Vintage Audio Advertising

[iMickey503]

I guess. I'm not going to pretend I get your post jeff. But I think it makes sense to you and that's good enough for me.

And for the thread Listening enjoym3ent?

 

[Doodski]

I guess. I'm not going to pretend I get your post jeff. But I think it makes sense to you and that's good enough for me.

And for the thread Listening enjoym3ent?

Nothing like a little culture from the Beastie Boys.

 

[Katji]

Check the ashtray and cigarette.
...Nowadays I notice it when someone in a movie smokes a lot. Last night I watched Dead Poets Society* and the teacher was smoking his pipe in the classroom. [I saw a movie was starting, stayed there to see what it was, and i ended up watching most of it even though i didn't really like it.

*Good Morning Vietnam showed up a week or two ago, it was good to see it again, he did a good job.

 

[JeffS7444]

I guess. I'm not going to pretend I get your post jeff. But I think it makes sense to you and that's good enough for me.

It was a good tale of a special time in your life, nothing snide intended.

 

[iMickey503]

Jeff, I wouldn't be able to tell snide if it hit me on the ass. I think I even need to look the word up in the thesaurus.

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*Good Morning Vietnam showed up a week or two ago, it was good to see it again, he did a good job.

Forever and ever Robin will be the icon of legend for years to come.

This was I think the 12th DVD I got when I got my DVD player.
An APEX. The cool one with the CD-ROM drive.
The last part of that movie.. CLASSIC Robin Williams.

What I did not know at the time was that it was Based on a real story:

Voice of ‘Good morning, Vietnam’ dies at 79

Air Force veteran and disc jockey Adrian Cronauer died on Wednesday.

www.airforcetimes.com

This was the O.G.

Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey in Vietnam for the Armed Forces Network, was beloved by many of the American troops who served in Vietnam. (Air Force)

A great story about the movie was published a back in 2017.
The last time he was in film was in Night of the Museum. Always making people smile.

Mr. Williams also had a really nice home theater setup.

The only weird thing is? I can't imagine watching a movie like this at home. Where is your girl going to sit? The best part of watching a movie is sharing the couch with your "Favorite deputy" next to you.

THIS IS THE ONLY RIGHT OPTION!


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It does make you wonder why some people prefer the the other. When someone added the question what is missing in these new adverts? It's this above.

Out of the 500 images I search? These were the ONLY two that came up. And neither was a real advert.

Sonos

Philips in India

Philips again

Toms Guide

That's out of a search of about Home Theater equipment.

I went through my magazine collection and I did notice something that was really odd everything past the 80s was almost completely devoid of people. In fact when I looked at my 90's era Library collection of magazines same thing there are some very little people in the advertisements accept the Playboy magazines that I looked at.

Even in this era, it still seemed to have a playful human touch or connection.

Even the comics seem actually funny with a human touch.

In comes MaxPower Magazine. THE Decline starts in the 2000's/

sound n vision

Car audio and electronics 2oo2

Either they started running out of Models? Or they just wanted to keep people out of them.
Not sure.

But it seems so cold and sterile and generic as time goes on. It seems like they want to take out people maybe for the reason they want to remove the ability to identify the time period or some other more artistic reason.

See Here:

I wonder if the colors mimic mood?

It just seems weird to something like this:

I found this on Figo. And I think it explains a lot of what's going on.

these people running advertisement departments don't know art if it ran into them on the bus.

 

[AdamG]

Almost eight pages in and I’m still stuck on post #4? Ahem, where were we?

 

[iMickey503]

Oh Oh..
Hi ADAM! How are ya!

 

[Katji]

LOL just go with the flow. I already have 2 pending mini-essays, I don't want to get the idea I should rationalise this here.


[iMickey has joined the conversation] hey. Those long strings, looks like Google image links, they do exceed the max. length here, you have to open image in a new tab and get the URL from there.
Good story. Yeh, sometimes i wonder, what's going on.
The missing factor...I thought of asking if you meant something that starts with P, but now you've given me another opportunity...

 

[Katji]

these people running advertisement departments don't know art if it ran into them on the bus.

I've had to deal with them, sometimes, as a software developer. Retail fashion. ....The people running the departments, maybe worse than the ones working for them. These ones have done some good tv ads, but I suppose that has more to do with the ad agency/producers than them.

 

[JeffS7444]

2020s USA has entered the era of the unisex public toilet: if you want to sell to a big part of the population, it seems that you cannot avoid talking about values: You wouldn't think that a manufacturer of sound reproduction gear would need to make statements about their role in society and the planet, but it seems that it's expected now.

https://www.genelec.com/people-society
https://www.harman.com/sustainability
https://www.bose.com/en_us/about_bose/sustainability.html
https://www.soundunited.com/our-mission

Sound United seems to have the least to say, and yet, there's the image of two women seated on a couch, and no kitchen or other trappings of domesticity, save for what we assume is a living room.

Of course if yours is a country where values are different, or you lack the advertising budget, you could try avoiding imagery of home and world at large altogether:
https://www.topping.audio/profile
Oh hey sneak peak of major new product in 11 April posting:
https://twitter.com/topping2008/

 

[Katji]

2020s USA has entered the era of the unisex public toilet:

[...]

Of course if yours is a country where values are different,

That sort of triggered me, the train of thought is just too much...
Twitter would go crazy and so it would have to be discussed, unpacked, on tv.

Sound United seems to have the least to say, and yet, there's the image of two women seated on a couch, and no kitchen or other trappings of domesticity, save for what we assume is a living room.

That's how the audiophile forum joke about [the wife heard it from the kitchen] is so funny.
And as per some of the pics posted...like this SONOS ad...

...the kitchen is in the living room.............................................but.....ok, I get it - you still need multi-room system because the speakers are so small.

 

[KellenVancouver]

Mid-20th century Zenith "tubeless" radio

 

[JeffS7444]

That sort of triggered me, the train of thought is just too much...
Twitter would go crazy and so it would have to be discussed, unpacked, on tv.

The all-gender public toilet isn't the norm yet in the USA but these things already exist, because inclusion, and not merely diversity, has become an increasingly hot topic.

 

[KellenVancouver]

1981...

 

[mhardy6647]

Posted by "Seleniumfalcon" @ the Polk forums.
Fairchild, in certain circles, is considered the manufacturer of the best turntables ever.

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Robin L]

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This one screams for a Mad Magazine parody.

 

[mhardy6647]

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Now I am wondering what an inauthentically styled console radio/phono of that era would've looked like...

This one screams for a Mad Magazine parody.

Reminds me perhaps even more more of one of the great social commentary/parodies done by Bruce McCall.
Here're a couple of examples:

 

[JeffS7444]

https://deadspin.com/my-dad-was-the-maxell-blown-away-guy-even-if-i-cant-1720940928

 

[mhardy6647]

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https://deadspin.com/my-dad-was-the-maxell-blown-away-guy-even-if-i-cant-1720940928

Iconic.





Not to be confused with Iconic.