Office1000 Blog May Archive

Another 4-in-1 Music Box

By Blog Stories at 05/20/2008 04:07

In one of the recent posts, you were shown a product that combines both the past and the recent past. As what was said in that post, generation gaps may be bridged if there agreements are made between the conflicting parties. While such products may not totally bridge generation gaps, they may help.

If you are not attracted to its Victorian design of if you feel that that music system is too expensive for your liking, here is another one for you, the Emerson Heritage Music System from Emerson. Just like the stackable turntable from Crosley, the Heritage Music System is a wood veneer cabinet furnished with a walnut finish--clearly classical. This does not mean, however, that it is not well-equipped. In fact, its speakers are wide-range 4" woofers that will give a distributed sound throughout the room.

Like the other product, it has a turntable that can play 33/45/78 RPM records. It has a drawer-style CD player, as well as a casette player with an auto shutoff. Best of all (well, for me, it's the best feature), it is equipped with an AM/FM receiver that you can use during times when you are out records, CDs, and cassettes to play. Unfortunately, you cannot download songs from an online database just like how people do with an iPod.

Though it isn't as expensive-looking as the classical turntables, or even though it isn't as hi-tech as an iPod, the Emerson Heritage Music System is good enough for those who are looking for one thing that can play a million of songs--from different media forms. Check out the Office1000 gallery for other specs and prices.

Past Plus Recent Past

As I have reiterated time and again in this blog, things evolve. Things change. Nothing in this world avoid this process. It is inevitable.

Take for example the evolution of sound--more precisely, the evolution of the way sound is distributed. I won't go much into linguistic details but it seems that human beings have this fondness for recorded sound. I do not know for sure why but I guess it is because we like to repeat sounds we like over and over again. We can't possibly have the original source of the sound repeat the sound he/she/it produces everytime we want to, don't we? There is also the need to distribute the sound on a widescale basis. Getting millions or billions of people inside one venue is very costly, if not impossible.

Thanks to man's intelligence and stubbornness, ways have been found to distribute sound at a less price and difficulty. From turntables to cassettes to CDs to Blu-ray to who-knows-what-next, media has let everyone listen to music that will be otherwise impossible for us to hear.

I guess the only disadvantage here is that transitions in between distinctive media forms take so long that every generation already has its own media equated only to it, thus further widening what we call 'generation gap'.

Good thing we come around products like this (you know this will come, no?) 3-in-1 stackable turntable from Crosley. how's this gonna help? Well, it is capable of playing records, cassettes, and CDs. It looks like a very old turntable but no, it even has a LED display. So much for generation gap.