The design of these TV/TT combo looks a bit like this 8 track General karaoke machine. They could be related maybe. At least they would make a nice set together
I'm pretty sure that's related to Fujitsu 10, they also had a small line of General Boomboxes. Pretty neat, that one looks well done with wood and metal, some of them can be pretty ugly.
And more conventional tower systems. I recall the fronts of similar systems being sold as surplus at an electronics sale. The whole front including the decks, circuit boards etc were only about 6" (15cm) deep. I think what happened was that those were made and shipped from Taiwan or another low cost manufacturing centre. They were then assembled along with a cheap record deck into chipboard cases to make a tower system. That way they could ship over five sets of electronics in the space one system would take. p.s. This thread gives an idea of what is inside such systems https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/amscrap-amstrad-home-stereo.4979/ Having said that I had to repair a friends Sony stack system and you could have hidden a tin of biscuits inside it with room to spare. It did have a bigger transformer and heatsink though.
Amstrad must have sourced the same manufacturer as Yorx, lol. Chipboard junk that tries to make up for its lack of quality with a lot of flashy LEDs and frequency response graphs.
Found on a random Chinese Website, I do like the blinged out speakers and even the tweeter grills are a nice touch.
I'm pretty sure this is old but Panda still makes portable cassette players, I wonder if it's the same company?
I found some info on Yancheng Manufacturing and the Yanwu Boomboxes.... https://www.ycnews.cn/ycyw/2019/10-31/V1QYx61E.html Check out the monster TV boomboxes! Wow, early stereo TV I would never have guessed. [Yancheng's footprints on the road to progress] "Yanwu", a nationally popular electronic industry star - "One song brings a piece of love", an unforgettable national memory This is the Yanwu tape recorder production line photographed in May 1984. Photo by Yu Wenhong On August 8, 1984, in an alley in Shanghai, neighbors brought benches and chairs and sat around a black-and-white TV, waiting to watch the broadcast of the women's volleyball final of the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games. The signal came. The song "Yanwu, Yanwu, a song brings a piece of love" came from the TV... This is the scene in the "Winning" chapter of the movie "My Motherland and Me" that was popular during this year's National Day. In the 1980s, riding the wave of reform and opening up, a star enterprise in China's electronics industry, "Yanwu", was born in Yancheng, which has a weak industrial foundation. With the popular advertising songs, "Yanwu" became popular all over the country and became the collective memory of a generation. "Yanwu" is popular all over the country In 1978, after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, China entered a new historical period of reform and opening up. State-owned enterprises entered the major reform track of obtaining independent management rights and independently regulating the market, and they were full of vitality. In 1981, Yancheng Radio Factory (the predecessor of Yanwu Group, renamed Yancheng Radio Factory in January 1985) was still a small factory that could only assemble radios. As the radio market shrank, products were in large backlogs, the company was in debt of more than 1.8 million yuan, and faced a survival crisis. This is the Yanwu tape recorder production line photographed in May 1984. Photographed by Yu Wenhong There are opportunities in crisis. Against the backdrop of the deepening of economic system reform, in 1982, the Yancheng Radio Factory analyzed market trends, formally established the development direction of tape recorders, and established a trial production team to successfully put the "Yanwu" brand tape recorder into production, which was a hit in China. "It was the coldest time of the year, and Beijing was covered with heavy snow. A long team of nearly a thousand people stood in the snow and waited on the sidewalk in front of the Dongfeng Market on Wangfujing Street." This passage describes the third exhibition of "Yanwu" brand tape recorders in Beijing before the Spring Festival in 1985, which shows the popularity of "Yanwu" in the Beijing market. Beijing, the capital, is a weather vane for the whole country. The success of "Yanwu" in the north and south of the country has to mention the "brainwashing" advertising song of that year - "Yanwu, Yanwu, a song brings a piece of love". "The TV ads of the same period were more simple, straightforward and even stiff product descriptions. There was no thought of sublimating the product as a brand image or a work of art." Yin Yi, who was once the secretary of Yancheng Radio General Factory and deputy editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "Yanwu", witnessed and participated in the whole process of the birth of the advertisement. Therefore, this advertisement that