regardless of how you feel about the format, you have to agree this baby is schweet outboard Digital and Analog trannies, DAC, and it makes great cassette tapes too!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=300297486870

Very beautiful. I love its retro-look. Also it looks just like new.
Tanx for sharing.

as someone who once knew AIWA only by the company's current products, without seeing actual pictures of a gem like this, if one had told me that the company actually was once capable of making products of this caliber, i likely would have been ROFLing my ass off. but, the truth does tend to stand on it's own:











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OMG, stuwster!! just imagine a superdeck like this in your care!! it would be a pretty damned good salve for the pain of the loss of your old friend, the SAE C-101, eh? i mean, look at it! it's built more like a TOTL CDP of the day than a cassette deck!! i'd want one, if not for my stalwart, unshakable loyalty to PIONEER, and the accompanying pride of having an A/A/V system nearly completely comprised of some of that firm's finest products...

You got that right folks, John this beauty was calling me by name (stuwster take me to AZ, I'll make you sooooo Happy!!!)

655 Euros is about $1100 + shipping would be about $150, but, Damn it looked good!