The Morse Electrophonic Console Hi-Fi - No Bang for No Bucks.
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- Опубліковано 8 гру 2023
- I spotted this driving home one day for free on the side of the road. It was everything I could imagine from a cheap 70's hi-fi.
That is to say it was incredibly cheap and tacky. It had also been mostly ruined by the rain.
Lets take a look around and plug it in before I hesitantly send it off again to the Department Store in the Sky.
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I am a retired electronics tech and I can tell you that the Morse Electrophonic units were cheaply made but VERY expensive to buy - a lot of folks got sucked in by style over substance. units as pictured were many 100s of dollars - some well over $1000. And they were like 5 watts /channel. A cheap portable stuck in a big flashy cabinet. Thanks for the memory !
Five watts?, yo mean more like 2.5 watts/channel. With about 10%distortion.
The fact that it even powers up after probably sitting for decades is a miracle.
I'm getting a shango066 vibe from this video. All it's missing is starting the video with, "Vintage...solid state...boat anchor...etc". 😂
Baked
@@danielknepper6884 😂
Need a different eol , got to set fire to it or blow it up and replay in slow motion. And the stuff he eols is working and giving a decent picture before detonation.
"Yes, nothing but the best."
Then hear the sirens of Los Angeles in the background.
I was a teenager in the late 70's I remember being at my local K-Mart seeing numerous brand new cheap quality stereos like yours , Yorx, SoundDesign, LLoyd's, ect I thought they were crap compared to the more reputable stereo brands like Marantz, Yamaha, Sansui which I also saw and experienced back then. But today I would say their vintage cheap build quality is better then modern day Crosley, Victrola types.
I would totally agree!!!!
I totally had this unit! I remember my parents bought it for me when I was a little kid....must have been early 80s. I had it in my basement that was like my play room. I also had another console thing that was more upright, like a jukebox, with that mirror ball and flashing lights on the bottom!
I can't tell you how many hours of record playing I put on both of those during my boyhood - birthday parties, hanging with friends, etc. But this big console being featured here I definitely had - it may have been called something else under a different brand, but I definitely recognize the layout of the knobs.
Actually it was made by the Morse sewing machine company in New York. At one point they claimed to be the largest manufacturer of stereos in the US. They also would claim that these things were 100 watts or more! The "rating" they used was "ipp" apparently "input power". Perhaps referring to how much it would suck out of the wall. They actually put out around 7 watts RMS. They cost around $199 USD. Most every kid had one in the 70s, until they were teens and got a Pioneer or a Marantz.
It's actually a discount store stereo, sold by retailers like J. M. Fields, K-Mart and Zayre. In fact Monty Hall gave them away on Let's Make A Deal.
It's the cheapest grade of everything except the BSR record changer, which is a lot better than those miserable plastic turntables sold today. If it were disassembled, all of the old lube washed, scraped and scoured off, reassembled and lubricated, a new idler wheel and cartridge installed, it will play for another fifty years. It's certainly not high fidelity but it is reliable.
Larf if you will, but the Electrophonic was great for tearing apart and building them into your own custom cabinet with flashy lights and glitter. So don't knock it there Maple Leaf.
Thought about that. The speaker grilles were nice enough to rebuild the audio end.
Hate to see that fine specimen go to the landfill, where will the mice live now? :P
When I was a kid my neighbor gave me a Morse Electrophonic all in one tuner, 8 track and record player with a pair of speakers. I thought it was so cool until I brought it home and plugged it in. Man what a disappointment! It had what seemed like huge speakers to me at the time, but the sound quality was terrible. I managed to pry the covers off the speakers to find a single 6 inch mid range, the tweeters were fake. Ever since then I remembered to avoid anything with the name Electrophonic!
Also, Nice AMC Eagle!
Funny how even 8 tracks got quadraphonic and yet, youtube can just do stereo still, what a shame.
Because things that stream UA-cam videos all have handy quad decoders built in…….
@@tomeasterbrook9486 It would be trivial to make a quad setup with a computer.
Genuinely it's weird has UA-cam has experimented with stereo 3D and VR but neither UA-cam and most media compositing programs I run make it remotely easy to export three or more audio channels in a standard format. I think we're just going to be stuck with Stereo for a while.
These came with vertical driveshafts on a 6100 Hz quatrodongel, Electrophonic almost eliminated sidefumbling by using six hydro coptic marsal veins at the same time, in so fitting to a cardinal-gram meter. You see when I was young, encabulation was all done by hand (usually by whomever that got up to change the record). I remember the first pin-box encabulators introduced by Electrophonic in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam war. Capacitive deractence has always been a problem with Vietnam-Era vinyl due to the hippie movement's sabotage of the spurving bearings so they couldn't handle the panometric load and they shattered. Killed you instantly. Today Morse Electrophonic is owned by Macquarie Telecom that has kept the technology going, enabeling scalable electrophonics at real-time speed.
True quad requires the bean-bag chair to be placed in the precise center of the room with a speaker on each corner of the shag rug.
Those two switches on the back cuts the internal speakers off in case you want to use external speakers only
My grandfather had the same one, but everything wasnt all one piece. the speakers were able to move and the unit was moveable it wasnt all in a cabinet like the video, ours it sat on a table he made in the living room. it was a christmas gift in 1976. The reason being is I broke his Magnavox Astro Sonic stereo console he had since 1966. he only kept this Morse until 1979, he didnt like it at all. but it was just something to play his albums. for his 47 birthday, My grandmother bought him a Fisher receiver with a separate turntable and cassette deck. So he ended up giving me his Morse stereo that I kept in my bedroom until the mid 80s. I made 8tracks on it. which i still have and back then in the 80s you could buy 8track cheap in the cut out bin. so I was a kid jammin out to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin 8tracks. just on our unit, the 8track was on the bottom and the radio turner was on top. I have a photo of me some where playing my billy joel album on it.
I had one of these!! Kept it in my studio just for looks. Threw it away literally 2 weeks ago. Never listened to it except once when i first got it. Bought it for $10 and it was worth every cent just to sit there and be the tackiest thing youve ever seen. Mine had one 8 inch speaker in each side, nothing in any of the other speaker looking devices.
We had our fair share of garbage here in Australia too, although I have to say that the 8 track tape system was really only a small percentage here ie 10% to them while cassettes were 90% in popularity. Those stereo systems are well known here as “ 3 in 1’s”. Good video 👍.
I'd rather you didn't throw things like this out. It still is a piece of history.
Frankly, most of this crap was thrown out in the era that it was built. It was pseudo-product. I made a separate post about a set of Electrophonic "nice" speakers that someone included in a trade deal with my dad. We decided to smoke them for giggles with my Sansui AU-717.
@@BruceRichardsonMusic That makes it all the more worthwhile to keep it.
We can keep them all at your house then
I learned a lot about cheap electronics while going through someone else's misery when the landlord put all that stuff out and us bad kids tore stuff up to see what was in it.
@@cdshawn I don't have a house.
The Repeat button simply keeps the 8-track mechanism from changing programs (e.g., stay on program 1 and not move on to 2, 3 or 4). The 2 metal posts that come in contact with the foil pad on the 8-track, thus closing the circuit that activates a solenoid that moves the head assembly to the program number. The Repeat button bypasses that circuit.
Ah, that *kinda-almost* makes sense, yes, thanks for this insight! Hopefully we can see what's inside the 8-track chassis...
@@ForgottenMachines It's no different than any other 8-track mechanism assembly, just minor changes to avoid being sued by other manufacturers. Although, I'm pretty sure the player/recorders are all made through one company and licensed to other brands.
The Repeat button is for when you really really really want to listen to 2 and a half songs over and over again .....
