I picked up a rx-sa80 today for £15, it was mislabelled as rx-sq80. I spotted it after reading The Walkman Archive article on the boodo khan’s dynamic Eq. The RX has a fixed EQ, but does anyone have any more information? I will post pics up when it arrives. I think it is from 1986? Edit: I found the old stereo2go page on this model, some great info there http://www.stereo2go.com/topic/index.php?board_oid=193392314111653483&content_oid=295574646075608873
I've been looking speedy2.0, there's not a lot out there, great find by the way, I haven't seen a cool player in a long time in the wild, I used to find them all the time although they were rarely as nice as yours.
Well it arrived yesterday and what a find! This really is a top notch unit. The radio does work but I need to adjust the switch inside, it appears to have snapped off- rather than not working, the switch dosnt engage properly so it slips. But with a screwdriver it does engage! So a little adjustment will make a perfectly working player. The tape type selecter, Dolby and Ultraphonic bass are also superb. I have been hammering a remastered Led Zeppelin live tape all day, at home and in the car and while the highs are a little dirty the all round performance is really good. My only question is, the red ‘stop’ button on the front - what does it do?? Nothing much it seems. My guess is it stops the radio tuner scanning through. My current favourite player! I can imagine many many hours and days listening here.
Wow, the legendary stop button....this unit was famous for eating tapes but it was also a popular unit, so they changed the design on the assembly line adding the stop button that the user could hit to keep the player from eating more of the tape.
That is brilliant. I’ve never seen an emergency stop feature on consumer equipment. Was this common in other models?
Fiddlesticks. No RECORD function in this otherwise interesting-looking Walkman-type. Not too sure if it's got a tape counter, either, though it seems to have a digital display. (And a pity that it seemed to have a tape-eating habit.) One wonders what the ULTRA PHONIC MODE does, though. A quick Google search shows that Hugo (the administrator Walkman Archive) asked a question or two about it in a late December 2011 Stereo2Go post (on the old S2G 'site, obviously). Is it Panasonic's personal player version of "Stereo-Wide" or "Stereo Surround"?
It’s a fixed EQ setting which struggles above volume level 6/7. But the amplifier is quite powerful so not entirely unexpected, you don’t need to have the volume past 7 anyway as it’s pretty loud. I set it for 4 in my car and used the car controls to bring up the level. No tape counter. The display is for the radio only
