Parcel arrives this morning that I had almost forgotten was coming........... Wrapped up extremely well by the seller as promised so all looked promising It was!! - How often do any of us receive a stereo that needed just a polish up, a head & roller clean & a replacement aerial?? I mean this didn't really need cleaning tbh, no layers of dust in the handle bay or round the rear inputs, the usual places that turn up really dirty!! Must have been cared for all it's life & I am over the moon with it - Members may remember that I was only interested in one piece Sanyo (Mostly) mini's & a few other mini's!! Somehow after a while, I had hears from a few saying that 3 piecer's can be really worth having & some sound amazing........... Having had a 460 for a year, I know these are strong performers so I wanted this one & won it for a mere £50 delivered! What can I say? Look & listen yourselves to the Fisher PH-430LG Portable Compo System Soft touch, Dolby, 5 band graphic along with music search a decent tuner, manual recording level & a powerful amplifier!! Only change I am going to make is to replace the horrid speaker wires with something of better quality.......... But For Now: Viola
Great find, those are rare around here. I've said it before, Fisher was pretty much junk over here except for the boomboxes, for some reason they put all their money into them. Is there an AKA Sanyo? Those speakers look huge, around 8"?
nice one in great colour ! i'm almost sure it's a SANYO-AKA, somehow i think they also sold it in Europe under the old brand UHER (?) i like how they called it STUDIO-STANDARD and backside "precision manufactured" - what studio - a hair-studio ?
Studio-Standard was on all their equipment, we mostly saw the big "stack" systems that any 14 year old would have. Fisher owned this market segment with the low cost very entry level equipment. The boomboxes were never sold through the same retail outlets like K-Mart, Zayre, JC-Pennys, etc.
Here he is with his best friend..........Managed to get this early this morning, dog not keen on camera usually hides
This is a Sanyo no question, same deck as the bigger more powerful PH-460!! Both have very detailed sound, the bigger 460 is very powerful & loud - This one is pretty damn good too!
As a postscript to the above post.............. I noticed that every now & then the right channel woofer was making the dreaded 'Coil Rub' noise, not all the time but still very annoying nonetheless!! A quick search through the dozens of spare speakers turned up a pair of 6 inch woofers out of a large generic 3 piece scrapped long ago! Still with same size & type of tweeters attached made these a perfect choice especially as the woofers had a bigger magnet & were nice acoustic suspension type of speaker........ An afternoon spent plodding along (I am finding it very difficult these days) & replacing the horrid speaker cables that had seen better days along with the drivers which fitted perfectly saw to the end of the original problem!! Nice warm bass from the woofers & crisp highs from the tweeters - Woofers have a larger cone area & larger surround than the tired old originals resulting in a better overall sound!! The dust cap is also larger & looks great! The bass really plods along nicely on a dance track!! You will need headphones or decent desktop speakers to hear how deep it goes now - the usual audio limiter struggles as my phone is just too close!! lol Et Viola!
Is the coil rub from the surrounds breaking down? I remember years ago redoing some Polk Speakers that had the infamous detached magnets. I had to make a jig with PVC pipe and re-center and then glue them back on but it worked flawlessly.
No! There is no visible damage at all & the old drivers have the bulletproof thick rubber ring that carries the cone! Am keeping them & am going to remove the dust cap & reshape the coil if I can Done it before a few times! Am just relieved that the Fisher is back pumping away, I like this stereo a lot!
I've refoamed a few, I think you can use a 1.5 volt battery to get the speaker to move to check for coil clearance but it's been years. I'd check over on audiokarma to see for sure.