@@monicapushkin3274 in some cases half a song repeated several times
That brings up another factoid, for all you younger generation folks whom have never seen or used an 8-track. If your tape is say a 60 minute total play/record time, it actually breaks down to about 15 minutes per program (Program 1 = 15 minutes, Program 2 = 15 minutes, etc.). So if a song is over 15 minutes long or the songs on the tape don't separate correctly to avoid the foil piece, you'll have fade outs at the end of a program, then a fade in once the next program number starts. This will sound like the beginning half of a song on one program and the lest half on the second program.
These are common problems with 8-track tapes. The work around is to limit the number of songs recorded onto the program and even shuffle songs to a different order so they fit right.
“Repeat” prevents the 8-track channel from switching, causing the channel to repeat over and over.
No doubt that BSR deck is seized solid, ive rebuilt my mothers Dansette Capri and the amplifier was the easy part. I went through the circuit and replaced components in no time then the fun started!! The autochanger needed the usual strip down and rebuild it was completely solid!
On the Lloyds stereo, the sq button is to engage the decoder for quadrophonic records. The 4 channels were matrixed and encoded onto a stereo record. The SQ decoder in the stereo would split the 2 channels to 4.
Yes the 70s was all about chipboard and the colour brown.
pee yellow, and puke green 🤣
@@cjmarsh504 Yes! the 70's were horrendous, as soon as 1980 came it was like a new dimension.
What memories!! And with the BSR record changer - the Crosley of the 1970s. My older sister had a closed-top lid console that might have been branded Morse Electrophonic. Even if not, about the same department store thing.
Says the guy with the AMC Eagle.... All very interesting and served their purpose in their time.
I do really like your car and the stereo. Cheap is cheap. Good working is good. Cheap and good working are a modest and unusual balance.
As a kid I hated all of the mass market no bass kind of stuff. I'd put my foot through it as opposed to do anything else with it. As an adult I find the industrial design and visual aesthetics used to market the items very interesting. I can enjoy an economy all in one system if it works well, feels reasonably solid and has a good balanced sound. An item designed for a purpose and to a price point.
This is like the 70's version of my old GPX stereo with the dual tape deck and 3 disc CD changer that I had as a kid back in the late 90's-early 00's. It sounded like crap, both tape decks ate tapes, and the CD changer broke a just a few months after I got it 😂
Looks amazing 👍🏻
When I was kid in the late 80s, my parents bought a “department store special” stereo system by Fisher. It had 3 “stacked”
components (phono, tuner, and tape), but it was really just one big plastic plastic unit stuffed into a particleboard stand, accompanied by awful particleboard speakers. Eventually we got a CD player, and then were living large! We endured that thing for at least 10 years, and my mom is still using the speakers to this day.
Back in the mid 70's I used to work for Lafayette Radio Electronics. We sold these Morse Electrophonic stereos. Let me tell you that you are correct that these were junk. Customers were always bringing them back because of various defects. They were absolute garbage. At one point I believe Lafayette turned to Japan to build our home entertainments systems that were better. That unit you found on the curb was put there for a reason.
About as good as many American cars which caused the rise of Japan in both sectors.
I can smell the moldy shag carpet through the screen 😂 Nice find though, I'll probably replace the speakers with better units.
Make a new plinth for the record changer, throw the rest out.
@@kc4cvh I agree, the BSR turntable is more feasible
Some of these units actually sound very good. Not "Morse" quality, but slightly more reputable names have very decent sound and power.
Beautiful ❤
The switchable "4D sound" is likely an "Ambience" or "stereo enhancer" control with a time delay or asymmetrical equalization.
15:28- "YES, ladies and gentlemen! YOU SAW IT FOR YOURSELF!!! The Morse/Electrophonic Total Music System tears apart as *good* - and less expensive - than *ANY OTHER HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!"*
Ohhh so this is where the white van stuff started 😂😂
Omg! My mom had one of those! Sadly my brothers threw it away.
