Has anyone ever wondered what people did with sound and images before YouTube and Spotify? Everyone was impatient with the ups and downs of radio waves, seeking a more selective and careful enjoyment, and then CDs, DVDs, and speakers were born.
In fact, CDs and DVDs have passed their heyday, but people still wander to find the longevity of sound and image perception. Basically, it is a lifestyle, a look and thousands of seamless emotions, creating a stylish, innovative hobby, with careful research and investment.
CDs and DVDs have passed their heyday, but people still wander to find the eternal memories of sound and image perception.
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“The hobby also requires a lot of effort” - Audio and visual now come with the convenience and speed of modern integrated devices, pre-programmed applications that automatically play with a default adjustment, instead of the old groping of buttons and knobs.
Victory - a store with a name that evokes a bygone era, the heyday of tapes and bulky old speakers, located at 110 Yen Hoa, Tay Ho, Hanoi
But in fact, turning the physical knobs on the speakers is also a way to knead the sound perception, and that interesting thing is only clearly conveyed through the ancient hobby of playing with sound. This hobby is now rummaged all over the city, but at most it is just a hidden place in small alleys, leaving room for the chaos on the street, only asking for peaceful spaces for the sound to move.
Victory - a store with a name that evokes a bygone era, the heyday of tapes and bulky old speakers, located at 110 Yen Hoa, Tay Ho, Hanoi. It is truly a luxury. If you want it, you can't just buy it with money, because buying it without research and understanding is like playing a lute to a buffalo. Therefore, it is a luxury from the material of the player to the character of the player. Because collecting quality items takes time and effort to find, then you need a suitable budget to buy items that are pleasing to the eye and ear.
Listening to the shop owner - an artist exclaim, that those who hunt for ancient sounds, are also called "sound hunters". Hunting also comes with desire and hard work, not easily available like the downloads on today's platforms.
The small store, with shelves arranged at right angles, is full of tapes and discs from ancient times to the present, satisfying all tastes from nostalgic to modern.
There are few shops like this in Hanoi now, and the owners used to be hunters, so they don't try to innovate the style of the shop to flatter the taste, because they don't basically hunt for the trendy things of the times, but they have now become the ones to preserve and promote them. The owners still keep the way the signboard is pasted, the words, or the style of the small coffee shop in front of the door, for young people, it's like a coffee shop of their parents, and for those who used to be young, it's like a place to return. Keeping the old style is not an inherent thing, but because there are things that are inherently like that, innovate, otherwise it will stray into a half-hearted hybrid, which is really not important.
Producers and young singers also release albums in CD - DVD format.
The small store, with shelves arranged at right angles to each other, is full of tapes and discs from the past to the present, satisfying all tastes from nostalgia to modernity. Previously, there were only tapes and discs from overseas, or singers of the previous generation, but now, producers and young singers also release albums in CD - DVD format. Know why? Because tapes and discs are archives while mp3 or mp4 are formats that cannot be restored. Surely, new singers also use this method, so that their recordings will last for generations to come.
When voice is the shape of personality
CDs and DVDs are also stories or a time to grow up, because music, each time and each session creates a ton of different emotions, surprise, when they are still intact, or even when they have changed a little. People listen to tapes and discs and talk less, but focus on each high and low bass sound of the dedicated speakers, making the hearing focus on the music rather than wandering into the stories of people. People listen to tapes and discs, change their mouth shape to the harmony of their ears, so that when their ears catch a suitable part, both heads nod in agreement. Sometimes no one speaks, because at that time, their souls are whispering to each other.
CD - DVD is also good stories and a time to grow up
Although it is strange and elaborate, this is a game that attracts many audiophiles. Playing audio brings together all kinds of people, from young students still in school to retired elders. From intellectuals to businessmen, all share the same love for music.
When meeting, the story of audiophiles of course does not revolve around this school of music, that playing style, this speaker or that device. Each person has their own preferences, musical taste and way of enjoying music. Some people like to listen to calm classical music, some are passionate about vibrant rock melodies and some like to assemble a perfect sound system by themselves.
The store sets aside a space for old people to return to their old places, and for new people to come and learn.
The store has a space for the old to find their way back to the old, and for the new to hang out and learn. The guys say that this music space gives them a better working mindset and excitement than the chaos of young music brands. Young people believe that their souls are richer with classical jazz sounds on tapes and discs. Sound does not discriminate, does not define, sound is the core of the soul, it molds the shape of personality.
Sound is the core of the soul, it molds the shape of personality.
The more you listen, the more addicted you are, the more you play, the more intoxicated you are. The most interesting thing is to enjoy a cup of coffee listening to music, watching the tape reels rotate and the electronic needle move to the music... People who love old sounds not only have a nostalgic soul, longing for the past, but more importantly, they "live slowly" with each piece of music, each golden song through the radio which is considered old-fashioned...
