Vintage HiFi. Sounds great, looks cool, costs peanuts
This was another boot sale find. I paid £20 for this and it came with a microphone.
No surprises that it didn’t work. The surprise was how simple the problem was. It was just a blown fuse. Ebay soon provided the necessary fuse and a couple of tapes to try it with. Continue reading “Grundig TK 14 Portable valve mono reel to reel tape recorder”
The whole teenager thing started with access to their own music on portable players. The Dansette was the iPod of its time. Portable and with a playlist capability.
The Sony Walkman WM-EX662 and WM-EX550 are almost identical high end portable cassette players. I have had mine apart. I took some pictures which you may find useful.
At a boot sale, I came across a high-end Sony Walkman for the princely sum of £1. A few cars down were a box of 45 cassettes for £4. As a fan of Vinyl, I thought it pertinent to give the cassette a re-evaluation.
This beauty of a valve radio was bought for just £2 from a boot sale. It’s a Roberts, valve, shortwave, and portable..
Continue reading “Roberts Radio 56462 with Amplion Convette”
Roberts Radio’s have held a Royal charter for many years, and rightly so. This has nothing to do with the fact that the Rambler model was the only radio which inmates of her majesty’s prisons were allowed to have. Continue reading “Roberts Rambler Radio at Her Majesty’s Prisons”