I love the look, patented AIWA Small, Square Buttons everywhere, just like the portables. It looks like the S9000 goes for around $2000.00 USD, I...
From 1970 a Philips siting! [ATTACH]
Oh yea! Techmoan Effect, the $50 tape deck starts going for a few hundred? Great song and sounds great through the Klipsch Heresy's. A...
The middle end kind of dissappeared in the 90's, you had the millions of cheap units everywhere and you'd see these really cool, but expensive,...
Here's a shot of a different aiwa's transformer shielding. Other posters think it might be a prototype since any information on the S1000 Model...
AIWA XK-S1000 went for a little over $10,000 USD, wow. Even with some war wounds, it must be extremely rare. I wonder how the wood base works,...
A Silver Brochure, it looks like around 1974 but I don't know for sure. Shin Shirasuna Denki was the builder and they might have also made Harman...
Found on X, from 1983 I think this was a full-line audio catalog, see the punch holes? [ATTACH]
Found this neat Sony ICF-7500 from 1978, it's wild how Sony never really carried similar design through the years, everything always looked fresh....
I'd rather have banded headphones, I just don't like sticking them in my ear. Good luck with the project.
This guy has a great X thread, he works on a ton of high-end tape decks and speakers, check out his 3-D printed molds for speaker surrounds....
It was probably for brushing off any flakes, it did it's duty and now is gone. For how much tape flaking happened, it's surprising these decks...
Sony Hotline Catalog, it looks around 1984? I'd say this was more for kids, there's no high-end models but there's some neat stuff like the saw...
Hitachi CAP from 1985, it this the smallest portable? I know it was in the running. I'm trying to figure out how the radio pack plugs in, it...
Oh yea, another oddity not on walkman.land yet..........
I love the oddball units, this is kind of tame but still a favorite of mine. I recently posted one for sale in the mega-sale thread, they do come...
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1984, I need to start a thread with the "ON AIR" Models, they broadcast on FM so you don't need a headphone cord or you want to play on your...
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From TDK's 1986 Brochure (in the cassette ad thread), MC Metal around $10 USD each, big money! [ATTACH]
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