Vintage Hitachi TRK-8610AU Boombox Demonstration

[@kyfeam]

always loved the look of Hitachi's from this time period.. owned 300 boomboxes but never owned one of these.. might change my mind on that..

[@Eric-h2u6p]

That's what I call a a proper radio, it's so cool not like the shite made these days. I love it.

[@radon222u]

I had seen this stereo in an ad of Aug 1981 edition of JAL magazine. There was one more stereo ad in that magazine, the Sanyo C7. I was just 5 then😂

[@noidle22]

I wasn't even close to being born when these were on the market, I do envy the days gone by of hifi and record shops which I never experienced.

[@radon222u]

@@noidle22 by late 90s & early 2000s, stereo hifi was replaced by multichannel. I have worked in home hifi but joined pro audio around 2007. The entry of multichannel destroyed stereo. Headphones + internet is today's sound system. I still prefer a simple sterei setup.

[@radon222u]

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb yes Panasonic used to have good midrange. Also JVC.

[@radon222u]

The meter button helps you to tune a radio station properly. In TUNE mode all the LEDs lit up when the radio station is best tuned.

[@noidle22]

Yes i forgot to show that in the video. FM reception is pretty poor in my building.

[@johnlomasney7632]

send it to me please?

[@noidle22]

It will be for sale sometime

[@Eric-h2u6p]

AU doesnt mean Australia it means Amplifier Unit. It was universal posh speak for Radio when you had ia high end set back in the day. If you didn't have i high end set you would get a model number with R1, R2, R3, or whatever modification they were. Simply meaning radio version. That's a Rolls Royce you have there of what was available at the time.

[@noidle22]

Great information, thanks