What is the difference between all the AIWA Compo Boxes?

Another AIWA Mini Stereo, the M-606 from 1981

 

Very nice Goncalo Dumas, that cleaned up really nicely. Please post the Sencor when you have a chance, I feel like I found an ad for it somewhere in one of these threads.

Here's a new ad from Australia 1981, the M301, that turntable looks beautiful; too bad they didn't have something like the Sony Saw Blade TT with the mini footprint.

 

Very nice! Do you guys have stations on both AM and FM?

 

Here's an interesting posting for defective CD players from AIWA, these were after the compo boxes but they might share similar components.

Here's a copy of the archived website mentioned at the end of the article
https://web.archive.org/web/20030318223946/https://www.minisystemsettlement.com/

 

Here's the model numbers....It's amazing how many systems they were cranking out.

 

Here's a neat ad, pricing is Singapore Dollars from 1979. This shows two different racking options but it also has the two different amps, one has the pre-amp and one has the integrated. Back when I first started this thread I didn't know there was two amp options but luckily I've found both versions. Of course the stand-alone amp is awesome looking and a great addition to the stack. It does make you wonder what's inside the non-integrated amp since they look identical.

 

The Straits Times, 27 May 1979

 

Wegavision, from HiFi-Archive has been uploading a ton of his brochures to archive.org, here's the BASF HiFi-Mini Komponenten. It looks like they didn't have any options and the brochure is as plain as the units.

 

My desk/computer system is R22 Tuner, S-C22 Preamp and an S-P22 hooked to Klipsch Heresys, I've got a thirty-something inch monitor between the speakers and it's a really wonderful sounding system. I hate working on a phone and a don't really like laptops. There's a time and place for all of this audio stuff, luckily I'm very enviroment sensitive. I've got a mono boombox in the rest-room and several others around the rooms in the house, an early 90's Technics multi-channel on the TV, but I rarely use it, and a few 70's mega-builds that don't get nearly enough use.

The weakest link in these mini-systems is the speakers that came with the systems; the little guys just don't have a full range of sonics, especially at higher volume. Throw in some larger speakers and most of these systems will really shine but you also have the option of keeping it small. A lot of these were very robust builds and they were not cheap, some were much more than the local electronics store packaged-deal full size similar equipment.

One of the reasons I like these is that they were rare, I never saw one as a kid. All of my brother's friends had the big stuff, mostly Pioneer Recievers, Technic's TT's, etc. It's the same with portables, we had a ton in my little town but they were the nice basic models, usually in silver or black, none of the cool colors we now know exist.

 

The Straits Times, 27 May 1979

 

55 members on line now, wow, I think that's a record! Anyway I found this ad for sale on Ebay, pretty cool, check out his other ads, there's some interesting stuff.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165382743551