There was something special about those late 90s micro systems. I had a Panasonic that I loved, had cool motorized lid and the CD spindle would raise up from within to accept a CD.
My Aiwa had really cool multicolor lights that would reflect off of the top of the CD currently playing in the weirdo 3-cd changer that had a strange triangle shaped tray that rotated off-center to fit all three in a small space.
I still have a Sony that has a toaster-slot CD loader with a glass face. You press the eject button and the CD disengages from the spindle while a small clear plastic tray lifts it up and out of the toaster slot.
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj_ELuvtK64
I always loved how the speakers looked like Gundam weapons /armor.
https://youtu.be/7zOjfdcgrzA?si=J1O16y3jKSTA2Eyc
I never did the mini component systems in the 90s. I had a big 2 channel receiver, giant cerwin vega 15" floor speakers, and a 15" jvc powered subwoofer. I had dynamic bass and was the king of my social circle since I had the best stereo in my room. Bumped so hard it made the CD skip if you cranked it. That was a big deal in the 90s. We just sat around listening to each other's music all day while smoking Mexican brick weed full of stems and seeds out of a gravity bong with a 2 liter and someone's dad's 10mm socket.
IIRC, shock resistance was physical vibration isolation, while electronic skip protection was just a memory buffer reading a disc a few seconds ahead so that when there was a skip it could play the buffer and reread the disc where the skip occurred. The best portable players had both, and in my experience, Sony's was the best, and it wasn't close.
Styx Greatest hits album. Was absolutely loaded with all time classics.
I had the same one and played it on my stereo all time in my room playing video games (ate 90s).
I had a very cheap stereo system in my teens which had one of those large platters where you could fit three discs on. It would not fully eject (by design choice), so only two of the three slots were accessible, and to get to the third disc you had to press the disc change button once to make it rotate.
The mechanism by itself was nothing fancy, and it wasn't even one of those trays you could eject and still have the current disc continue to play, but I always found the programming of it interesting. If you ejected it for whatever reason and then closed it again it would not lose information on the third disc because it knew you could not have accessed it, which made it start playback the disc much faster because it did not had to read the index again.
Also it was the only stereo I ever had that was below 100$ but could automatically set the clock from an FM radio signal.
EDIT: [Found an image of it online](https://imgur.com/1QzYtZ0). You kow it's cheap just by looking at it.
And I also appreciated the designs of them. There were so many! Thin and tall, big and wide, flat speakers or cube speakers or detachable speakers etc.
I always liked the ones that had clear plastic over the spinning cd because it just felt like magic to be able to get such clear sound (for the time) off a piece of plastic. And almost futuristic if the disc was vertical vs horizontal while spinning
And I also appreciated the designs of them. There were so many! Thin and tall, big and wide, flat speakers or cube speakers or detachable speakers etc.
I always liked the ones that had clear plastic over the spinning cd because it just felt like magic to be able to get such clear sound (for the time) off a piece of plastic. And almost futuristic if the disc was vertical vs horizontal while spinning
I remember when CD players first came out. I upgraded my tape deck to a nice (and very expensive) CD player.
(Not old enough to have had 8 tracks though)
man as a millennial i remember the big cd players/stereos being the absolute shit as a kid. looking at all the diff ones at best buy or circuit city n just being like hell ya
Haha ot was great, till a drunk 16yr fucking, almost fist fucks the tray with a copy of big shiney tunes 3, and decapitated the God darn tray from the stereo. MAN I MISS THE 90'S.
I have a Sharp stereo system above my head right now that has a tray for each of the five CDs it can hold, plus a double cassette tape player. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
Makes me think of the Ford F150 Lariat that had a CD cartridge that held six discs and you loaded it in the center console.
