Here's a pair of 9191s. Ones my "barn find" 9191e that Si restored for me in June.

The other's a bit of a beater going to Si for a deck transplant with the minter and he's going to mod it.

The beater has two short wave bands, fine tuning and a line out.  My 'E' has long wave, no fine tuner and a DIN socket.

http://youtu.be/t14Z4jcC8zI

For a vid of them playing oldskool hardcore.

Love these machines

love a bit of oldskool hardcore! sounds like a track carl cox played a lot around 92ish?

It's by dance conspiracy, called dub war chapter 1.  Yeah a very big tune 1992ish, very "white gloves".

A really good oldskool mix cd I used to play with this on was disc 2 of Dreamscape ESP.

http://www.discogs.com/Various...ption/release/402853 

Its sat in the house somewhere.  Might start giving you flashbacks

yep I agree...I just love the styling of it, not even sure why, I just do

haha! I need some flash forwards! I'm stuck in a Techno Timewarp

Never seen one in real, but agree they look lovely! Are these bigger in size compared to a 9090?

Yeh they're bigger...bit taller and a bit wider...both nice boxes

Thanks, now I need a 9191 too haha. I always had the impression they were just the same boxes with different front and look.  

The 9090 doesn't sound really special. But it's a nice mini indeed. Also like the looks of the 9292, but they are little hard to get... Let's start with a 9191, don't have that many sharps yet 

every collection should have a 9191

one of my first

and I wished I bought more when they were 30 quid boxes

The 9090 doesn't sound bad, but it's not like whoooieee that's a fat sound!!  All my sharps are a little like that. They look good, but the sound is kind of average. But will keep my eyes open for a 9191 or 9292 for sure. Sadly even locally they go expensive if one pops up.  

Go on Si a shot of all 3

Has to be done, it's like a family reunion

Ps what is the model number of the beater?

So it's a 9191E, a 9191H and a 9191XE.

Any difference between the E and the H?

I don't get why the E has no fine tuning, when it has only 1SW band.  You would've thought fine tuning was more needed if the band was more cramped?

I'm wondering if the on/off switch on the back may have been for some obscure regulation somewhere??  Was E a UK or Europe-only model?

"E" is version for UK market, it operates only from 240v, and has the mains switch on the back, because of the british electricity standards, unlike other countries - you guys have to use fused AC plug.  

Also, the manual is only in english language - so it's only for the UK market.

"H" is version for other european countries. It's multivoltage - 110,220,240v, and the manual in other europen languages.

Both of them, "E" and "H", have tuner with LW frequency, cause LW broadcasting was very common mostly in Europe. This is why the world version "X", for other countries, has no LW frequency.

It would be easier to move the cassette unit, as it's the same and only held in by screws.  The board might be different on the X and E.  My E is a UK model so prob has a different transformer to the X and no line out.

Ah yeah I remember before the early 90s we used to get appliances without plugs.  You'd get the lead and no plug on the end, so whatever you bought, you had to pay a little extra and get a plug as well.  Then you had to wire up the damn thing when you got home.  I think it was a hangover from some archaic time when plug sockets in the UK weren't standardised.  Just as well we use fuses as our sockets are on a ring main so high current!  Not sure why we'd need a cunningly hidden off switch on the back though, none of my other radios have that apart from the superwoofer.

On the 240V thing, 10 years ago it was agreed all EC countries would go to 230V +/- 10%.  So we're officially 230V, but my house is still running 240V.  So maybe the 220-240 transformers the same in E and H?