'Repeat' just disables the automatic track advance. If you're listing to program 3 of the 8-track, program 3 and put it in repeat mode, will just play program 3 over and over without ever advancing to program 4. Pretty sure you can advance to the next program manually, though. Turning the repeat mode off returns the 8-Track player to full-auto, infinite-loop mode.
'Rewind' is a misnomer. You are correct in that you cannot actually rewind an 8-Track, but you can fast-forward until the program restarts and (inaccurately) call that 'rewinding'.
Memory stop, if my own memory serves, allows the tape to play all four programs just once, and then stop.
These were all fairly 'sophisticated' features for the lowly 8-Track.
4d is NOT discrete 8-Track. Many hi-fi manufacturers of the mid 1970s had some sort of 'quadraphonic' emulation. It isn't true quad, discrete or matrixed. How it is implemented varies - some manufacturers just directed certain frequency ranges, either entirely or partially, toward front or rear, some manufacturers provided a slight reverb to the rear speakers, and/or reduced the rear-speaker volume slightly to provide the illusion of a concert hall. My 1975 Magnavox had something along those lines.
nothing to do with Fairbank Morse. Fairbank morse was a windmill manufacturer and later a producer of diesel locomotives and diesel engines used in submarines. I still enjoyed your video. My dad had one of these and it was a total crap. For fun look at old "price is right" game shows from the 70s and according to Bob Barker "The price is $1000.00 dollars. I have to laugh.
Repeat on that Electrophonic 8 track likely meant that it would repeat playing the current "program" if engaged vs switching automatically onto the next one when the current one finished.
it looks good, the design, 4d it´s a matrix 4 type of sound ,a litle of both channels mixed in each speaker but you need 4 speakers for that, and volume loudness,at the time my favorite knob
I've seen a couple of these here in Sask. The local recycling center has one identical to this one set up in their lobby. I shake my head every time I walk past it.
Love the Eagle wagon....I had one of those...loved that car....
Say hello to my Daily Driver (and poor financial decision)
Dude the ffw & rew was for a cassette tape adapter for your 8 -track player
The one we had when I was growing up was another brand and it was just as cheap & cheesy. Some parts of the wood were real and probably cost more than any other part of it. However I did see one console on another channel from the late 50's and early 60's. I don't remember what brand i was but it was far away from the one in this video. It was a true high end piece that had powerful tube monoblocks for its massive speakers in each side of its high density cabinet, and a quality turntable. It is definitely worth seeking out for restoration.(just can't remember the brand!!)
The unit you showed with the disco ball brought back memories, my Uncle had that exact model. One hundred percent tacky, sounded like crap, the disco ball was a blast to turn on though.
I'm shocked that has a tweeter and a sealed one at that. That must be a "high end" model. Morse, Electrohome, and Electrophonic were crap mostly sold at discount stores and drug stores. They had a lot of disco models with Christmas lights in the speakers that would flash to the beat. They usually had huge speaker enclosures like yours with a 4-6" on each side. No tweeters.
I had a pair of Nova 60 speakers from Radio Shack which had 8 inch woofers. The rating on the individual drivers was 10 watts for the woofer and 15 for the tweeters and had a total rating of 60 watts. Maybe this configuration of speakers could actually handle 40 watts.
Later similar brands would be Yorx or Lloyds or Candle.
Wow, it's amazing that everything is being made in China nowadays. You would think at the least, stereo systems from the 1970's to 1980's and beyond. It's very sad and yet very disappointing.
I had a true 4 channel 8 track and tapes back in the day, and I dreamed of octophonic sound some day, but the dream of 8 speakers, one in each corner of a room never happened!
Finely tuned speaker compartments!
Morse Electronic was bottom of the barrel department store garbage. Repeat would just cycle the same program over and over essentially ignoring the foil splice. 4D is a Hafler circuit i.e. fake synthesized surround sound from a stereo source. Imagine taking an additional speaker and hooking it across the positive terminals of your two main speakers. What you get is that speaker playing the stereo difference (L-R/R-L of the fronts). Add some blend resistors and you can fudge another speaker (albeit with miniscule channel separation) into the mix and call it 'four channel'. So yeah, it's a stereo unit throughout with a twenty cent circuit at the output.