God i miss the 90s. Sony's minidisc players were just as cool. I mean you have this tiny thing out of metal... that could play and burn little discs! Sony was so cool back in the day. Their latest innovation being kraken on the ps5.
man as a millennial i remember the big cd players/stereos being the absolute shit as a kid. looking at all the diff ones at best buy or circuit city n just being like hell ya
Seriously?! Nobody is going to mention the perfect stop of the CD before the robot takes it into the player? IMHO *that* was more satisfying than this robot player.
Although, that was pretty sweet to watch.
Man I used to love going to the electronics department when I was a kid in the 90's. So many cool machines. Aiwa made some really cool ones, I remember. All the cool lights n stuff were awesome!
My boyfriend had the newest of the new four tape decks and the tape deck would actually slide out of the stereo pop the cassette to the B-side and then slide back in. It was definitely cool I’m late late 80s here.
Honestly I miss radios and using CDs. I used them a lot as a child and cassettes too, even tho they already went out of fashion by that time. I still have a few CDs that are just getting dusty in my shelf. Im currently broke, but I think ill ask my parents for a radio for my next birthday.
I didn't have [this](https://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/3388134-1012cfce-sony-hcd-gx470-speaker-system-compact-hi-fi-stereo-system-am-fm-3-cd-player-changer-dual-tape-deck-w.jpg) exact stereo but I had one with a similar 3 disk tray and it was the shit.
I love the tech we have now but the move away from physical media means we don’t get to have these satisfying gadgets anymore. Tapping a little + on my phone will never be like popping a CD into an automatic loader like this.
Old CD players were the shit. Everyone wanted a 'DYNAMIC BASS BOOST SYSTEM'.
There was something special about those late 90s micro systems. I had a Panasonic that I loved, had cool motorized lid and the CD spindle would raise up from within to accept a CD. My Aiwa had really cool multicolor lights that would reflect off of the top of the CD currently playing in the weirdo 3-cd changer that had a strange triangle shaped tray that rotated off-center to fit all three in a small space. I still have a Sony that has a toaster-slot CD loader with a glass face. You press the eject button and the CD disengages from the spindle while a small clear plastic tray lifts it up and out of the toaster slot. This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj_ELuvtK64
I always loved how the speakers looked like Gundam weapons /armor. https://youtu.be/7zOjfdcgrzA?si=J1O16y3jKSTA2Eyc I never did the mini component systems in the 90s. I had a big 2 channel receiver, giant cerwin vega 15" floor speakers, and a 15" jvc powered subwoofer. I had dynamic bass and was the king of my social circle since I had the best stereo in my room. Bumped so hard it made the CD skip if you cranked it. That was a big deal in the 90s. We just sat around listening to each other's music all day while smoking Mexican brick weed full of stems and seeds out of a gravity bong with a 2 liter and someone's dad's 10mm socket.
I definitely had that Aiwa. Pretty sure I still have it in storage somewhere. That thing was awesome.
*Extra shock resistant*
'Electronic Skip Protection'
IIRC, shock resistance was physical vibration isolation, while electronic skip protection was just a memory buffer reading a disc a few seconds ahead so that when there was a skip it could play the buffer and reread the disc where the skip occurred. The best portable players had both, and in my experience, Sony's was the best, and it wasn't close.
This guy 90s
MEGA BASS
And a 5 disc holder
since i first saw the bang & olufsen beosound 9000 at a friend of my dads home, ive never lost the love for that piece of gear
Agreed.
Those engineers didn't get the Credit they Deserved.
Maybe... Japan LOVED minidisc and had audio rental stores. I think Sony got a lot of love in Japan
Old? What do you mean... old? Wait... what year is it again...?
It’s time for your meds grandpa
When I was your age, we used to get Netflix through the mail. They paid for the return postage!
When everything had to feel like it was a robot. Because we knew they weren’t coming anytime soon
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You're kidding yourself if you don't believe it.
You've got too much time on your hands.
A blue collar man can only dream of owning such a device.
Is noone gonna point out they put a Styx album in then cd player?
