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I snapped this shot of a very shiny classic Pioneer receiver and turntable in Mark's office without even noticing the iPod docked into the iGroove HG behind it. A study in contrasts.
And a turntable too! .... How cool is that.
I've actaully thought about bringing a turntable to the office but I'd at least need to get a headphone pre-amp or another phono preamp so I could have a turntable at home though i think I have an old RS mixer that has a phono preamp and headphone amplifier...
but I work in a pen (4 person cube) ... maybe if I had a real office... or even a cube of my own ...
Of course if I had an office I could listen to speakers instead of headphones... and there'd be room for a crate of vinyl..... someday, in my dreams anyway
Mark has one of the only offices in all of Klipsch with actual stereo systems in it. He probably has 6 pairs of speakers at any given time. He's my HERO!
I used to have a receiver just like that when I was little, maybe around 12-14? (26 now). Eventually the power supply caps got pretty bad and it got noisy, and I moved on to something else. But while I had it, it was really cool! Let me tell you, that dial lamp is bright, it used to light up my bedroom at night, was like a night light!
-Jon
A real stereo and up to 6 pairs of speakers in one's office ... now that's my kind of office! (he dreams while sitting in his pen)... of course he does work for a speaker company.
When we finally got around to getting PCs in the office a few years back (goodbye boat anchor dumb terminals) (nazi like) management left all the speakers that came with them boxed up and stored them away.
And when I first came here and pulled out my portable CD player and headphones you'd have thought I'd stripped down to my birthday suit... coworkers all wide eyed y.y.yyyou.u.u c.c.can't.t d.do t.that h.h.here ... man I had done that in corporate headquarters la-la land less than 2 years earlier. The place where we had to put on our suit jacket to walk to the men's room - even if it was only a few steps away .... but what will our clients think (if they see you walk to the restroom without your jacket on?), thankfully I bit my lip on that question. I thought putting on our jackets to go to the cafeteria was severe enough but to go to the men's room? (And people think I'm nuts) Thankfully the gestapo like leadership where I work now retired or loosened the ties cutting off the oxygen to their head..
It was during one of those fully dressed lunches during a death march of a project, that Todd, one of my coworkers at the time uttered one of my favorite office sayings ... "anybody gotten up enough courage to go back to work"
(yep - up way to late last night - but Stevie Ray Vaughn was on PBS - thankfully I have the pen to myself today - and some tunes to block out the distractions of the open office plan)
also reminds me of one of my college professors who had a real to real in his office
