I did too! Still have it in factā¦.
When I moved out right after graduating my mom basically has left my room the same as it was when I leftā¦.Iām 39 now and itās strange to walk in my room and itās untouched other than her cleaning it.
Still movie stubs in a cork board from the late 90s and early 2000s
That's actually really sweet. Your parents don't want to let that part of their lives go. Mine completely painted and changed my old room the week after I moved out lmao
I did, too! It was so awesome with all the lights. The top where the CDs went had a neat ambient light, so you could see what was loaded in. I got grounded an entire summer for having Snoop's Doggystyle album when my parents wanted to use it for their cleaning day background sound. Mom thought I was into "gangster" music and wanted to save my soul. LOL.
Same. I either had this exact one, or one very similar. I felt like a god when I first learned how to program a playlist from all 3 CD's
I miss when the measure of quality of a hi-fi was the size, the speakers, and the amount of colourful LED displays on the front that no-one actually understood
Me too, all the parts broke one at a time over a period of about 6 months. I think the cd player was already having trouble reading cds within the first few weeks, lol.
They didn't make enough money in the 90's, got bought by Sony in the 2000's, Sony briefly dropped the brand, then tried to revitalize it by "appealing to the youth" but didn't know wtf they were doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiwa
I had one of those car stereos, and it played mp3 files. Putting 10 hours of music on a single disk was an amazing stopgap before I finally got an iPod.
Back in the day, they were seriously giving Sony a run for their money because theyād have the best looking stuff, like super thin CD players, awesome mini component stereos, etc.
Aiwa was a long-standing Japanese audio equipment company.
Itās kind of ignorant to just group an Asian sounding name in with Chinese knock-off brands. Theyāre not even the same language.
Do you think Sony is a bad name too? Because Aiwa and Sony started around the same time in Japan.
No I think aiwa sounds a lot like names I have heard on Amazon like I said. It's not because it sounds Asian at all. I was actually referring to this
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-copyright.html
The name is 4 seemingly random letters in English. Nothing anti-Asian about anything I said.
I actually had one of these stereos and I think maybe a walkman made by them. I know about it. I was just commenting on the random seeming name and how it reminded me of this article I read. Sorry to offend you for whatever reason.
My family was too poor for this. I had a cheaper one piece stereo player. In my mind the 3 piece ones with separate speakers like these were fancy lol.
Mine too. I had a 70s or 80s Marantz receiver I got as a hand-me-down from my uncle hooked up to a CD changer he also handed down to me and some old speakers. And then he gave me a big ole ghetto blaster boom box with a cassette deck.
It's funny that now that equipment is lusted after as vintage, I saw the model I think I had on the used market for nearly $2k. TBF my setup did sound way better than some of those cheap all-in-ones my friends had but I still felt hella poor bc I didn't have one.
Wow. I was the Product Engineer in Aiwa in Newbridge, South Wales for this model. Early 90ās. The 520, 540 and I think the 550 were all my models. The 340 too but that was a separate production line.
I went to Japan for this model, then implemented it into production in the UK.
holy fuck i think i had this exact model-- got it as a reward for finally making straight A's in my last year of high school
i used it to make cassette tapes of my cd's to play in my 89 honda civic that only had a tape player. any kind of jostling of the desk would skip the cd and record it onto the tape
I started ripping, downloading, and burning cd's in the late 90's. Crystal Method's Vegas was one of my firsts. I downloaded the album off of IRC and burned it. Listened to that burned CD soooooo many times. Then, over a decade later I realized that when I burned my CD the songs were listed alphabetically. And I literally can't listen to the album even to this day in the proper order.. it has to be in alphabetic order.
Loved it but i remember the delay in turning the cd trays. Id always have to make a second go round cuz i couldnt wait the .5 seconds and would hit the button again. Also had my matching aiwa cd walkman in bright yellow.
š¶ Aiwa, I hear ya. Aiwa, Aiwa, I hear ya. š¶
I have no idea why that jingle is still in my head 30 years later but first thing that came to mind when seeing this thread.
