Hello! I've finally gotten my own place, with enough room for a home setup. I don't have any components yet, but I would like to get a cassette deck, a CD deck, and a good receiver. I really want it to be the same brand and to match, be black, and most of all I want it to have orange light in the display. I've looked and I find it hard to find a good matching setup. Examples of cassette decks I've checked out: Yamaha KX R730, Teac R540, JVC TD R421. The receiver could be a newer model, with Bluetooth, or I don't really know what is possible, as long as it has an orange display. So I wonder, does anyone have any suggestions for a nice setup with components meeting my criteria? Or any good advice? I was thinking maybe paying around 200$ for the different components. I'm thinking about getting a record player as well, but I could get a nice wooden Dual record player or something, but if you have any suggestions for a record player that fits my criteria, I'm open to hear about it Thanks in advance
I have mostly vintage equipment and I think Yamaha is the only one with reddish-orange lights but my stuff is from they 70's and 80's. I've been collecting for close to 20 years and have a little bit of everything. At your price point you'll have to do some deep diving and look everywhere, most nice mid-range components go for over $100/each over here and the reciever will be double that. Wanting that special color is really going to limit what's available unless you wire in your own LEDs
Pioneer Elite/Reference gear looks gorgeous (I'm biased) and *usually* has orange displays (all of mine does) *but* I have seen the hero CT93 Cassette Deck on these very pages showing bluey-green. Bluey-green is the "native" colour of the fluoro display. The boring truth is, if it's showing orange, there's a plastic orange filter behind the front window; a green display just means no filter.
