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Why I Love old Analog stuff.

Okey lets face it the new digital world is so rock and roll, we are no longer bound to analog items and everything can be fixed with a software update. I like it, but i also like the old school analog hard rocking radios, mixers, commodore 64 and so on. So then you might wonder, why does this guy like all the analog big stuff. A simple reason, the feeling of that little touch you give to a button and the lights turn on and the speaker starts to make noise, and you turn that big wheel and the radio starts to search for the right frequency.

All the small details they did way back, the Braun radio above is just a design master pice. Look at the back lighting, the design, the buttons, and even the typography is sleek. Ohh but thats the same as if it was an image on a hugh touch screen… Easy answer, NO WAY IN HELL IT IS!

I just got an old Saba Automatic using it as a TV shelf in the bedroom. And It’s so awesome, not as timeless in the design as Braun things are but still a master pice of Analog experiences.