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Heefty
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May 23, 2016
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For me it was my first portable CD player (dating myself much?). It was a Koss and I'm pretty sure the model was "Battery Hog." I was 12. I was riding with my mom in a Red Chevrolet Safari on the interstate to San Antonio, TX.
I was used to the "portable cassette player/record your favorite radio song tapes" scene and had convinced my parents to buy me a switch up for Christmas. At first I didn't notice the difference, but hey, it was the future and I was cool enough to have one. One day I figured out that I could plug in my headphones all the way. That was the moment! I had been cross connecting both sides on the stereo output and getting some muffled horrible mono experience because there was a gasket of some sort around the 3.5mm connector that made plugging in the headphones hard.
Getting the connection right opened my eyes to how good music could sound and I've been chasing another moment like that one ever since. It's taken me in many directions since then but I'm still chasing the same buzz.
May 23, 2016
MikeMD
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May 23, 2016
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HeeftyHow much skip protection did that bad boy have? My first didn't have any and made balancing it on the bus ride to school a morning ritual.
May 23, 2016
Heefty
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May 23, 2016
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MikeMDHaha! I think mine may have had a good second on it. It was very high tech. AND at just over under 10lbs quite portable. I just found a picture of the exact model. How did I ever manage to carry this thing around?
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May 23, 2016
davidrools
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May 25, 2016
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HeeftyThat's awesome. My first (portable) CD player was a Koss that came with a little springy stand as part of a "car kit" with cassette adapter. That was middle school. High school was when I got a Sony with 10 seconds of anti-skip buffer.
May 25, 2016
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