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Cool. This isn't related to TVs, but I have a couple pieces of old Sony HiFi equipment from the very early 1970's and I'm always amazed by the quality and atte
by Unklejoe 9y ago
Cool.
This isn't related to TVs, but I have a couple pieces of old Sony HiFi equipment from the very early 1970's and I'm always amazed by the quality and attention to detail Sony had back then. I feel like it's back when Sony had something to prove. This may have been the case for most consumer electronics manufacturers back then though.
One is a TA-1130 amplifier, and the other is a reel-to-reel tape player (I forget the model). The most amazing to me is that the reel-to-reel still works fine after nearly 50 years, considering all the moving parts.
- petepete 9y agoThe record player in my dad's mid-80s Sony hifi recently stopped working. He called the local Sony store to buy a spare part and the assistant was born after the part ceased production. Begrudgingly he had to replace the record player. Every (remaining) part of that old Sony is beautiful, unmistakably 80s but so well designed and finished it's still a joy to use; plus it sounds great.
- StavrosK 9y ago> the assistant was born after the part ceased production I can't help but wonder if there's some correlation there. Perhaps the assistant's father was so dismayed at the part's cessation that the only comfort he could attain was in the arms of his wife.
- bladecatcher 9y agoDid you mean causation and not correlation here?
- StavrosK 9y agoI did, thank you, although causation implies correlation as well.
- Torgo 9y agoSometimes you can buy brand new "old stock" of Sony equipment like that on Ebay.
- rbanffy 9y agoI think I saw boxed Trinitron tubes for sale there the other day.