Your post reminded me of the old Sprint commercials (for land-line)...To illustrate how clear their signal was, they showed a pin dropping.
How far we’ve “progressed” since then.
The sad thing is that generations of kids are growing up thinking that music is supposed to be corrupted with digital artifacts, and sound like the speaker is under water. Give them a wide-band analog signal, and it doesn’t sound right to them.
To illustrate how clear their signal was, they showed a pin dropping.
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I remember that ad.
Shot in a bowling alley wasn’t it?
I got my ‘start’ setting pins in a bowling alley.
Complete with treadle and pegs to set the pins on.
The ONLY automaton was the pin setters, usually one to a double lane with a hole between so you could easily ‘service’ both lanes.