Couldn't Resist.................. Spotted this on eBay last week & was very surprised!! Now I've seen these "System 50" Aiwa's before but either beaten to fook or overpriced to a degree that makes you piss yourself laughing I pondered for the usual 2 minutes before offering £35 which was accepted & just two days later she landed here!! What can I say? If you think the "System 30" is nice, then this series will be a nice surprise............ Never had my hands on one or indeed any 50 series components before - These are real HiFi units once again but built to a crazily high standard & very beautiful too! This is suffering from all belts disintegrated as expected & not much else it seems......... I do think however that this deck will be a challenge to repair even for me! Look at how much is packed in there & how many cables to be moved aside........ Once deck is out, I think it will be easy to rebelt with just cleaning of all the idlers & flywheel plus a drop of machine oil on the capstan! I am loving the Led meters on this & I think they are tri-colour like the L30 deck just much longer in length & range!! Of course this means that once repaired, I will be after System 50 digital tuner & a pre/power amp combination! Maybe they do an integrated amp? I don't know.......... Look out for the restore sometime soon............ Anyone want to buy a System 30?? Et Viola:
