The Italians were major manufacturers of electronic musical instruments, to the point that some Roland keyboards were made there. Apart from the tape deck all the technology required for a boombox is similar.
Yeah I have afew if there products now after buying this bulk collection which included these and the boombox Europhon RCK2320 (mid 1980s) Philips FC141 Cassette deck and FA144 Amplifier (1985) think I’ll be keeping this one lol BSR ST1600 (late 70s) Made in UK Philips MIDI F1462 (1985) I’m not really a hifi person so will proberly sell these on but keep the silver Philips but do already have some 80s JVC separates which I keep meaning to update but they havent let me down (did blow up one amp lol), but as I said these came with the boombox
I didn't realise that BSR made complete systems. In the 1970s they were one of the largest turntable mechanism manufacturers in the world with their decks even being fitted in American equipment.
the operating manual is in 6 different languages so must have been popular once but little in the net about this specific system, sadly doesn’t have original speakers
another added to the collection found for €10, Panasonic RX-DT680 soft touch stereo, i believe its from 1991
A bit too upmarket for Argos. They did have the similar RX-CT980 with mechanical decks for a mere £169. Rather surprisingly several of the CD Radio Cassettes are actually cheaper. Does yours have a handle ?
The good thing about that panasonic range, they were all the same spec, just some had logic decks and cd like the dt680
Yes it’s abit posher than the argos version, both tape decks on this one have auto reverse, soft touch control, 4 channel amp, quiet impressed by its power and its quiet weighty, it does also have the CD and still has its handle but the aerial I broken which I’d class as an easy fix
The Argos version doesn't have a CD player either. I reckon your box would have been around £300 new.
i bought a 680 new longman, it was indeed £350 new which may have been on the expensive side the same model without the cd was £200, i had one of those also,, a model with piano keys but single deck was £100, a friend had one of those...the important thing they all sounded the same and same output so you had a real good deal with the cheaper ones
Mental money people spent on these things, mind my first (cobra Panasonic) was afew hundred plus back in the day, Another for the collection presumed 70s Mitsouki ST-730 oh and some singles
Then got this one for the boombox collection too JVC PC-W310J from 1986 with removable personal CD Player oh and some more singles
Very occasionally I find similar record collections in charity shops and think "I'd like to have known this person when I was younger". I have quite a few with the original owners name written on each cover, and some in hand-drawn covers. I guess the originals got lost or were the boring stock plain paper sleeves. As we were discussing elsewhere what memories will the streaming generation have ?
So today whilst on holiday i found and added to my collection.. Sharp GF666 and Yorx FP1010 Triple Deck (complete with box)
none apart from broken mp3 players, managed to score myself an audiophonics dj deck, so now have got something decent to play my vinyl on rather than the cheap philips midi system ive been using for months
The Sharp GF666 looks to be almost identical to the GF555. They did a number of boxes all in the same chassis with just minor variations. The tuner in that Yorx must be one of the strangest combinations ever with just LW and FM. I guess that was aimed at the French market. Knowing their love of legislation I wonder if there was some rule that all radios must have LW so they put that on instead of MW/AM and fitted that instead. Actually that still doesn't make much sense because a French market product would be P.O. and G.O.
doing some reseach from a facebook post further searching shows my Yorx is also exactly the same as the JC Penney Newave AM-FM Radio, Model 3006, 1987, Made in Korea so presume AM-FM its on the side, if you mean the trim its on top of the unit
Yoko SCR 168L presumed early 90s, never heard of the Chinese brand but seem quiet popular at one stage even building 3D surround boomboxes, i saw this and though it would go with my triple
