Found on the forum reader, thanks Retro and gagaeyes! One of these just sold on ebay, I was going to buy it but just missed the sale while waiting for another unit I had bid on.
Ya, I saw those, I kind of wanted one but my luggage space was limited so I ended up with other stuff. For other travellers to Japan when the world opens back up, go to Japan, have fun!, and buy lots of boomboxes!
Japan is my Mecca, Tamiya RC, Hi-fi gear, portable hi-fi gear, robots and games consoles. I fear I'll need a container to bring it all back in!
"For Advanced Listeners!" I think I have this CD player, the big one, mine's kind of flimsy for a Technics.
The Technics You Oz from around 1976. Just posting because this is really neat, how cool would it be as a kid to have a boom mic for singing? I bet the accessories are impossible to find. I think I have a SL-23 out in the shop, I'm reading reviews and they say this is the best belt drive Technics TT. I'm pretty sure mine is standard gray in color.
Finally found some info on the "1982" unit above, its the Technics SA-C06 from the 1980 catalog. Looking at the side view above it doesn't have speaker mounts that I can see and the speakers are a few more pages back in this catalog found over on gromit.dk. If those blocks are 16" tall, this is a big boombox!
Gimme, gimme, gimme! Wow is this thing beautiful, anybody have the pink version? Technics SL-XP3 from 1986, thanks tas66dc!
I do! oops, I do not - while fixing this pink paperweight I hated Pink so much that re-sprayed it Clear Red, with Black bottom: SL-XP3 is an exact copy of rather expensive SL-XP7 but in a cheap plastic shell. So, if you have non-working SL-XP7, these SL-XP3 (and SL-NP3) are good donor units
Sorry Reli, I have one of those, I think they were conservative with 200, maybe more like 240? I can put in my Memorex Tape and crack glass with it, yep I can't play Ella Fitzgerald without pointing it away from any glass. It drinks batteries like they were the finest gin and I only power it on a 20 amp line otherwise the fuses are popping. I wonder how rare those pink players are Jorge?
I see them often on Yahoo-Japan, I bought mine there. Unless polished (but how do you polish painted plastic!?!... so I just spray-painted with clear lacquer), they look pretty dull in real life. here is one on eBay right now, priced as if it is refurbished SL-XP7:
Big money! I have a ton of stuff on display in my office, most are silver, gray and black, if I get lucky with a color, it's usually red.
I didn't get this from a magazine and have a hard time seeing what it is. It looks like a huge boombox with an optional TT and CD player? Is the attachment the guy's holding a CD player? Anybody have any idea? I bet the PanaMedia National Show Room was an adventure back in the 80's.
This is in the 1988 Technics Brochure but it's branded Panasonic! It looks like it's the AKA of the Technics SL-XP6 as seen in the German Brochure Page to the right. They must not have had any of the Technics Version when they went to market, very odd. Some more info on this player https://www.sutafuya.net/pcdp/slxp50.html
