"Mikkel Breiler" wrote

I am continually impressed and sad by the fact that mags like HFN have
many ads for
second hand equipment and rarely any Technics is offered. Given some of it
is highly
sought after I have resorted to thinking that they never did penetrate
into England
by much, mostly because it was not kosher to buy japanese if you were in
England and
need a stereo component. I am inclined to believe that sales people would
turn you on
to english brands, or failing that a european/american brand rather than
something
from Japan.

I don't agree with this at all. Back in the 1970s there was a lot of
Technics equipment sold, just as there was plenty of Akai, Pioneer etc. If
anything it was the American and, to a lesser extent, continental European
brands that were harder to get hold of.

If Technics stuff is hard to come by second hand now, I suggest it's because
it was junked when it was replaced by something newer. Technics was never a
prestige brand, so it never had the second-hand value of, say, Quad or Leak.

David.