Memories
The temptation of the unfussy all-in-one is still very much with us today.
Although you can certainly pick individual high fidelity components to configure better sounding systems, great experiences of just listening to music (the important bit?) were indeed possible with this.
Got some fond memories of your first music centre or portable ghettoblaster?
Centres of music
A Beocenter 3500, from Bang and Olufsen - a hybrid of the Beogram 3000 automatic turntable and 40 watts per channel Beomaster 3000 stereo receiver. This well-pre served example’s tonearm is bereft of cartridge. B&O special cartridges are difficult (read: ‘expensive') to obtain nowadays. Hence the modest £40 asking price...
A fairly comprehensive Winthronics President music centre (£20).
As can be seen, this imposing object is also capable of playing those late and unlamented lumps of tape - in addition to the usual records, cassettes and radio.
Whatever you will find at an Audiojumble ...