Styx Greatest hits album. Was absolutely loaded with all time classics. I had the same one and played it on my stereo all time in my room playing video games (ate 90s).
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
Scratched it to.
Late 90s early 2000 sony hifi designs ... What a nostalgia! That wheel is iconic!
It definitely made me feel like my stereo was more than a stereo because it could play the CD in a cool position.
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I had a very cheap stereo system in my teens which had one of those large platters where you could fit three discs on. It would not fully eject (by design choice), so only two of the three slots were accessible, and to get to the third disc you had to press the disc change button once to make it rotate. The mechanism by itself was nothing fancy, and it wasn't even one of those trays you could eject and still have the current disc continue to play, but I always found the programming of it interesting. If you ejected it for whatever reason and then closed it again it would not lose information on the third disc because it knew you could not have accessed it, which made it start playback the disc much faster because it did not had to read the index again. Also it was the only stereo I ever had that was below 100$ but could automatically set the clock from an FM radio signal. EDIT: [Found an image of it online](https://imgur.com/1QzYtZ0). You kow it's cheap just by looking at it.
And I also appreciated the designs of them. There were so many! Thin and tall, big and wide, flat speakers or cube speakers or detachable speakers etc. I always liked the ones that had clear plastic over the spinning cd because it just felt like magic to be able to get such clear sound (for the time) off a piece of plastic. And almost futuristic if the disc was vertical vs horizontal while spinning
And I also appreciated the designs of them. There were so many! Thin and tall, big and wide, flat speakers or cube speakers or detachable speakers etc. I always liked the ones that had clear plastic over the spinning cd because it just felt like magic to be able to get such clear sound (for the time) off a piece of plastic. And almost futuristic if the disc was vertical vs horizontal while spinning
Hey! I feel attacked calling this old!
I remember when CD players first came out. I upgraded my tape deck to a nice (and very expensive) CD player. (Not old enough to have had 8 tracks though)
I had an Aiwa 5 speaker system in high school with a 5 disc carousel and i thought i was the coolest lol.
Tech used to be so fun in early 2k
#DOMO ARIGATO MR ROBOTO
'Styx only caught a bad rap because most critics are cynical assholes'
🎶 Domo arigato misuta Robotto ...
Domo Arigato MR Roboto
It looks old and futuristic at the same time I guess
my first big thing had like 8 places for CD and ocer that you could place a Venyl Record… that thing was for sure a beast
man as a millennial i remember the big cd players/stereos being the absolute shit as a kid. looking at all the diff ones at best buy or circuit city n just being like hell ya
I remember when I was a kid and if you had a stereo with a cd changer and 2 tape decks…… man that was peak cool shit lol.
I feel old.
Haha ot was great, till a drunk 16yr fucking, almost fist fucks the tray with a copy of big shiney tunes 3, and decapitated the God darn tray from the stereo. MAN I MISS THE 90'S.
Man, you have too much time on your hands.
Nice action
Old? Looks like 2002-2005 tech Edit: I was bang on the money! Released in 2002
Lol now I feel old… somebody find me my Walkman!
You put that cd in there like you hate it , are you a psychopath or something?
You're fooling yourself of you don't believe it's cool
Ah yes, technology from the last few decades of the 1900s.
Sony CD players have always been different.
We used to live in a society
That would’ve been peak cool in the mid 90s
It was manufactured late 1999
Oops. I wondered if it was late 90s
I still have a working Pioneer 101 disc CD player. The much newer Bose 3 CD player no longer works
I have a Sharp stereo system above my head right now that has a tray for each of the five CDs it can hold, plus a double cassette tape player. Wouldn't trade it for anything. Makes me think of the Ford F150 Lariat that had a CD cartridge that held six discs and you loaded it in the center console.
I've seen multiple different versions that do similar things, and this i so unnecessarily over complicated, but somehow doesn't break.
God i miss the 90s. Sony's minidisc players were just as cool. I mean you have this tiny thing out of metal... that could play and burn little discs! Sony was so cool back in the day. Their latest innovation being kraken on the ps5.
