Newsletter 111
Hola.
This week I came across a couple of music CDs and thought I'd like to listen to them at home, but something that was common not so long ago turns out to be practically impossible now. I don't have a hi-fi system with a CD player, I don't have a computer either, I don't have a video game console... If I wanted to listen to the content of those CDs I had to go to Spotify.
As a child, I was fascinated by hi-fi stereos. All those buttons, lights, the equalizer, the mechanical part, the sound of the CD tray when you put on a record... It was wonderful to walk down Calle Barquillo in Madrid and see all those specialized music stores where you could see the latest models from Sony, Pioneer, JVC, Denon and other brands that are now barely known. We have replaced that sound quality and that passion with a mobile phone and wireless speakers. And I don't like it.
I still buy vinyl because I like going to thrift stores in the cities I visit because I still enjoy that moment of putting the record on the turntable while reading the album credits. I still feel the impurity of the analog sound inside of me.
I never thought I would live in a house without a hi-fi stereo.
— W.
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