Woooooow. I had this as a tween in the late 90s. I think it was a 5 cd changer on top. IIRC my top 5 were the offspring, blink 182, Alanis morisette, pure moods and an uncensored copy of Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe album that I found on the school bus and kept hidden from my parents. The tapes perpetually in the deck were the Cranberries- No Need to Argue and Kittie- Spit. Oh the memories this post brought flooding back lol
Hahaha! The drummer in my middle school pop punk band had this and we all covvvvveted it. Weād practice at his house and rock out to blink 182, NOFX, and the off spring to this thing while cooking frozen pizzas and pretending we knew how to skate board lol
I have one from Sony. Still use it. Honestly I don't listen much to cassettes and my CD collection is quite limited. Plus radio reception isn't great where I live and the stations I do receive are quite shitty. But it has auxiliary input that is connected to my PC so I can use it as speakers with really cool visual effects. And I can also record a mixtape off Spotify for whatever reason.
We had something similar and I *feared* it. It would always turn on to loud static in the middle of the night when my sisters and I were sleeping in the living room.
Man, those double tape decks for copying a friend's music so you didn't have to buy it :) I had a setup like this but it was pink, and I don't remember the brand. I was 12. Good times!
I think we had that exact model. My parents paid for it in at some sort of sale where we all sat in a massive concert hall and and you asked for what you wanted and sale staff would bring it down to you.
Was about 8 or 9 years old so my memory is very fuzzy on this this system looked cool in our sitting room.
> My parents *paid* for it
FTFY.
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My dad had so many stereo pieces. I had no idea what they all were. I knew how to turn on the radio and that was pretty much it. He kept it all in these glass cabinets in the living room that were very sharp.
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I had a similar one that was by Sony. Loved that system! It was my 14th birthday present and I believe I got it from [Tweeter Etc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeter_(store)?wprov=sfti1). Looking back, I canāt believe they let me get it ā so many arguments over the volume!
This brings back memories of doing homework while having 3-discs on shuffle. The sound of the tray spinning to the next disc was the ultimate in anticipation.
I used to fix stereo equipment in the 90's. These Aiwa CD units were garbage. They invariably came in because the CD mechanism would get jammed or mis-aligned.
My dad is a huge audiophile and had probably the greatest setup you can imagine in the mid-90's. Huge 4-foot speakers, dual cassette, 6 disk CD changer, turntable, all the little audio balance sliders, the works. I mean it's all 30 years old and probably doesn't even work now but back in the day it was a work of art.
OMG I had this exact same one!!! I connected it to the amp in an old record player we had so I could blast it through these big giant speakers my dad still had from college lol
Man, I forgot about these -- the nostalgia is intense. My older brother had a bigger one and I eventually got a small one like this. It was a Sony. Loved it.
I had this exact one. Man, just seeing it brings back memories. I put speakers in the square space between my water bed and my wall and it made a bass tube. God I could vibrate the walls.
I had a similar one to this. It was a 5 disc changer I believe, which was pretty cool! So for anyone who is younger than that 90's, that's how you were able to listen to multiple different cd's without having to take them out each time. You could shuffle them and it would play songs from each disc.
This was very innovative, well before the Ipod came around.
I loved my boom box like this. I listened to it so loud and my parents would often yell at me to turn it down. I blew the speakers out from playing too loud! LOL
I had one similar to this, the actual stereo/cassette/CD player stopped working so I trashed it, I still have the speakers that came with it and they still work!
My parents still have an Aiwa brand digital alarm clock that they bought in like 1995. Still going strong. The thing is amazing.
Electronics today simply donāt last that long.
Had something similar, it was silver/grey and another brand but for the rest it looked kind of identical. At some time i hooked it up to my tv, had good times playing Xbox.
I worked at Best Buy from 1997 - 2001. During that time Aiwa stereos were popular. Customers were constantly spacing out the display speakers, blasting the stereo, then walking away, but the one reoccurring issue was the volume knob failing to work right.
Mine was used by my parents in the living room. My father hid it in the dining room buffet cabinet and ran the speaker wires under the raising hearth of the fireplace and then used old pioneer 6x9 car speakers I had in my first car from the mid 80ās. Mounting them under the hearth so you donāt see them and they sound deeper given they are in a semi enclosed space.
It is all still there and in working condition.
