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NOS - Personal Stereo: Opening a bit of the '90s (Patreon)

Published:

2018-09-28 05:00:01

Edited:

2018-09-28 12:57:51

Imported:

2021-02

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As promised yesterday, here is the second of this week's two videos.

In this one I'm opening up and testing a 'New Old Stock' Aiwa personal stereo from 1990. For me there is something magical about opening a long forgotten box. I can't help but think about the now middle-aged people who were teenagers back when this was on sale, who got one for Christmas and were over the moon with it. It's a little bit of time travel.

Apparently the story behind these (courtesy of the Tapeheads.net forum) - is that a company developing a 'mind-machine' acquired 1000 Aiwa HS-PC202 MIII personal stereos from a batch of 10,000 that were originally destined for Media Markt in Germany. They sold hundreds of their specially modified version, but the machines that are being offered for sale now are the unused ones that were left over and were pretty much forgotten about in a warehouse until being recently rediscovered.

If you want to get a good quality, totally unused personal stereo cassette player - I don't feel that I'm over-egging it when I say that this might be one of your last chances.

If you do decide to buy one and the chap on ebay is out of stock...bookmark his store and keep checking, after he sells one - he relists another. Here is the (affiliated) link: https://ebay.to/2I89GUO

UPDATE: I've re-worked quite a bit of this since the original upload to include more Dolby C tests and comparisons. The majority of the new sections start around the 5 minute mark.

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BNIB 1990 Aiwa HS-PC202 Mk III - Opened & Tested

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