The Ghettoblaster

[maccate]

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A friend of mine had a JVC RC-M90. This was a beast of a ghetto blaster and sounded better than most hi-fi's at the time (early to mid 80's) the biggest downfall was the size and weight it was nearly 3 foot wide and about a foot and a half tall. We only put batteries in it once (took 8 D size), this was for a holiday and when we took it on the coach the bus driver nearly stopped us from getting on until my friend showed a pair of headphones, but sitting on a coach for 5 hours with that on our knees was not the smartest thing to do.

[bakermuk]

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This ws mine...Had it in 1983.....it didnt do much more than the basics but I loved it....I want another! Anyone got one?!

[Paulos]

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Haha just realised mine's the same as Sixyten's.
SNAP

[Paulos]

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Just been looking through another thread of an old Argos catalogue and lo and behold there is my Ghetto blaster



Middle line on the right, the Phillips.
Quoted here as £119.95, can't remember how on earth I afforded it then.
I still use it to this day as my PC amp and speakers.
Had an electronic tape drive that always was a pain and has now has given up the ghost.

[Richard1978]

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Here's was I was talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duophonic

[steveffisher]

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God, no! The 'spatial stereo' setting was frightful. It was like listening to Tangerine Dream all the time.

[Richard1978]

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I remember seeing some hi-fi equipment with a spatial setting, but didn't really know what it did.

Some mono recordings of songs were reprocessed with 1 channel slightly out of sync by a fraction of a second to supposedly make it sound like stereo.

This "fake" stereo wasn't liked much by music buyers.

[memoman]

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I had a Phillip's tandem, so called because of its double tape deck. It had the unusual feature of a variable incremental stereo-effect control so that you could vary the stereo quality from mono right up to "Spatial" stereo. I lent it to a bloke from the local mental home and he sold it for beer money!

Not a wise move ouch!

[scotchmist]

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I had a Phillip's tandem, so called because of its double tape deck. It had the unusual feature of a variable incremental stereo-effect control so that you could vary the stereo quality from mono right up to "Spatial" stereo. I lent it to a bloke from the local mental home and he sold it for beer money!

[memoman]

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That Sharp beast took 10 batteries, and cost a whopping £375 in 1982

Thats a catalouge price i found they charged top dollar to start with.

[sixtyten]

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That Sharp beast took 10 batteries, and cost a whopping £375 in 1982

[stuckinthe80's]

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I had a Sharp one with detachable speakers in '85. It was great! I thought the sound quality was fab. It had a 5 band graphic equalizer and only one tape deck. I was so proud of it. It worked great up until the late 90's when it died!

[memoman]

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i think i might have seen something like the mr 990?

[sixtyten]

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Casio CK-200



Fisher SC300

[sixtyten]

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Casio KX-101