As people have already commented look locally. I have bought several boomboxes and personal stereos for under £15 at what we call Car boot sales....
Seems to be working for me https://www.vintagecassette.com/ Not the site I was thinking of though.
To mark what may be the end of AV from Phlips I thought I would do a list of some of their innovations: First Glass based valves (crucial to the...
That has annoyed me too. However, I think you will find that Vauxhall had some input into the design process. After all they kept the Astra name...
Thanks for that. It is a lot earlier than I expected. I wonder how many of the companies doing the research ever made a return on their...
I think almost all the manufacturers were caught out by how quickly the price of Flat Screen TVs fell. By flat screen I mean the ones less than...
This morning after reading the Superscope thread I did a bit of Googling and found a What Hi Fi article about them and Marantz....
APLD = Automatic Program Locate Device APPS = Auto programme search system back in the days when computers ran programs rather than "Apps"...
Somehow, I doubt if the major Manufacturers like Sony ever stopped making Radio Cassette Recorders, in the same way that they have never stopped...
Thanks to Michelle’s amazing work on the old database and Google here is the original thread....
Just don’t plug it into U.K. mains without a step down transformer.
Ever heard of William Edwards Demming ? He was an American whose theories on quality control were adopted by the Japanese years before any other...
Some good news about that: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43458695 Also the original intention was to move the main stations off...
A (very) poor mans version of the Sharp GF555
What would concern me about longer playing times would be sound quality. K-Tel used to do compilation albums with at least 8 tracks on each side....
We discussed tobacco branded walkmans before http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/giveaway-question.2065/ You can see pictures of the JPS F1 cars...
I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a “new format” which automtically implies new reproduction equipment is needed. An improved method of mastering...
Thanks for the explanation and photos Ryan, In about 1987 I bought a boxed refurbished "BT Pheonix Phone" Push button trimphone. After using it...
Does anyone else think that the PCB in that unit is a work of art ? Having been involed in PCB designs for the last 39 years, and using Computer...
Similar to the USA The Sony in my Avatar is tuning 87.5 to 108MHz. However, the band was extended upwards so you ocassionally find old radios...
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