Mini Stereos and Cool Car Compo Ads

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  1. Experious

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    I don't really know the movie, but I am assuming that is where the song comes from?
     
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    Going back to the Sony E-88 on page 43, I was just watching a video on the USA Sony Museum and the guy that runs it has the E-88 Amplifier, given to him by Akio Morita from his personal system! His is labeled Espirit.
     
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    Great movie and I do like the song. They spread out "white" sand for the effect in the beginning of the movie clip and song.


     
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    *ESPRIT? I had never heard of that before, and it appears most units aren't badged that way, so maybe it was a Japan only thing too? I wonder how they fit in with the ES line.

    I have an Aiwa catalogue that I got from Brashes when I was a kid (I am sure I posted it somewhere here) and it had a V1200 midi system on the cover. When I did manage to get one years later, I was always disappointed that it didn't have the small "Craftsmanship" decal on the cassette deck that the model on the front of that catalogue had!
     
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    I found it a few pages back, sorry was the exact same story! :p
     
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    https://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-ESPRIT.html

    There's a good story about the line on the left side, Axel on TVK knew everything about these companies and was a big loss when he left the website. Interesting notes included the UK was the weakest EU Market for Sony and Germany was the strongest.
     
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    1998, kind of a wild ad from JVC


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    1979, I didn't know this had an EQ! Never seen it before, unless I already posted it.


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    1980, Jet Sound


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    1980, more JET


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    1980, the beginning of the big amps!


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    Great information on that site, but the navigation is terrible! It is passable at best on a PC, but almost impossible to navigate on laptops and makes no concessions whatsoever for phones.
     
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    I'm guessing some of these ads were made for "Adult" magazines? o_O
     
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    The Vintage Knob was the fashizzle 20 years ago, the owner was collecting all kinds of documents from Japan in regards to audio. Urban myth is that he overextended his credit buying thousands of dollars in brochures and manufacturer issued books and sold the site off. The new owners, Audioscope?, just sat on it and never updated it, and about 60% of it still is usable but alot is gone.

    The owner Axel also had one of the best audio threads of all time, The Web of Japanese Contractors, talking about who made what for whom.
    https://web.archive.org/web/2016030...knob.org/tvk_talk/viewtopic.php?f=1477&t=2395

    Yea, there's some girly magazines on archive.org, some had a ton of audio but that kind of advertising started getting frowned upon in the mid-80's. The ones above were a surprise find from Loaded Magazine (UK), wow, just a little overt
     
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