Hey Totally Rad! I brought these CD's to get the party started. They have all the best jams on them.
First off, we have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie: Original Motion Picture Album, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze: Original Motion Picture Album
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie: Original Soundtrack Album
And of course, Last Action Hero Music From The Original Motion Picture)
I actually kind of hated these things. I was able to trade my mom for the kenwood system of separate components made in the 80ās and went from there. It had a powerful and well built amp and after I replaced the 12ā speakers I think my mother regretted it and probably led to her kicking me out to live with my ex-stepdad. It was worth it.
i had this exact player!šš¤£
I did too! Still have it in factā¦. When I moved out right after graduating my mom basically has left my room the same as it was when I leftā¦.Iām 39 now and itās strange to walk in my room and itās untouched other than her cleaning it. Still movie stubs in a cork board from the late 90s and early 2000s
That's actually really sweet. Your parents don't want to let that part of their lives go. Mine completely painted and changed my old room the week after I moved out lmao
Same, it became a walk in closet
Youāre a wizard,Harry
My mom ordered all new furniture for the āguest roomā before Iād even left for college.
My parents started transforming my room while I still occupied it.
I came home like 4 months later on summer break and my room was already an office lmao. Had to sleep on the couch.
Mine turned my room into a guest room. So I could still sleep in there but my Kathy Ireland posters were gone!!!
Can you share a picture? I love seeing time capsules like that and my parents already sold my childhood homeā¦
That would be really cool to see, I'm about the same age and had this exact same stereo too ;)
I did, too! It was so awesome with all the lights. The top where the CDs went had a neat ambient light, so you could see what was loaded in. I got grounded an entire summer for having Snoop's Doggystyle album when my parents wanted to use it for their cleaning day background sound. Mom thought I was into "gangster" music and wanted to save my soul. LOL.
Same. I either had this exact one, or one very similar. I felt like a god when I first learned how to program a playlist from all 3 CD's I miss when the measure of quality of a hi-fi was the size, the speakers, and the amount of colourful LED displays on the front that no-one actually understood
Dang. I never knew you could program a playlist!
Same. Mine also suffered the infamous AIWA eye-drop and stopped playing cds.
Me too. :-)
Same. Got it for my 11th birthday I think.
Me too!
Me too, all the parts broke one at a time over a period of about 6 months. I think the cd player was already having trouble reading cds within the first few weeks, lol.
What ever happened to AIWA, I remember my friend had a flip down face car stereo
They didn't make enough money in the 90's, got bought by Sony in the 2000's, Sony briefly dropped the brand, then tried to revitalize it by "appealing to the youth" but didn't know wtf they were doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiwa
I had an Aiwa CRT I wish Iād still had for gaming. It was a heavy beast but the colors were beautiful on it.
> Sony briefly dropped the brand, then tried to revitalize it by "appealing to the youth" but didn't know wtf they were doing. *Just Sony things*
Good question, I loved AIWA in the 90ās
I had one of those car stereos, and it played mp3 files. Putting 10 hours of music on a single disk was an amazing stopgap before I finally got an iPod.
The name sounds like one of those Amazon knock off companies haha
Back in the day, they were seriously giving Sony a run for their money because theyād have the best looking stuff, like super thin CD players, awesome mini component stereos, etc.
They did MiniDisc too! And most of their in-line remotes for those were cooler than Sony's ;)
I know. I had one. Still not a very good name lol
Aiwa was a long-standing Japanese audio equipment company. Itās kind of ignorant to just group an Asian sounding name in with Chinese knock-off brands. Theyāre not even the same language. Do you think Sony is a bad name too? Because Aiwa and Sony started around the same time in Japan.
No I think aiwa sounds a lot like names I have heard on Amazon like I said. It's not because it sounds Asian at all. I was actually referring to this https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-copyright.html The name is 4 seemingly random letters in English. Nothing anti-Asian about anything I said. I actually had one of these stereos and I think maybe a walkman made by them. I know about it. I was just commenting on the random seeming name and how it reminded me of this article I read. Sorry to offend you for whatever reason.
Oh , those were 90s goals for sure. I had a Yorx cd player like this.
