Post #4518381 · Elektrine

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza

2026-08-19 11:17 UTC

@sean_ae@post.lurk.org @silvermoats@mastodon.social oh my gosh, you’ve triggered such distinct memories of loudness buttons from my childhood. I distinctly remember feeling “guilty” about liking it, like I wasn’t hearing the music as it “should” be. But I remember now a kind of proliferation of them, and how some sounded better than others; my dad’s hifi boosted things really nicely, but smaller more portable systems sounded even nastier when it was on, like they could barely cope with their own loudness buttons. As you mentioned though there’s probably similar-ish-in-principle but more sophisticated things going on with some modern phone and laptop speakers. :)

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@sean_ae@post.lurk.org 2026-08-19 11:27

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza @silvermoats@mastodon.social when i met rob he had an Aiwa CA-100H and that thing was fascinating sounding with DSL on, like all the hats were glistening and any lowrate sampling sounding gorgeous i should prob try to get my hands on some old aiwa tech and make a DSL processor, although it's prob like you say, very dependent on the speakers and whatnot 80s music and hifi kinda grew up in tandem (same for club rigs and PAs back then), everything was coloured for context, people making beats for boomboxes and all that i mean nothing is gonna be flat, chasing ghosts there p much (even worse with electronic music cos what even is 'should')

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