Wednesday, May 11, 2005
I had a new stereo installed in my car yesterday. For as large a role that music plays in my life, my previous setup was pretty shitty. The factory installed cd player went haywire about 2 years ago when (while on a cross-country road trip) it decided that it would start skipping on all CDs, regardless of their condition. Very little could be done to fix that. It would work now and again, but usually only in colder weather and most often for only two or three songs. Next came the fm-modulator 6-disc changer my father found in the garage. It didn't skip, but the high and low end of the sound spectrum was more or less lost on that fine little piece of machinery. Bass was garbled and vocals were not always the clearest. A few months ago I finally got an iPod and I bought iTrip (fm modulator) to listen to it in the car. But it only worked if you pointed it directly at the stereo, no farther than 1 inch away. My girlfriend could attest to how annoying that was (since she was often the bearer of this burdensome requirement).
So anyway, that is all behind me now. The new stereo sounds pristine and LOUD and full. And there is an auxiliary input jack built into the front of the receiver, so all I have to do is plug my iPod in and we're good to go. Just thinking about it makes me want to go driving right now.
There are certain smells and songs and flavors and films and colors and cadences, with the subsequent feelings they evoke, that I am forever trying to wrap myself in. The struggle is in identifying and retaining these feng-shui-of-the-soul initiators. I always know it when I smell it, hear it, taste it, see it, feel it, but so often I forget what it is or get so caught up in the moment of enjoyment that I don't take the time to remember what it was that brought me there in the first place (or I don't take the extra effort of finding out what it is). If I made a good list of these things and created a living space full of them, I'd be able to be productive, relaxed, and excited all in the same place. That would be amazing.
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2 comments:
return the fm modulator and get the cassette player that you can put in your tape player and put the wire into a cd player, this is less than $20 and plugs right into the headphones port in your ipod, good luck
Thanks for the info. But the new stereo I just had installed has an auxiliary input on the face, so it's very easy. No need for a cassette deck or any extra wires. It works great with my iPod.
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