Add reverb and gating and call it Dolby Surround Sound...
The ending of this video was perfect lmao
You might want to rescue the 8-track player, and the record player. That's what I would do.
They could be usable stand-alone, connected to some other amplifier. Thanks for the info
about square-head screws being Canadian built. I do have many square head screws around,
but even as a Canadian, I never saw yet an electronic equipment using these screws.
However, furniture, yes, so this console might have been made for some 1970s Canadian
department store.... Eaton's? Maybe. Or Dupuis Frères which is the French-speaking department
store. Sears and The Bay already had their home brands (Kenmore and Baycrest if I remember
correctly.)
Robertson fasteners are the best imo
The 8-track did not survive the uh, disassembly. The record player however did. It's already been handed off to someone who is currently making a new standalone enclosure for it.
There was no end of imaginative console combo units in the 70s. Some had built-in disco balls, mirrors etc and of course the whole 9 yards - 8track, cassette and 4-speed changer. (You beat me to it .... you've got the disco ball version already).
I didn't mention it or show a photo in the video but there's a model that's a fake fireplace with a compartment hiding an infinite mirrored mini-bar.
wow .... how do you top that ??@@CelGenStudios
You don't You just slip it into a spare room and lie there was always a fireplace in there. @@monicapushkin3274
lol@@CelGenStudios
MSRP in summer of 1978 was $399. Korvette's sold them for $299.
OUCH!
I don’t know if it needs to be repaired, but I hope it does.
Y great grandmother still has hers and in real good condition, tho i never seen her play it.
My mom bought me a morse when I was 14, one of those with a record changer on top with an 8 track tape player in the front. Yes it was garbage, but sounded better when I replaced the speakers.. My first stereo
Well ur mom w 15:33 as a sweet mom who thought u'd like this.
@@raygarafano3633 Yeah. Deceased last June. Thanks
These were sold in Kmart in the 70s. Yes, we knew they were junk also!
Like the Rainman says, "K- Mart sucks"
For an old guy, even total garbage like this somehow brings on some nostalgia in me. I guess it's because as a boy, these crappy consoles were everywhere.
I remove nice Tesla speakers from a similar stereo/fireplace console i found in the trash, good for low power tube guitar amps. This company wash located in Montréal and was still in business in the early 80's.
There can'r be many of those AMC Eagle Wagons left these days. The AMC cars were quirky but I always had a soft spot for them.
No salt in BC means almost no rust. There's still a few puttering around up here.
@@CelGenStudios
Take good care of her.
Se chef-d'oeuvre mérite une très belle restoration
I had a Electrophonic System in the early 1970's, as a kid. It was an am/fm receiver with acoustic suspension speakers (Made in Japan), with a Gerrard turntable. I believe the entire system was bought for about $140.00, in Macy's. It had decent sound quality, and did get many years of use out of it! They dont make anything like that anymore!
i kept all the thing that were given to me only in the 80´s sold a pioneer turntable that when new had a great sound but seemed so frail that i sold it, and a year earlier had bought the Dragon from nakamichi that at the end of 6 monthes started to show how it would stop one day so i sold it also in the 90´s i bought again the DRAGON said to be improved and because i liked the deck if all problems were sorted out it would be a nice deck but it never was the best deck available but aceptable but more of the same maybe 3 years i had it working this only using the best built cassettes at the time like TDKsa,sa-x, AD and AD-X and AR and sony UX,UX-S and UX-PRO the reason why it lasted 3 years working with perfection but had to sell it than i trade a pioneer cassette deck i just had bought 6 monthes earlier for a mint 2002 from BMW 75 model when the 315,etc. were already being sold ,this in 95, they called it the murder car but that was because of the almost destroyd narrow roads that it´s incredible how many more thousands of people didn´t died on the road ,this taking in consideration that youth from several country´s would come to Portugal to our looking like their country 60 years earlier where the beaches were only next to litle villages and in the atlantic coast but in the south the beaches were incredible nice and no portuguese would go there but thousands of people ,very young from several european country´s i remenber being 20 days at a beach and only the fisherman from a litle village were the only portuguese seen most of them were germans ,french or english and also from many other countries, but in the 90´s the 2002 allthough young german kids doubted if it was a bmw when talking to me it was one of the safest cars i drove at high speed, perfect turns it seemed the car was glued to the road but all my life i heard ,"it´s the murderer car"
Ahh, the 70s when just about everything was made out of particle board wrapped in fake wood grain.
