Amstrad

I think I’ve come across this brand of boomboxes once or twice before. (Always online.) I only fully realized that the Amstrad 8090 is a dual-cassette-deck model with top-located controls for the upper (non-recording) deck when I started to watch the February 2018 video by FunMaster of such a unit. (Finished watching the video around 11:38PM, I think.) Uh, the Amstrad 8090 wasn’t actually made in Bulgaria, was it? (FunMaster simply states about the video: “boombox from Bulgaria, Sofia,” notably stating the European nation before its capital city.) Isn’t this stereo the Asian-made, European-market AKA of some brand perhaps better known outside Europe? (Its radio tuner does have a longwave band in lieu of a shortwave band that I would prefer – outside Europe, at any rate.)

Well, anyway, this photo’ by Alan1725 features this fair-sized model in two states: with and without the detachable speakers. The left-hand ‘8090 atop the “full assembly” unit must have been shifted aside to show the bottom-located machine’s top-mounted cassette keys, same as those of the units it’s carrying. (Or to spare the tape-deck keys a squashing, one shrugs.) And, according to a certain Artur Gutner (commenting on the video watched tonight), the “upper deck is detachable and can be [used] as a [Walkman].” Not usually my speed of boombox design, but it does show some versatility.

Thanks for sharing the image, Alan. And, as others must be telling you: welcome to Stereo2Go.