Show me the love! Infinity Intimate Stereo!

I'd probably ask more than $799.00 for this beautiful system. I do have one, I think I have the case as well but this seems to have everything. I wonder if the small pouch is for the radio cassette.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/INFINITY-I...654786?hash=item4672ad0e82:g:xr4AAOSwiHpaOe7W

 

I always thought it was ironic that some of these big guys like Infinity would put their stamp on these clunky walkmans that seemed outdated by a few years when they came out, although I think the Infinity was the first unit to market with Dolby.

 

Here's a nice website dedicated to Infinity
http://bobbyshred.baberuthband.co.uk/infinity.html

 

Argh those speakers tho, mmmmmm

 

Wow, I 've never seen its box.
I have one in mint condition and restored but don't have the headphones and the box. I think this one could be sold for 500-600 euros for sure. It's a museum piece...

 

I just got an email, the price is reduced to $495.00 USD!
Here's the headphones, I have to believe they are even more rare.


I love that the radio cartridge has it's own "cassette case." This is a different old listing so I don't know if this is included with the above sale.

 

I was digging into Infinity and KLH a little more, it seems like they made a deal with Kyoto Ceramics (Kyocera) who also bought Trident and Cybernet around the same time. The reason why we have a few differently branded models that all look the same. It looks like this was around 1981-1982 but I don't think any of the brands really did a lot in sales. Trident may be the boombox brand but I don't know.

 

I found mine at the thrift store a long time ago when there was very little information about them. I do think they made it very attractive with brown and gold (and there's another version that was just posted) and it's a monster, maybe my largest portable. These are the units that are more fun to find in the wild then pay silly money for plus these were advertised in the back of magazines as close-outs, I have to believe there's storage units with lots of NOS somewhere out there.

 

I consider "portables" to be portable cassette players, and boomboxes to be portable radio cassettes. About 1/2 of my collection is mickey-mouse but I still love them. I feel the real mickey mouse stuff came out in the 90's, cheap builds with horrible design cues. Even these early copy-cat models are very robust builds and will outlast anything made 10-20 years later.

 

I should have said my mickey mouse stuff is the 70s-80s Hong Kong/Taiwan stuff, not the 90's junk.

I count my blessings everyday, I have a ton of vintage audio, 20 years ago, people were lucky to get $5 for it, now it's worth a fortune. My friends used to laugh at my stuff, thought I was crazy for hanging on to old tech.

Nice pickup on the Crown, those seem to be the gold-standard these days and go for big money. They are much more rare over here and don't come up for sale often.