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    Some more Twin Cams, some of these look pretty, pretty nice.


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    Jorge had that funky name thread but I can't find it, this would fit in nicely, the Sharp Mr. Joycasse.


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    A huge brochure for the Sharp GF-508ST, anybody have one of these?


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    1985 Brazil


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    Sharp 1986


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    I don't see a date on this, maybe early to mid 1990's?
    Now this is cool, it looks like 35 watts a channel and much smaller than it looks judging by the cassette door. This thing is so pretty it would be hard to take it outside, especially with all the kid-friendly buttons and knobs. Thanks tas66dc!


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    Sharp GF-555, I don't know what the first double decker is but I think there's a Marantz Model and that oddball from Italy that both had side mounted transports.


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    Found the whole brouchre
    Sharp 87.5

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    Sharp 1993.3
    Missing some pages, I'll try to find more, the MD player looks interesting.


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    Awesome thread Mister X, I might have a Sharp SEGNO brochure stashed away somewhere.
     
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    I'm doing some deep dives on X and some of the cool JDM sites that have recently been taken down. Some of these guys had a ton of information. I'm at the point where I'm starting to forget postings, there might be duplicates or copies of other uploads.
     
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    So I know I am late to this party, but I have one of these!
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    It still works with a bit of help closing the record door. I bought it from an old lady who had probably had it since new. Smoked like a chimney, which is why the unit is mostly brown! It actually took some time for the unit itself to not smell of cigarette smoke!

    I have bought a new belt kit for it and have been trying to find the time to repair and clean it up, although a video by Techmoan disassembling a similar device curbed my enthusiasm somewhat. It is in pretty good nick except for a dent in the door at the bottom (which as aluminium) and the speaker plugs being cut off so they could be used on a different unit, although the plugs themselves were still included.

    I think I need to get back onto this project!
     
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    I didn't have a ton of love for those when they came out in the 80's, I though they were big plastic lumps but now I frickin love them. The designers had some big hills to mount, cut down on metal, start using injection molding and throw in some cool features like linear tracking and do it on both sides of the album! While Sharp never got a ton of respect, they had some killer equipment and cool innovations like "auto-reverse" turntables, "Twin-Cam" Tape Decks, auto cassette music search. Then you look at some of the JDM Catalog Pages, Boomboxes with tiny monitors, lot's of surround speakers, etc. In the big picture, Sharp might have been one of the more innovative back then.
     
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    The cover of this brochure is honestly how I thought my life would be going by now!
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    I love these systems so much, but they always seem to have been pretty rare around here. I have definitely found the Sharp stuff a bit strange in that they seemed to concentrate so much on out of the ordinary stuff (plays both sides, drawer loading turntable) but not on more obvious "wins" (auto-reverse cassette deck). Still, the System 207 here is an awesome looking system and we had a VC-488 VCR when I was a kid and it was literally the best thing I could have ever imagined! I remember getting it repaired at one stage and the service guy calling it "the Rolls Royce of VCRs". Interestingly, I did love the whole integrated furniture thing even though I was still young, and have plans on creating something similar to this day. I think Sharp were ahead of the curve here. Plants are awesome too!

    When I was looking for my own VCR in the 90s sadly the Sharp ones had turned into plasticy looking units with a small orange:eek: display, so I ended up getting a Panasonic, which in hindsight was probably a better choice. I do still have the VC-488 (in black) somewhere and a pair of the System 207 FD speakers. Those VCRs are rare even online!

    On a side note, I think I need a better scanner, or at least better settings on this one, the colours are too washed out.
     
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    I used to dream about having enough equipment to fill every hole on the back of my audio, MD, DAT, TT, cassette, etc. I thought by the end of the 80's everyone would have systems similar to the photos but in my circle, everyone kept the video away from the stereo for some reason.
     
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    Yes, we had the Sharp hi-fi VCR and an Aiwa midi system (and a Toshiba TV, a model that is used quite often in YouTube videos now as the "screen" it is being shown on), but the stereo was at the side of the room and the TV in front. I think about how massive that room really was and often wonder how I would set it up today, although furnishing it longways would have made the probably 48cm TV pretty difficult to watch back then! It did mean that I was able to listen through headphones and record songs off Take 40 Australia whilst Mum and Dad were still watching the TV though.

    I definitely shouldn't complain about what I have now, but somehow it is just doesn't have the same impact. I will say that I have overfilled the holes in my receiver to a point where I am sometimes using one input for two items (analogue and digital). Who ever thought that having MD/Tape was a good idea? Receivers today don't have anywhere near enough analogue inputs, and no digital outputs!

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    It looks like the tape deck was out for repairs!
     
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