The year is 1999.
I visit a flea market and pick up a pair of computer speakers for 2 Guilder (45 Euro cents). They're pretty beat up but I needed something a little better than what my G3 B&W's internal speaker was capable of. Yes, the bar was set low, so I'd take anything.
(I have the original photos in a backup somewhere and will place those when I find them)
You can see them in the photos, white boxes with a single black speaker cone. I came home, popped off the speaker covers as they were dented and rusty, connected them up, and fired up Quake 3 Arena. No digital music collection at the time so a game was to be my test. The clarity and volume these little speakers produced blew me away!!!
I enjoyed these little speakers for a few years and then upgraded to the Harman Kardon SoundSticks. These speakers were tucked in a box and never seen again, probably tossed out. I have missed them ever since.
Of course, the SoundSticks outperform these lil' things in every way imaginable but there was something about them... something that made me wish I still had them, at least as backup speakers.
I have been looking for a set ever since. But how was I going to find these? I didn't know the brand, didn't know the model number, didn't know when these things were made.... Unless I stumbled across them by pure accident, I was never going to find a set again.
Fast forward to 2020.
Myself, Bruce, and a few of the other Mac Yakkers are hanging out, shooting the breeze, and we start talking about our first/old office and desk setups. Stories are shared, photos are dug up, fun is made of how all of us bald guys used to sport big hair. Then it happens... Bruce shows a photo of his office back in the day AND THERE THEY ARE!! The speakers I have been searching for, for almost two decades at that point!
I had a full-on-freakout that luckily did not translate to text.
"Oh yeah, great little speakers, still using them today" he casually says.
I was provided with a brand name: Micronet. No model number available though.
A few hundred eBay search filters were set and the wait began.
Now a year and a half later, eBay sends me an alert, one of my search filters got a hit. I look, and there they are
I did not hesitate and today they arrived.
They need some cleaning, the knobs crackle when they are turned but they sound as amazing as I remember!
A 20 year search, is finally over
I visit a flea market and pick up a pair of computer speakers for 2 Guilder (45 Euro cents). They're pretty beat up but I needed something a little better than what my G3 B&W's internal speaker was capable of. Yes, the bar was set low, so I'd take anything.
(I have the original photos in a backup somewhere and will place those when I find them)
You can see them in the photos, white boxes with a single black speaker cone. I came home, popped off the speaker covers as they were dented and rusty, connected them up, and fired up Quake 3 Arena. No digital music collection at the time so a game was to be my test. The clarity and volume these little speakers produced blew me away!!!
I enjoyed these little speakers for a few years and then upgraded to the Harman Kardon SoundSticks. These speakers were tucked in a box and never seen again, probably tossed out. I have missed them ever since.
Of course, the SoundSticks outperform these lil' things in every way imaginable but there was something about them... something that made me wish I still had them, at least as backup speakers.
I have been looking for a set ever since. But how was I going to find these? I didn't know the brand, didn't know the model number, didn't know when these things were made.... Unless I stumbled across them by pure accident, I was never going to find a set again.
Fast forward to 2020.
Myself, Bruce, and a few of the other Mac Yakkers are hanging out, shooting the breeze, and we start talking about our first/old office and desk setups. Stories are shared, photos are dug up, fun is made of how all of us bald guys used to sport big hair. Then it happens... Bruce shows a photo of his office back in the day AND THERE THEY ARE!! The speakers I have been searching for, for almost two decades at that point!
I had a full-on-freakout that luckily did not translate to text.
"Oh yeah, great little speakers, still using them today" he casually says.
I was provided with a brand name: Micronet. No model number available though.
A few hundred eBay search filters were set and the wait began.
Now a year and a half later, eBay sends me an alert, one of my search filters got a hit. I look, and there they are
I did not hesitate and today they arrived.
They need some cleaning, the knobs crackle when they are turned but they sound as amazing as I remember!
A 20 year search, is finally over
