Ok that's kind of wild, never heard of AREA before. We used to have a few cool basement clubs in downtown Minneapolis and I remember sipping Cokes and hearing similar music, unfortunately those places are long gone along with 80% of our live music scene (before C19).
ok, i‘m in my „headphone-convenient-corner“ today, with a nice bottle of dry spanish redwine, havin‘ my electronic evening, right now playing: COBBLESTONE JAZZ - 23 SECONDS
I have been wanting to take this photo since you started this thread Yes the record is on the turntable and playing The turntable is Panasonic's jacket size SL-N5 @Michelle Knight should like this as they were often sold as a package with Panasonic Boomboxes like her RX-C45. http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/got-my-new-panasonic-sl-n5-today.422/ Someone got one with a neat little factory made stand. http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/panasonic-rx-c52l-extras.414/ The turntable has a switchable preamp so can be used with any equipment with a line in. With a T4P cartridge and Panasonic Japanese made quality it is a step up from Crosleys etc and sounds nice. The LP is dated 1971 so well before the turntable. I guess the young lady on the cover is in her seventies now. Music for Pleasure was EMI budget brand, often sold in Supermarkets and Newsagents for £1 an LP. Our local Gateway supermarket used to have one of those revolving wire stands with I would guess 100 LPs in it. If you wanted a chart album or single you would have to go into town to visit a record shop. Seeing this thread inspired me to get this out today. The only problems are I now need to buy a record cleaning pad, and I reckon the little Gale AR10 speakers I was using with the SL-N5 and the matching SG-14L casseiver sound better than the system in the lounge. I will have to try a swap to tell if it is the JVC system in here or the speakers that seem to be missing midrange.
That stand and turntable are pretty cool, indeed. Also the "sensors" for the record size. Can't tell what they do really, as the cue and speed appear to be manual. Great that they incorporated a switchable pre-amp in there. I might try and hunt down one of these provided I get the boom box working first
Cue just lifts the arm up and down. The turntable is automatic in that when you press start on the far right it starts the turntable raises the arm. moves it and then places it at the start of the record whether that is 7" or 12". Auto return at the end as well. With the arm at the back of the turntable in line with the hinge to save space, manual cueing would be quite awkward although still possible. Panasonic / Technics did quite a few turntables this size but all the more expensive ones were Linear Tracking and don't have the pre-amp. I do wonder where turntable design would have got to if CD hadn't caught on. Maybe something similar but 2cm thick. Nice blue Thunderbirds LP. I guess it is Jerry Anderson rather than Fuzzbox. I have seen the entire set up I was using in red, although that was on ebay.de so I don't know if they were sold in the U.K.
I saw one on fleabay for about £40 including postage, with a snapped hinge, but although I was drooling I have to curb my enthusiasm, lest the bank manager want to request my presence on a zoom call.... The Thunderbirds LP was released last year for collectors. Naturally, coloured vinyl doesn't give the best reproduction, but hey.
If you keep looking you should find something better. I think I paid less than that including the Casseiver. The only fault with the turntable was needing a new belt. The Casseiver took longer to fix but the fault was mechanical with the drawer loading cassette jammed in the out position.
the photo did not come out very well but I think you understand ... the disc is not the original of many years ago but a recently reissue Bob Marley & the Wailers .... Uprising
