronted with. No doubt, many of you have had to deal with difficult people in the neighborhood, etc., and I may be able to learn a thing or two from y'all about how to deal with them fairly and graciously. Such, anyway, is my hope!
Anyway, y'all seem like a pleasant, well-mannered bunch of people, with a true passion for the subject at hand here, so that in itself should be sufficient reason to join!
While I did have—like many or most of us here—some early boombox models back in the day, for the last few years I've been blasting a variety of bluetooth speakers on my bike, with a Sony hi-res walkman as source. As those of you who have already seen the couple of posts I've made will be aware, I just got an Aiwa Exos-9, and I'm excitedly looking forward to blasting it on rides when the weather gets better! I do not have a car, and live in a very quiet building, and so really, my only opportunity (in a long, long time!) to enjoy full-spectrum music of my choice at full volume on anything but headphones is and will be when I'm out with the Aiwa.
Unlike most of you gathered here, it seems, I have no particular attachment to the look or sound of 70s and 80s boomboxes (I do not collect or even own any of these, and wouldn't have the space to do so even if I wanted to...), and am not too much concerned with labels and with whether object A is or is not a boombox or is "only a bluetooth speaker." You are free to say the E9 is only a big bluetooth speaker, and I won't argue with you; however, in terms of my interests and concerns, the E9 is functionally equivalent to a boombox, in that it can elicit the same joys—and arouse the same antagonisms, no doubt—as the ghetto blasters of yore (which I would agree cannot really be said of most of the bluetooth speakers out there, given their sonic limitations). In any case, when I am out on the bike with the thing it will be in a shrouded condition, and how it actually looks will be irrelevant. (I, for one, am actually glad it has a relatively nondescript appearance, as anything that drew attention to itself more than it does would really clash with the decor in my living room, which is where my E9 resides most of the time.)
At this point, you might be wondering, if you're not terribly interested in classic boomboxes, why are you joining the board? (It's not like the Exos-9 is *that* big a topic of discussion here...) That's a reasonable question, and in response I can only answer that with this new acquisition—and the extreme sonic opportunities it makes available—I may be finding myself in situations where ethical dilemmas relating to publicly-shared music may arise, and it might be useful to have the membership here as a sounding board for any questions/concerns I may be confronted with. No doubt, many of you have had to deal with difficult people in the neighborhood, etc., and I may be able to learn a thing or two from y'all about how to deal with them fairly and graciously. Such, anyway, is my hope!
Anyway, y'all seem like a pleasant, well-mannered bunch of people, with a true passion for the subject at hand here, so that in itself should be sufficient reason to join!
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