I do have a true survivor stereo from the 70s. It’s a rare configuration on it too
Also you read my mind I was gonna say after I saw how much was broken on it, to have fun with a sledgehammer
I had this same unit I loved it all my Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass band records sounded so good
Oh, that thing is cool.
My magnavox console has the "4d" sound. It's a total gimmick. I love seeing this old crap from the 70s though. Nice video.
Edit: I hate to say this is slightly nicer than the Magnavox
That was the height of style back in the 60's. The 70's and 80's revolutionized stereo sound. People forget that most people had very little, no cable, no cell phones, no led tv's. Things were much simpler and unsophisticated. Mynfamilymdidnt have a tv until 1970, and then only black and white, 3 channels, sometimes 4 if we were lucky. No cup holders in your car that was made of real steel and made 12 mpg. Slamming an antique like this is really kind of pointless.
I actually had one these in my early teenage years thought I was ķing of block Lol then as got I older went the separate route sold this to a kid down the street course mine was in better shape
This is a late 70s model. After Morse bought Electrophonic in the mid 70s, it went downhill from there. Early 70s Electrophonic stuff wasn’t that bad. If a piece says, Morse Electro Corp, on the back of it, it’s later 70s crap.
My brother and I had a Zenith from the 70's, and it had the repeat on the 8 track player. All it would do is repeat the track.
You don't know a diamond when you hold it in your hand. DAMN. ionly have 600 8 ttacks and consider myself a newbie at 58. Go ahead and throw it away. Probably a guitar input on the back but z 90 has no clue. Wow thanks for sharing!
Classic 70s design and lack of technology.
If this was Made in Canada, it’s embarrassing to our country.
10:02, I could be wrong, but the stereo unit looks like something you would find in a 70s or 80s home mounted in the wall, most times in the kitchen, as a whole house Stereo Intercom.
Wow... fall-apart-tastic at the end.
She's seen better days that one. I agree with you this was never a good unit to start with. Maybe a nice furniture piece, no different that the very first radios that were on the market back in the day before TV.
Not even nice furniture she knew, it screamed cheap and nasty. Quality cabinet stereo ( sort of) was electro home and Telefunken. For the time being
I get that the quality is really low here, but I gotta say that thing looks pretty awesome. Wow I hope you changed your mind about trashing it!
If the laminate had not all been pulled apart at the corners because of water swelling the wood I absolutely would of kept it.
@@CelGenStudios Understandable. You did immortalize it by getting it out there on the internet, so that's a big plus. It's great that we have youtube to preserve the designs of vintage tech.
1:28 That is like mid 80's Sound Design crap but from 1973 lol
Yeah, I grew up in the "Electrophonic" era. It was always crap. Some was ***slightly*** more solid than this, but it was not real gear. It competed with department store brands, but was lower-tier even at that. Lots of plastic molded gee-gaws that were basically scenic art, just as in this example. Someone traded my father for something, and he ended up with two large Electrophonic bookshelf speakers. The ones dad had were the "better" grade of Electrophonic...but they were still crap. These tried to emulate the Altec segmented horns of the day, as people knew those well from Hi-Fi magazines of the day. Same deal--nothing but fake plastic, and the actual cone tweeter was mounted down below with the woofer. They had no appreciable power handling at all.
