Same type of styling to my Sony 118SD that you ‘liked’ about post 180 in this thread.
Yes, looks good to me.
How bout we agree it’s old. 
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Yay! I’m vintage!
But not antique.
I thought vintage was derived from “vine age” but that’s probably just an incorrect assumption frome how the word looks.
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Still have a Quad FM3 Tuner.
In its box as no external Aerial available, otherwise it would be in use.
Couldn’t find the actual one we had (pretty sure it was a Zenith), but for a few years in the early 70s, this type of setup was all I had…it was the “family stereo”:
About the only good thing I can say is it made me burn inside to get something better, louder, with some BASS; the speakers were just the shittiest things ever.
I can still remember the “zzzz” of one record dropping onto the one before it - I think it could hold 4 records.
We also had a Philips portable cassette player - couldn’t find a photo of that either; we must have bought the only ones of these models!
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Apologies as I have posted this picture elsewhere a few times but feels appropriate here as well. If we are talking consuls type cassette players, Here is my Sony TC-177SD. When new it cost about half what you would pay for a new mini so it’s build is best described as substantial
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Where do you keep all your vintage hifi gear? Have you got a barn or a warehouse attached to your house 
Something like that.
The top photo is rather confusing, as it looks for all the world like a certain TT from Glasgow that many of us on this Forum have in one shape or another.
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Yes, in the Music Room, Manchester
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I had one of these when I first went to University circa ‘86
Put the Speakers on Target stands and wired them with QED 79 strand cable.
Served ok until I got a Thorens TD160, Cambridge Audio P35 and Castle Warwick speakers.
The Sony unit then served in the Kitchen of my 1st house, so it probably ended up having a 15 year life.
My parents bought a Bush “Music Centre” back in 78/79.
They unpacked it and then wondered off to the kitchen to read how to setup this “console out of Doctor Who”!
10 minutes later they came rushing back into the living room to find out how Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was blasting through the house.
It’s amazing what a 12 and 15 year old pair of boys can do without the instruction manual🤣
Sadly, can’t find a picture on Google 
UPDATE
Found one😁
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I’ve always been in awe with Nak’s tape decks - but never had the pleasure of owning one. Thanks for sharing.
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My old Sony ST88 tuner bought, I think, in 1974. It has the scars of several house moves. It hasn’t been used for many years. Not sure why I still have it.
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What were your impressions?
Thanks for the reply, was it this exact model? Adjusted for inflation this would have retailed at around £4K in todays money, that’s one hell of a student system!
It was a Sony FH-7 MkII with just with a cassette player - the TT and CD player were optional extras. But then in '86 CDs were still very new.
As was the battery box. Mine was just Mains.
I had a similar type of system from Technics before, with some better speakers, but these were taken when my parent’s house was burgled, so I got the Sony unit with the Insurance Money.
Yes, it was ok for a student system, or so I thought.
In my 2nd year, shared a house with an Acoustics Engineer (we shared many of the same core lectures) and he had just bought a Townsend TT (with the front damper) and a Sony CD player. He also proceeded to write some Speaker modelling software in Fortran to run on the Prime Mainframes and started making his own speakers with Focal drivers and Scanspeak tweeters.
Enter the rabbit hole!
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One of the best sounding Valve amps - they compared them with the Audio Innovations 1st, which were silver-wired triode amps, and they just blow them away with more, more of everything.
And these were the Audio Innovations Amp that I heard my first WTF system.
Voyd Reference, Helius Silver wired arm with an active IO Note cartridge (needed 6 wires in the tonearm - 4 signal and 2 power), silver step up transformers, Audio Innovations 1st Pre and Power Amps into a set of Snell loudspeakers playing in a big room.
Friday Night in San Francisco Live - blew my mind.
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Apologies Simon, I thought it was the Sony tape deck I posted you had. But still an FH-7 is a good student system. A found the battery pack which are very rare after about 4 years of searching and took a punt on one from Spain I think. It turned up boxed and never even been opened, not bad as it was 30 years old…
