In article ,
David Looser wrote:
It was a triumph of style over function, designed to appeal to those
(who are still with us today, of course) to whom what a HiFi system
looks like is more important than what it sounds like.

In one. The ideal, of course, is something which works well *and* looks
good.

And you have to admit it does look "special".

Yes. I actually have one. Was given it broken. But don't use it. It just
looks nice on a shelf. Along with a Nagra. Which does work well.

The reason it was broken? It belonged to a mate who was so fed up with the
faults in performance I described earlier, that he through it out of a
window...

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*How many roads must a man travel down before he admits he is lost? *

Dave Plowman London SW
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