Posted on September 27, 2008 - by rdilipk1

The Companionship of the Music Box

As I spent my summer vacation this time in my native home, I was digging through the many wealth in the store room of the house to find things that were of my interest. I suddenly stumbled upon a huge box of the size of about 2 feet. As I cleaned the dust of it, I discovered that it was a radio. I couldn’t have left it there because the memories attached with that radio was much more that with anything else that I could find.

I was nostalgic for a few minutes as I embraced my newly found treasure. I went back about 25 years back in time and found that radio sitting pretty on a dedicated table of its entertaining a group of people sitting around it.

The radio has come a long way since then. About a couple of years back, it had almost died. The new age entertainers like the ipod, the DTH and the mp3 players had almost killed the poor radio. When we all thought that the radio is down and out it bounced back with its FM channels and the satellite radios. It feel good today when you see the car-owner idling just next to you at the traffic intersection listening to the news on his local radio stations.

Radio has now taken a new shape. With quite a few upgrades like the HDradio, available the level of entertainment has also changed.

A few days back I was surprised when I got to know that Polk iSonic ES2 could hook up my ipod to it, with its dock connectors. What’s more, my excitement went off the roof when I found that the iPod Tagging feature in this could help me tag a favorite song of mine so that I could but it later. There were so many instances in the past when I wanted to save that favorite song of mine being played in the radio and I would be running around to get a pen and a paper to jot it down, only to be searching for it after a few weeks. Radio knew it had to compete with the ipods and mp3 players. So it went into the hiding for a few days and came back all dressed up to kill its competition.