Don't know these models, but seems late 1960s early 1970s. This "flat" cassettecorder format - not a shoebox, but neither it is a top-loader deck - dominated in the U of SSR until late 1980s. I can see where the style of some Soviet models comes from. This photo is interesting because it has all the variations: tape on the right and tape on the left. Silver aluminum, or white, or black with coarse mesh grille, or faux woodgrain with parallel ridges. Then again, other brands had similar designs, like Grundig and Philips had that brown parallel ridge grill.
Check out the boombox, or is it? It doesn't look it has a radio but maybe that's a dial on the top? I wonder what model that is, I don't think I've seen it before, it looks like two VU's on the diagonal face?
Maybe no radio. For a long time manufacturers thought people would use tape recorders to take "Sound Photographs". While looking for it I found this https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-a.html which mentions a fad of recording steam locomotives in 1973. You don't need a radio for that. I recall LPs being issued of the same thing. At the time the idea of heritage railways was still in its infancy.
JVC building CD players with radio? What are these, portables, boomboxes? The Business Times 24 January 1989
Spotted in a local second hand shop this makes a change from the black eggs from the same era. Probably the same internals as a Panasonic Cobra, but while those were aimed at "yoof" I guess this was aimed at housewives and pensioners. If it had a true Aux in I would be tempted at the £35 asking price,
That's a nice looking player, I bet it sounds pretty good and would make a good desk or kitchen player. Does it have a battery compartment?
To answer your question from six weeks ago yes it has a battery compartment. Last week the one I showed was still sat there in the shop.
Away from all the high end GF777s and M90s these were what a teenager could realistically expect to get for Christmas in 1985. In places like Woolworths the Sharp GF4343 was the top of their range. There are even a couple of TVs for @Mister X A couple of years after this I impressed a couple of friends I was visiting by fixing one of those Fergusson TVs with minimal tools and no test equipment. The problem was simply tarnished pins on the back of the tube.
easily the best thing in there is the commadore 64.....i feel you're pain longman your parents must have never bought you anything good lad
When this catalogue came out I was months away from buying my own house. I won't complain about the cassette recorder or calculator I got as presents in the mid 1970s. Things were big money back then. £111 in todays money for a mono cassette recorder according to the BOE inflation calculator.
i had an astro wars when ever that came out my friend which cost 30 but i am quite realistic lad even back then 30 was nothing and i was more than happy saying my parents bought most well im not sure about that my dc33l was 250 and i had to work for my brother for 6 weeks to get that i guess i knew a couple of good people with technics panasonic gear and most was bought without any paper work for 10 a week my biggest buy was my technics stack for about 1300 in the early 90s which i think cost 10 a week for about 15 months on yts the crazy thing is bro im on ok disabled money now but the bank wouldn't give me 1 pound credit like anybody else lol other things they bought me my spectrum48 and commadore 64 so they did buy alot for me i guess also i remember my mum bought me those big jammo gf 25 so yea i was so lucky to have them
I think that for a long time my biggest audio purchase was my CD collection. Throughout the 90s I was buying a couple a month at about £12 each. I used to think it was cunning that in Sainsburys they only had the empty CD cases on display and you had to collect the CD from the tobacco counter. Stood in the queue you might be thinking "do I really need to spend £12 on this CD" only to see the person in front spend £25 on tobacco which will go up in smoke. vs
hell brother my biggest expenditure is tobacco about 150 a fortnight pure madness lad trouble with cds lad i live in such appalling conditions they dont last much more than aweek...........eg i have had no water for the last week never mind heat lol
I hope they sort that out for you soon. It is similar in parts of Hampshire, while the USA sounds to be far worse than anything we have had recently.
That Commodore would have been really cool a few years earlier, it looks like a nice package but by 85 that would have been really outdated and probably went in the clearance rack after Christmas. I follow weather for my work, we have cold temperatures but this is normal this time of year, they make is sound like it's never happened before. I'm out enjoying it, if the wind would die down I'd have a giant bonfire while flooding the ice rink. I've been out the last three weeks until the early morning hours working on it, I usually have to go in when the cold and wet penetrate my boots and gloves.
