Mini Stereos and Cool Car Compo Ads

Technics Concise 4 from 1982

 

AIWA M-501 from 1980

 

Hitachi M2 from 1980

 

AKAI UC Micro Stereo System from 1980

 

Hitachi M2 from 1980

 

AIWA V-700 from 1983. It's bigger than a micro stereo but still pretty neat.

 

Another Midi, the Sansui System M77 from 1983, while really nice looking my experience is a lot of these were light-weight plastic fantastic.

 

Here's a new one for me, the Hitachi J-2 Mini Stereo from 1981.

 

Another Cool Technics Concise Component Series from 1980

 

I'm cheating because this unit is so cool looking! Almost straight out of 2001 a Space Odyssey. The TEAC Soundscape ACE from 1981

 

Pioneer Personna from 1981, more midi but check out the MX-80 Cassette, Reciever, TT.

 

Technics 315 Series from 1982

 

Sansui was mostly exporting crappy plastic stereos in 1984, while it looks cool the Sansui M900B might be part of that group. It's too bad, check out how neat the turntable with keyboard look.

 

AIWA V-1200A from 1985 with a 5-cassette tape deck!

 

I grazed by that, I don't think I have any speakers like that but it's probably similar to a drum mic, I'll ask my music buddy tonight. I'll post the other mini system ads, they had a handful but I thought they were getting away from the subject since they weren't portable or small.

 

Check out this beautiful Pioneer CS-X2 from 1979

 

I think this is a new one, they all kind of look alike but it's one of my favorites because it's the system sitting on my desk right now and cranking some radio!
The AIWA 22 Mini Component System from 1979

 

I always called it the "Lo-D," and Hitachi named a lot of their equipment the same. The M1 and M2 are pretty close in design and available if you look around. If you're lucky you also score the super-rare flight case it fits into making it a true compo boombox.

This is a heavy well built stereo that can crank it up, even on the small speakers; it's slightly larger than the AIWA 22 Footprint.

The Hitachi J2 is a new one for me, I've never seen it before, of course now a million will show up for sale. The cool white dial faces remind me of late 70's Technics Recievers that did the same thing.