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techiedave said:
Great shout.I remember buying that amp - from Unilet in New Malden I think. Mission 700s speakers, Rega turntable. Brilliant - felt 'proper'.
Eventually moved (over time) to an LP12, Musical Fidelity preamp, mono blocks, Ruark speakers.... I worked on the 3 big hifi mags at the time and we could blag a lot of stuff that was sent for review - but I did actually buy the first system.
Brings back some memories seeing the NAD.
techiedave said:
Still got all 3 elements of the 'stack' from my Sansui kit, amp and tuner work well, tape deck is a little sticky! The Harksound record deck (with strobe for accurate speed alignment) has sadly gone missing over the various house moves.If memory serves a more "proper" stacker consisted of actual seperates connected via RCA Phono plugs for the audio. There were also others that connected to each other via ribbon cable and a pesky third such as the Amstrad.
The third type were simply one unit made to look like equipment stacked on top of each other.
The third type were simply one unit made to look like equipment stacked on top of each other.
driverrob said:
Snap.
Although you seem to have lost the fragile bits.
I've just had to replace the stylus and speakers.
I use it mostly for music in the day and TV (AUX input) in the evenings.
That CD player looks identical to an old Philips CD player I had (I may still have it somewhere). I assume made by Philips and re-badged?Although you seem to have lost the fragile bits.
I've just had to replace the stylus and speakers.
I use it mostly for music in the day and TV (AUX input) in the evenings.
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
IIRC 'Matsui' was a Currys brand name.
I had a Matsui VHS recorder about 25 years ago.
Nails it in one.I had a Matsui VHS recorder about 25 years ago.
Matsui was Currys own brand
ProLine was Comets
Phillips definitely DID NOT make that CD Player for Matsui/ Currys
The Philips one the poster before had would have been of much better build quality
Around that time though Phillips made some extremely good CD players and they also owned Marantz so a lot of their electronice ended up in Marantz players and being remodelled and improved upon
GetCarter said:
I used to sell and deliver those.
I used to live briefly in a caravan on a static site. I rented one off someone. Great TV watched loads of telly on it but but................When arriving home when it was switched on it would make the loudest scariest clicking noises. Believe it was due to damp condensation whatever in a thing called the tripler ?
As I understand it the damp was causing something in the tripler rubber neck thing to short and take the quickest route ?
Does that make sense
Our first colour television in 1973'ish, Dad relented and hired one of these;
- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).
How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).
The television picture I copied from this interesting website;
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm
- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).
How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).
The television picture I copied from this interesting website;
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm
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