displayed the brand image in the form of song and dance quickly became popular throughout the country after it was released by CCTV, increasing the brand awareness of "Yanwu". In just a few years, "Yanwu" helped Yancheng Radio General Factory climb one step after another. In 1982, it got rid of the hat of loss, with an output value of 4.64 million yuan and a profit and tax of 330,000 yuan; in 1985, the output value exceeded 100 million yuan, and the profit and tax exceeded 10 million yuan; in 1987, the five indicators of output, output value, sales revenue, profit and tax and total labor productivity ranked first in the same industry in the country, becoming one of the nine famous tape recorder manufacturers in the country; in 1988, the output value was 400 million yuan, and the profit and tax exceeded 60 million yuan. The Yancheng City Annals records: "On October 7, 1989, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that Yancheng Radio General Factory entered the national 500 large-scale enterprise industry." This is the Yanwu tape recorder production line photographed in May 1984. Photographed by Yu Wenhong Reform and competition are the soul Why did "Yanwu" rise so quickly back then? "Reform and competition are the soul." Yin Yi remembered that the old factory director Zhu Chengxue once said, "Yanwu survives in the cracks by daring to reform and compete; it seeks development in survival by being good at reform and competition." People are the subject and object of reform. Yancheng Radio General Factory fully implemented the economic responsibility system internally and implemented a series of reforms including the distribution system, which stimulated the wisdom and potential of all factory employees. A large number of scientific and technological elites and craftsmen emerged, and the pace of new product development and research was accelerated, and the speed of product replacement was increased. From 1982 to 1987, there were more than 60 models of "Yanwu" brand L15 series tape recorders alone, and an average of more than 10 new products were launched on the market each year. Often when a product is selling well, the "upgraded version" that replaces it comes out. When other manufacturers followed suit and launched their products, the "upgraded version" of "Yanwu" took the lead again, and at the same time lowered the price of the old model, so that the follow-up products were quickly eliminated from the market. This half-beat faster rhythm seized the time difference, expanded the market space, and greatly enhanced the competitiveness of "Yanwu". A certain market launch volume is one of the prerequisites. If the volume is small, the water will not be muddy. This is the Yanwu tape recorder production line photographed in May 1984. Photo by Yu Wenhong Where does the small profit but quick turnover volume come from? In addition to increasing its own production lines, Yancheng Radio General Factory also "laid eggs in a borrowed nest", breaking the traditional closed-end business philosophy, and carried out horizontal alliances across regions and industries. In 1985, Yanwu Electric Industrial Company was established, and it jointly produced "Yanwu" brand tape recorders with 12 companies. Subsequently, on this basis, it continued to develop towards group economy, and in 1991, Yancheng Yanwu Electric Group was established. With products, technology and funds as the link, it united joint ventures, supporting and complete machine manufacturers, formed a joint-stock economic entity, and formed economies of scale. The increase in product volume made the reform of the sales and circulation system imperative and urgent. In 1987, Yanwu Electronic Sales Group, the first company in the national electronics industry integrating product development, production and distribution, was established, realizing the integration of science and technology enterprises, industry and trade, and industry and commerce, creating a new model for the production and distribution system of my country's electronics industry, expanding the market influence of Yanwu products, and consolidating its "half of the country's tape recorder market." This is the Yanwu tape recorder production line photographed in May 1984. Photographed by Yu Wenhong Reviving the "Yanwu" brand In the 1990s, new home appliance audio products such as CDs and VCDs appeared in China, and the market share of tape recorders in the home appliance market gradually shrank. At this time, "Yanwu" had solidified its corporate genes due to various reasons, and it did not keep up with the times in product development and updating. The company suffered serious losses for years and production was unsustainable. At the end of 1997, the desperate Yanwu Group finally announced a complete suspension of production; in 1998, it implemented a "big ship stranded, small boats released" restructuring plan and established 18 restructuring companies; in June 2002, Yanwu Group entered bankruptcy proceedings and officially declared bankruptcy at the end of 2004. "Yanwu" is a brave "mine-treader" on the journey of China's electronic industry reform. "Her successful experience and lessons from failure have a positive incentive and warning effect on later generations." Yin Yi said. In recent years, the municipal party committee and government have been committed to reviving the "Yanwu" brand. In September this year, Yancheng Oriental Investment and Development Group handed over the baton of reviving "Yanwu" to Jiangsu Yanwu Aviation Industry Group, which was established at the end of 2018. The group was also officially renamed Yanwu Group. Aviation is an international window for opening up the new Yancheng. In September 2018, Jiangsu Province officially established the Eastern Airport Group to integrate the airport resources in the province, bringing major strategic opportunities for the expansion and strengthening of Nanyang Airport. "The group focuses on the development of infrastructure around Nanyang Airport, the construction of the airport economic zone and the airport town, to create a new airport economic development group, and accelerate the revival of the Yanwu brand and the transformation of the enterprise into an entity." Pan Xiao, deputy general manager of Yanwu Group, introduced that the planning of the airport economic zone has been fully launched, and the basic work of the planning bidding and project establishment procedures of the airport logistics park has also been launched. "Yanwu" is not only revived in terms of brand, but also in terms of courage and wisdom to innovate and reform. "I hope that through our efforts, in the next ten or twenty years, the 'Yanwu' brand will be re-expanded and strengthened." Pan Xiao is full of confidence in the future development of the group. Postscript: Today, the special report "Walking with the Republic - Yancheng's Footprints on the Road of Progress" has come to an end. This plan aims to review the memorable symbols of Yancheng in the history of the development of the Republic. We have chosen to report only some of them. There is no end to development, and reform is still on the way. We firmly believe that more influential Yancheng footprints will be left on the journey of the new era.
Just digging into Yanwu some more https://news.sina.cn/sa/2007-12-08/detail-ikkntiam9852933.d.html "Yanwu" has used the speakers for 20 years and never throws them away The Yanwu brand tape recorder in Old Wu's home can still play music. Photo by Song Ning The Morning Post's activity of searching for the oldest home appliances has continued to attract the attention of citizens. Yesterday, a citizen, Mr. Wu, called and said that he had a Yanwu tape recorder at home. He had used it for 20 years and had never been repaired. It still sounded loud and clear. Older citizens may still remember that in the 1980s, a handsome young man holding a guitar often appeared on TV. He sang and danced, "Yanwu! Yanwu! A song brings a love!" Yesterday, at the home of Mr. Wu Kouyuan, the reporter saw again the once well-known "Yanwu" brand dual-cassette recorder. The old man said that because of the "Yanwu" advertisement, for a time, carrying a Yanwu recorder and dancing in the park became the most fashionable thing for young people. Old Wu said that although he was not young at that time, he still loved music and dancing very much. Although his family was not well-off, he still gritted his teeth and bought one for nearly 500 yuan. The recorder once helped people make wills. Wu Kouyuan told reporters that his tape recorder was very powerful at the time and could also record music. In addition to playing music, it was often used for other purposes. Not long after Lao Wu bought his tape recorder, an old man in his neighbor's house was critically ill and in danger of dying. But the old man's son was working in another city thousands of miles away. At that time, communication conditions were not as advanced as they are now. How could the old man's last words be conveyed to his son in another city? Soon, everyone thought of Lao Wu's tape recorder. As the tape slowly turned, the old man's weak words were recorded and sent to his son in another city. A month later, the old man's son couldn't help crying when he heard his father's last voice before his death. In this way, this "Yanwu" tape recorder has accompanied Lao Wu for 20 years. The Yanwu Group, which was once popular all over the country, closed down two years ago. Lao Wu said, however, his tape recorder has "tenaciously" survived to this day, and the sound is still loud. Old Wu told the reporter that he has loved music all his life. Later, when his living conditions improved, his family bought DVDs, home theaters and other equipment, and also spent tens of thousands of yuan on audio equipment. But Old Wu has a special affection for the antiques in his home, and he is reluctant to throw them away as long as they are not broken. Author: Huang Min/Source: Nanjing Morning Post
This looks like a Yanwu but I'm not 100% sure Who knows, maybe they made the Discolite? The three stickers seem to be the branding
