Cool stuff for sale mega-thread.

They did produce the 2004 with a car type deck

https://www.google.com/search?clien...56j0j46j0i10.KMpozsmAGoE#imgrc=dIlZCynuC0cOKM:

I don't know if there was a Prinzsound equivalent. With a couple of hundred shops anything sold by Dixons will be fairly common, although my Ebay searches usually bring up about 30 pairs of 1970s headphones.

I see mini systems all time. The going rate seems to be £35. My 85 year old neighbour has a neat little Panasonic system. Maybe its an age thing as the 65 year olds on the other side have a phone and a Bluetooth speaker. There again quite recently I was in Currys (owned by Dixons) and a bloke in his sixties in front of me bought a new Sony mini system for about £90. Maybe it was for his mother.

P.s. I just looked at their "Tradional HiFi (presumably for traditionalists) and noticed that none have a cassette deck

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tradi...971_xx_ba00013487-bv00313063/xx-criteria.html

I'm sure that a year ago there were still a couple like the Sony he bought.

 

I suppose the 2001 is so well known as it was the first in the series.
I think that in the late 1960s designers must have spent too much time looking at things like Sputnik as in the space of about a year we got

• the Weltron unit
• The JVC videosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videosphere
• and in the UK an entire range of Kercolor TVs https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/keracolor/

From the Keraclor brochure is appears clothes were going out of fashion at the same time

Of course there were space age units shortly before that



Definitely all products of their time. In the future an iPhone will look pretty boring in a Museum Cabinet.

 

I have just purchased one of these wired remote controls for my AIWA tape deck. They appear to be new old stock. Should work with old AIWA tape decks F660, F770 etc.

There are three more available at time of writing.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/264418333559

 

Kercolor must have wanted to keep things to a bare minimum in their brochure!

 

I would guess this would be using transistors in 1960. However, back then, getting them to work at VHF frequencies (about 60 times higher than MW) would have been real High Tech stuff. Doing a quick search the first Bush transistor radio with VHF was 1961. No such problem with Valves/Tubes which had had to work at those frequencies from the beginnings of TV, but used lots of power doing so. Not a problem in a mains powered Radiogram but much more of a problem if you are trying to make a battery powered set.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/INFLATABLE...394979?hash=item364ba5dc23:g:7JQAAOSwulFchqfz

 

If you could get it going, a JVC perfect for playing Eiffel 69 tapes



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JVC-PC-5...151453?hash=item4b656c6b9d:g:2qUAAOSwoy9c9EZ6

It makes a change from red.

 

For anyone feeling flush, there is a Carryin' Compo on eBay at the moment for £550, item number 202702835354

 

Rare Sony FH-909 for sale on Ebay. I have put the listing number below. There is a reserve on it so no idea what that has been set at. It comes without the handle and the seller has written a description of some issues with it but it's at £21 at the moment so should be worth keeping an eye on.

This isn't my listing or one of my FH-909's. I won't be bidding on this as I have two working and a third nearly working one already!

323883677821

 

A picture for the posterity


That is an interesting cassette deck mechanism, although I don't understand the purpose apart from looking cool. The CD deck Sony ZS-D55 in my Avatar operates in similar way but that is so they could fit a CD into a unit less than 5" deep.

 

I'm watching that on my eBay list, who knows if I manage to grab a bargain (I doubt it though!)

 

Techmoan definitely did a video on this, I remember laughing very hard. You just wear it like a scarf round your neck, but it’s only useful if not doing anything. In which case you’ll use headphones, a radio or normal speakers