Akai Clarity mini system.
Many a teenage dream.
Although most ended up with a Grundig I’m sure.
Although still not to be sniffed at, at the time.
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Captures the excitement for sure
Never impressed by B&O stuff, Very plasticky and imo didn’t sound good but cost the earth
One of my regrets was not buying a Michell Synchro when I saw my first one in Uxbridge Audio, but I had just started my first mortgage
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I wanted one of those Hitachi boomboxes so badly! What a blast from the past 8)
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Sounded great, 22 proper watts but had a real flaw on the handle. Had two fail on me and with the second one went to Pentax camera straps (obviously in red and black!) but still the handle came off and got the money back and went big, real big. Happy days
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Just noticed that the pic confirms my memory , sticker in bottom right has the 22w.
The Phillips that followed was a serious beast, nothing could best that.
Unless you wanted a vertical turntable and a mate had the big Sharp that had one.
iPod looks emancipated in comparison (and realise the iPod is now dead)
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Childhood remembers these
National Panasonic if I remember correctly
Complete streamers of their day?
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Oh my goodness! Is that a Spectra Mat on the LP12?
I used one of those on mine for a few years, before I saw sense and replaced it with a Herbie’s Mat all the way from the US of A. I still use that today.
The National Panasonic units did rather good high quality cassette recordings from their turntables if i recall. Maxell tapes were a particular favourite of ours.
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Childhood memories were of Elton John, Abba, and ELO, maybe with a little touch of Neilson Smielson in the night , plus plenty of compilation’s via some mail order
My grandfather had a Sony HMK80 in the, erm, 80s:
In brushed aluminium and wood finish 
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I never managed to get hold of some Type III cassettes to use with it.
Still holding some value secondhand, it seems. IIRC, it was skipped when he died. That now makes me 
Mark
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This was my first step into hifi (internet photo). Sold many years ago, but I still think it’s rather attractive.
Dynatron and Goldring Lenco combination.
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The hifi upcyclers. They create vintage design furnitures.
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What for all these buttons ?
I was wondering what the mat was, so thank you for the identification. Super thick and heavy as I recall. The photo I posted was scraped from the net.
I had DQ10s
Early 1980s
My first serious speaker
A poor man’s quad electrostatic
David
I always loved the clean/cluttered look of these Yamaha receivers. I had the cr-820 but pictured is the cr-2020 https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--BBz_JAev--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1648030080/ijebfr4979axbpoved9z.jpg
maybe someone can post this pic???
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