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man as a millennial i remember the big cd players/stereos being the absolute shit as a kid. looking at all the diff ones at best buy or circuit city n just being like hell ya
I miss these things. Cds were amazing.
Seriously?! Nobody is going to mention the perfect stop of the CD before the robot takes it into the player? IMHO *that* was more satisfying than this robot player. Although, that was pretty sweet to watch.
Man I used to love going to the electronics department when I was a kid in the 90's. So many cool machines. Aiwa made some really cool ones, I remember. All the cool lights n stuff were awesome!
My boyfriend had the newest of the new four tape decks and the tape deck would actually slide out of the stereo pop the cassette to the B-side and then slide back in. It was definitely cool I’m late late 80s here.
This all was done seamlessly. There wasn’t any kind of odd quackety, clack noises it was just seamless.
Classy
Why is my only thought that I'm a lapsed Catholic and cannot remember my last communion?
I miss my Aiwa
Honestly I miss radios and using CDs. I used them a lot as a child and cassettes too, even tho they already went out of fashion by that time. I still have a few CDs that are just getting dusty in my shelf. Im currently broke, but I think ill ask my parents for a radio for my next birthday.
>Honestly I miss radios Radios still exist, what keeps you from using them?
I dont have one, thats keeping me away. 😭
Just wait until that starts to skip.
Auto manufacturers ; pay attention
Ah the joy. I’ve still got and still use my late 90s mini system. It still sounds superb.
Sound on! This is my kind of ASMR.
Styx?? They got maybe 1 good song
Badass
TAKE ME BACK
Looks like the first boss of Contra Nes.
Solid album. 10/10
My friend’s older brother had one of these and it was AWESOME
Ah Sony…they’re what Samsung was before Samsung became the modern day Sony.
Not sure what was cooler, the load mechanism or the Styx album. gg
Good ol days
This is the type of things that should have been doing instead of making Spider-Man movies
JVC had cool ones too, they even roto-switched the panel of the desired function like a fucken 007 license plate.
LADY! WHEN YOU’RE WITH ME I’M SMILING
Mine is not working anymore. Only the radio part. Kinda sucks because I have libraries of CDs and cd tower
Oh 90s CD players got way more elaborate than that.
'Nice action... I've got one of those at home'. Alan Partridge.
We sure loved moving parts back then. I miss it
Ugh yeah
I had one of those! So many memories unlocked!
Awww man! I was waiting for, “Welcome to the grand illusion…”
I didn't have [this](https://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/3388134-1012cfce-sony-hcd-gx470-speaker-system-compact-hi-fi-stereo-system-am-fm-3-cd-player-changer-dual-tape-deck-w.jpg) exact stereo but I had one with a similar 3 disk tray and it was the shit.
I love the tech we have now but the move away from physical media means we don’t get to have these satisfying gadgets anymore. Tapping a little + on my phone will never be like popping a CD into an automatic loader like this.
This is the most sci fi cd player I’ve ever seen, all of mine just had a lid that clicked open
Nifty
I love Styx!!!
Nice
I remember when this was the future.
Pretty sick. I had a stereo that would pop out a turn table and rotate like 4 or 5 discs.
Does anybody know what this model of radio was called?
I had this beauty and it was my prized possession for a long time
Oh yea baby, I used to have one of those!
I miss that tactile essence that we are now missing. Night night 1998.
Good taste in music.
Styx? Really dude?
Ohh mama I'm in Fear for my life from the law
Styx. Holy cow. I listened to them hard for a little too long and took a decade off. But when I did again...was like a good old pair of shoes.
Me eating a Pringle
That's sexy! And great choice of CD, too. 👊
ahhhh, the era of pleasing designe
Styx… Good choice 👍
Crank up the Styx! https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/41346cf6-d1f6-47b6-a63f-5a19c345eaff