In fact, we smoked them with my Sansui AU-717 for laughs. They were a tad bigger than my AR-4x cabinets (which were also sealed box traditional two-ways). But that's where any resemblance ended.
Morse Electrophonic was one of Western Auto's house brands.
The retail price on that "stereo" was about 300.00
Good stereo for a teenager at the time, you can store your records and tapes , you should have taken the time to tighten up and spray the controls, they were garbage when new, electrophonic was a cheap brand at the time, Juliette was another. Lloyds on the other hand was also a low end electronics company but their stuff was pretty good considering what you paid for it. I had a Lloyd’s 8 track player recorder that outlived my 8 track tapes, it had built in tape monitor so you can hear what you were recorded as you were recorded it. Fully adjustable level controls for getting a decent recording. It the rca jacks record in and playback out as a more expensive unit would have. I paid 20$ brand new. I liked the quad receiver 8 track quadraphonic, never saw an 8 track in quad, kind of a waste because the 8 track quality stunk. Getting back to that consoleThey were pressboard crap and tried simulating the more expensive consoles that were popular at the time. Not happening! You should have cleaned it up and make it work before you dragged it away with, what is that? an amc hornet or eagle wagon, that was on the same order as that poor stereo. Kind of made from spare parts from other car manufacturers.
I BEG THE DIFFER ON 8-TRACK QUALITY STINKING I STILL HAVE A MARANTZ SUPERSCOPE ONE OF THE FEW HIGH END 8-TRACK RECORDER DECKS SOUNDS AWSOME
4D was a sound expander or if you will a stereo effect enhancer since these speakers were stuck in this cabinet and it likely gave you an expanded stereo soundstage. MPX of course meant multiplexed FM Stereo which a technical term for what it is and started with FM Stereo broadcasting in the early 60’s in the US. YES it was a heaping pile of crapola when new and way overpriced! I remeber many of their ad campaigns in the early 70’s for Quadraphonic.
Some1tought Morse had something to do with Fairbanks,and Morse, I doubt it. F&M built large engines generators and locomotives.
7:43 I see 8-ohms 6 Watts on that "tweeter"...
Oh, yeah...I hope you tear down that 8-track to reveal what the "Rewind" and other strange buttons do...
The repeat just holds it on its current track and repeats the same track.
Not quite the ending I expected
Dragged by AMC EAGLE for the win!
Never seen rewind before on an 8-track. Of course this is an impossibility with a regular 8-track tape. Maybe in an alternate universe .....
I had a sound design back in the day
A proper mug's eyeful
Finally something I don't feel I absolutely must have. ;)
It would have been hilarious if when you pulled it with your car, the rear bumper came off... haha
This must be how Sanyo developed their marketing tactics. "We believe in flash and lights verses quality". Or something like that.
Woolco was selling this in 1977! (which is kind of shocking, I was expecting earlier) for 400 Canadian dollars which is 1800 dollars in 2023 money. Even then that was pretty bad value.
I had these speakers as stand alone models. Yeah they were tough to listen to he he.
I'd bet it's not real four-channel, it's hafler. that switch probably just lifts the ground on anything attached to the external speaker jacks.
i guess it would look nicer if it wasnt so dinged up. that being said, it wouldnt be so dinged up if it was made out of quality materials.
14:00 cant imagine something built in the last decade at least trying to work in that unit's condition
Far Out Man!
Nothing wrong with disco balls.
Fairbanks Morse was a diesel engine and locomotive builder . Not a dept store .
IT might be exclusively a Canadian thing but in Canada they sold at one point a line of refrigerators under the Gibson name. Nice and quiet too. Briefly owned one.
Electrophic was sold by stores that didn't sell the name brand audio of the day. By making it available to an audience that was likely in the store shopping for other things, and dressing up a pig the company got a certain audience. A lot of folks got sucked it. It took a while for the truth to be admitted to since they weren't that cheap. The truth eventually comes out and thankfully these insults to audio disappeared.
The speakers are worth something