Gallery of Lights
The Site => General discussion => Topic started by: Form109 on November 06, 2010, 03:45:32 PM
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ok guys we all know what a shelf stereo system is right?.....a not too expensive stereo where many features are integrated into something thats pretty compact...they can be pretty regularry found at most electronic chains like Radio Shack,Best Buy,Circuit City (Defunct) and others.
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well i got a question?....what kind of display does you Stereo use?
my First Stereo Used a Blue Backlit LCD Display (Not a Color LCD But a simple Text LCD)
second and third Stereo's both used multi-colored Vaccum Fluorescent Displays.
Fourth Stereo used a Display similar to the First one (with more characters) it is Orange Backlit and very hard to read from certain angles unlike VFD
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My current stereo setup uses a VFD for the CD player, a set of incandescent front lit analog VU meters and mechanical counter for the tape deck, and a analog tuning dial with LED lights for the signal strength meter on the receiver, and the turntable doesn't have a display but it has small neon light used to adjust the speed.
My previous shelf system that I used before my current one used a text LCD display backlit with blue LEDs.
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The integrated unit I use dates from 1990, and has a non backlit LCD display, with LED's for power and other function displays. The discrete stereo I have in the cupboard uses a mix of incandescent lamps ( 6.3V minature wire ended lamps ) and LED's, and has no other displays, with a manual tuning bar on the tuner that uses a 2 colour LED as the pointer.
I am not a fan of the flashy displays at all. If I want a spectrum analyser I will use the computer and a media player to get that.
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My stereo has a large VFD display (my favorite display type, after nixie tubes). It is from the mid 90s.
I have an older stereo that has a row of leds for showing the setting on the FM tuner. When changing setting, the lit one fades out as the next one fades in. It probably hasn't got a microcontroller in it, not sure when it's from, but the tuner only goes up to 104 MHz.
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My Sharp 5CD stereo system has a multicoloured VFD. It doesn't have a spectrum analyzer/VU thing at all. It just tells you all the modes, the time/track/tuner/clock and CD/MP3 player status, etc.