Mini Stereos and Cool Car Compo Ads

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    1979 ASC, I'm pretty sure they never shipped these here and have no idea of the build quality. They do have an early LED display that look great with the analog meters. Anybody have any ASC Equipment?


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    Headphone DIN plugs!
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    German Equipment had a lot of DIN!

    Quad from 1975
    (something happened to the photo, I'll try to find it)

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    It might not be a mini but it's impressive looking and rare over here. I don't think Blaupunkt made many home stereos, they were huge in car stereos over here, from 1975.


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    Hitachi Lo-D, I love the look of this. Is it just me or does it look tiny? Anybody know who the girl is?


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    Not really a mini but very impressive looking


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    I could be wrong, but I think it looks smaller than it is because it is a "tape first" mechanism rather than the usual type that has the tape at the side. I guess it is an add on unit as there is no radio, so probably made small to mount under the dash.

    No, but I did find this whilst looking. Not a car stereo in sight!
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    Honestly between beer ads and JDM Audio Brochures, the girls were everywhere! Most of the women were famous in Japan, I mentioned in another thread that JDM grandads are collecting the 80's brochures to relive their youth crushes, hopefully some of them will scan and post their brochures!
     
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    Yes, this one is from a Yahoo Japan sale! There were a few pages shown.

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    Showa 58 is 1983.
     
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    I wonder if the JDM Stereos were too colorful to sell in the USA, over here everything was painted black, the dial and LEDs gave the stereos some life but these JDM stereos are really neat.
     
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    Sharp Digiturbo, it looks like a pretty neat little stereo but I've never seen one before, anybody have one of these? It looks like it was 69,800 yen, not cheap but not too expensive.


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    Philips 1996


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    JVC 1996


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    Pioneer 1996, an odd looking unit, I think that's a subwoofer?


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    Denon 1994, big money for this system! I guess MD was only two years old but the player was not cheap.


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    It might not be mini but this slim Sony is awesome looking, even the turntable looks like a brick, anybody have any idea what this is?


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    1978, I should have look at pricing, this thing is silly money.


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    Class D amplification in 1978! :emoji_astonished:
     
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    Okay, when the copy says "The moment arrives when the phrase 'no compromise, no matter how trivial' is no longer an exaggeration at all", they aren't exaggerating! They are calling it a "Multi-channel system", although it appears to be splitting up the frequencies in a two channel system rather than having greater than 2 channel sound.

    TA-E88 - Preamplifier (top left). If you look closely you will notice that the power supply is actually totally separate from the preamp section even though they share the same front panel. It is a twin mono design.
    TA-D88 - Crossover network (middle left) with attenuation for up to 4 different channels in "low/high", "low/mid/high" and "low/mid-low/mid-high/high" configurations.
    TA-N86 - Power Amp (possibly on the right, but the N86 and N88 look the same). Class A: 18W x2. Class B: 80W x2. Mono: 200W
    TA-N9 - Mono Power Amp (the black ones at the bottom). Class A: 80W. Class B: 450W!
    TA-N88 - Power Amp. Class D: 160W x2
    TA-E86 - Preamplifier. This appears to be a lower priced preamp, also twin mono design.

    So for the povos who can only afford the pre/power amp combo, that's ¥380,000
    For the above combo, either ¥1,210,000 or ¥1,390,000 depending on which of the (silver) amps you spec! That's over $10k and you haven't even looked at the turntable yet.

    One of the TA-N9 power amps alone still sold for ¥236,410 in 2024.
     
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    I have the CD Player and Drawer loading cassette deck from this system along with a Tuner Amp with DAB (but no DAB+) reception.
    After a couple of recent videos I am wondering if I should switch to TEAC just keeping the cassette deck.

    Sinclair tried to do Hi-Fi wattage Class D in 1966. However, the Sinclair approach was always "As many compromises as you think you can get away with to keep the price down."

    The TA-N88 gets a mention in Wikipedia as being the first successful Class D amplifier.
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