Aiwa systems good or bad
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Compared to? Aiwa was mass-produced, lo-fidelity made to a price to sell high volume. It was neither good nor bad. It wasn't high fidelity.
robbie1982 said:
they were aimed at a particular market, all in one system with big thumpy bass, for not a lot of money , lots of people wanted that, more so the young uns for the bedrooms,
nothing wrong with that, if thats what you want, not my cup of tea,
Compared to some of the all in one systems of today my father still has his aiwa seperates system had it for 25 years and the sound i would say is better than some of the technics stuff of more recent times
Although I never had one, the cassettes always seemed well liked.
The couple of times I heard one of their all in one things it sounded alright not great.
The couple of times I heard one of their all in one things it sounded alright not great.
My Dad had an Aiwa system in the 80s too (he kept the review from WHF mag too) and sold it on eBay a couple of years back for £115! Was worth in total about £1200 from new.
bigfish786
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i bought one in the late 90's. it was a 5 speaker surround system. cost me 500 quid. it was trully awful. i had bought it to replace the sony sytem that my toddler daughter had wrecked.i had it back in the box within a few hours, and back at the shop. i traded it for a technics midi system which was impressive in comparison.and 100 quid cheaper. back then i had a massive cassette collection, which the technics did a great job with.back in the late 80's and early nineties i had only ever heard a 3 hifi setups, technics, pioneer and akai. and to be honest i don't think any of them sounded any good. my sony cost me 550 quid in the late 80's which was a lot of money, and not that good.i think the limitations was with the speakers that came with those type of systems. they weren't that good at all.
i listened to systems like that for years till a friend showed me his seperates system and kef floorstanders.. i was literally blown away. i can't thank him enough for introducing me to decent sounding music. its been a passion ever since.
i listened to systems like that for years till a friend showed me his seperates system and kef floorstanders.. i was literally blown away. i can't thank him enough for introducing me to decent sounding music. its been a passion ever since.
chebby said:
They certainly did.....I owned the AD-F 360, which held its own with decks at double it's price of £109.
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I owned one & i must admit it was horrible. I cnt imagine listening to that now.. But at the time I thought it was the bomb. Still got it in my family home aboard.. :rofl:
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I had an Aiwa midi system in the very early nineties which had twin cassette decks a cd player and was finished in what i thought at the time was a very classy 'champagne' gold colour uuurgh. i had many many great stoned afternoons and evenings listening to it. It certainly pumped out some bass (if nothing else) which suited my tastes of that era perfectly and it lasted a good 10 years until inevitably the cd packed up. It was of its time,
I always got Aiwa and Akai mixed up, whatever happened to Akia, they seemed to do more on seperates such as amps, tuners, tape decks while Awia was midi towers
Tear Drop said:
Presumably you're not very old and only remember the Aiwa of the last 10-15 years. Before that, they were quite a different brand with a range of highly-regarded budget/mid-range separates, particularly their cassette decks.
I had one also, before I bought a Kenwood separates system. It sounded great in my small flat at the time, but I realised that it was awfull and it was given to my blind grandfather. He used it well for CDs and the stored radio stations, and for listening to his audio books. He said it was great for speech and vocalists. Who am I To argue as his hearing was far better tuned than mine.
MUSICRAFT said:The_Lhc said:
Hi The _Lhc
Aiwa system are just fine
Thanks
Rick @ Musicraft
Yes I seem to recall you saying they're as good as Chord electronics, I still don't know what you're on about, however based on the chords I've heard that isn't saying much.
This system was crap, you'll just have to live with that, like I did for the best part of ten years.
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