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I have a 25 year old Pioneer mini compo still going strong albeit only using its 1000W PMPO amp and speakers for Aux playback. Front load CD player and one out of two tape players conked out already.
In other countries, there are people who restore and collect these vintage appliances.
last time sungai road got alot of those metallic transistor radios and casette players
I remember when I was a kid, I received a very nice present from my parents - an Aiwa discman
Onkyo is goodest brand too.
The present AKAI is no longer owned by MITSUBISHI. A Hongkie company (Grande Holdings) bought it over.
My brother, a serious audiophile, used to have the TEAC cassette deck incorporating its famous GX Ferrite heads at that time. I also used to buy those tape heads (from those electronic spare parts shops in Sungei Road) and replaced them by myself when they are worn.
Nowadays, nobody uses cassette tapes anymore. It's much more convenient to use MP3 players, although the true sound quality still cannot beat a good cassette tape, even at the highest bit rate encoding. A main disadvantage for cassette tape is after some time when the tape itself is worn, its Wow & Flutter will deteriorate. Also, those cheap cassette tapes will always leave its "oxide dust" on the tape heads and will need frequent cleaning with alcohol, which was a pain in the neck.
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Onkyo speakers are good. I'd almost wanted to buy their bookshelf speakers at Adelphi, but ended up buying the German "T+A" brand instead because it was on offer. Unfortunately not long after, one of its crossover network had a leaky high frequency by-pass capacitor. I then replaced it by myself costing less than S$10 and it's been working fine till today.
During the trip to Adelphi, I tested several speakers (at different shops) with my own Kenny G CD playing the same song: The Joy Of Love. This song will truly test almost all the frequency spectrum capability of the speakers.
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used to play TDK casettes in my TEAC, can use pencil poke into the hole to rewind and forward
The best speaker I ever came across was EPOS ES-14. Bestest for vocals but notoriously fussy with amps.
Bose is shit.wat abt BOSE? at one time it was quite hip to have these tiny surround sound speakers
BOSE stands for Bass Only, Sound Empty.
Bose Satellite speakers are known to be problematic. Satellite speakers are only good for Home Theatre setup where you will need at least the THX 5.1 speaker setup. For true music listening, the standard Stereo mode will suffice, but must be used with good speakers and amplifiers. Some people confessed that equalizers cannot be used, but I strongly counter that because acoustically, not all rooms are created equal and this is where equalizers are used to produce the best sound output performance suitable to the listener. Each listener will have his own different setting preferences.wat abt BOSE? at one time it was quite hip to have these tiny surround sound speakers
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Agree.
With cassette tapes, u can rewind back to the part of the song u want to hear.
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