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As a pre-teen in the early 1980s, I and others definitely used the term "New Wave" to describe Gary Numan, Devo, the Cars, the Police etc. Some...
A Bart Simpson box, absolutely. ;D
Beautiful!
That's a good point. The proliferation of cheap stereos benefitted people who couldn't afford high-end gear or didn't care about design, build...
Yep, a race to the bottom selling quantity over quality. The audio equivalent of fast fashion.
Aiwa fell hard in quality in just a few years. Really sad given how nice their products from the seventies and early eighties were. I have a few...
Excellent! Thanks for posting the catalog. I don't think I've seen any of those models.
"A big Aiwa turd" haha
(Maybe they did but I haven't seen any.)
Throwing down the gauntlet! I wish Aiwa made some true stand-out models in the early CD boombox era.
Two CD players and a tandem-configured auto-reverse double cassette deck?? That is trick.
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It looks pristine. Nice work!
Analog Alley has it for sale as a PDF for $13.95. https://www.analogalley.com/osccart/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=14&products_id=2217
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