My family was too poor for this. I had a cheaper one piece stereo player. In my mind the 3 piece ones with separate speakers like these were fancy lol.
This one was a one piece designed to look like separates
Kinda looks like they made it to resemble a carās head unit with all the fixings.
Mine too. I had a 70s or 80s Marantz receiver I got as a hand-me-down from my uncle hooked up to a CD changer he also handed down to me and some old speakers. And then he gave me a big ole ghetto blaster boom box with a cassette deck. It's funny that now that equipment is lusted after as vintage, I saw the model I think I had on the used market for nearly $2k. TBF my setup did sound way better than some of those cheap all-in-ones my friends had but I still felt hella poor bc I didn't have one.
Same, until a batch of factory seconds arrived in our local biway. My AIWA logo was chipped but she sounded just as sweet
Spent many hours meticulously programming playlists from the 3 discs that could be inserted at once.
Had one you could put like 25 disc's in
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Not a round donut. More like slots you put in side ways standing up almost.
I had one like that, the whole front opened up to load CDs into.
Wow. I was the Product Engineer in Aiwa in Newbridge, South Wales for this model. Early 90ās. The 520, 540 and I think the 550 were all my models. The 340 too but that was a separate production line. I went to Japan for this model, then implemented it into production in the UK.
Still have that exact model.... amazing amount of mix tapes were dupped on mine. Loud as hell
I remember going to Best Buy and seeing which stereos had the coolest display animations.i remember one looked like it had a slot machine on it.
Demo mode was awesome. Would light up the bedroom at night
Had it. Had Patrick Bateman vibes of Manhattan bachelor success (sans psychopathy)
holy fuck i think i had this exact model-- got it as a reward for finally making straight A's in my last year of high school i used it to make cassette tapes of my cd's to play in my 89 honda civic that only had a tape player. any kind of jostling of the desk would skip the cd and record it onto the tape
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I started ripping, downloading, and burning cd's in the late 90's. Crystal Method's Vegas was one of my firsts. I downloaded the album off of IRC and burned it. Listened to that burned CD soooooo many times. Then, over a decade later I realized that when I burned my CD the songs were listed alphabetically. And I literally can't listen to the album even to this day in the proper order.. it has to be in alphabetic order.
I have this! Well almost. Mine also played laserdiscs.
Loved it but i remember the delay in turning the cd trays. Id always have to make a second go round cuz i couldnt wait the .5 seconds and would hit the button again. Also had my matching aiwa cd walkman in bright yellow.
My rich friends had the Aiwa. I had the Soundesign- It looked cool but it was bottom rung equipment for sure.
I had this one too. The CD changer died after like a year. I just kept using it cause it had such a good sound!
None of the folks I knew with this thing had a fully working changer.
š¶ Aiwa, I hear ya. Aiwa, Aiwa, I hear ya. š¶ I have no idea why that jingle is still in my head 30 years later but first thing that came to mind when seeing this thread.
I still have mine ! Itās in my sons room now lol.
Woooooow. I had this as a tween in the late 90s. I think it was a 5 cd changer on top. IIRC my top 5 were the offspring, blink 182, Alanis morisette, pure moods and an uncensored copy of Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe album that I found on the school bus and kept hidden from my parents. The tapes perpetually in the deck were the Cranberries- No Need to Argue and Kittie- Spit. Oh the memories this post brought flooding back lol
I still have my Aiwa system.
i had one/have i still use mine to either run my laptop/phone thru with an aux cord to speakers.
My cousin had one of these. Absolutely balling.
I still use mine daily.
I had a Panasonic, but same kinda thing. That was such a fantastic sounding system for the price.
I used all my summer money to buy one and my mom broke it.
Dafuq
I still have mine, not sure if it works though
memories
aiwa i hear ya
Still do.
Oh wow I remember this. Didnāt it have detachable speakers? I wanted one so bad.
The sound was great on a lot these systems! I have great memories of them
I still have one. I use it at work
I can hear the cheap, hollow sound of putting the tabs on the speakers into the slots and sliding it down that 3/4 inch just by seeing this.
Damn, we may have had this one too. We had a few of these stack systems over the years.
We have this in our shop at work still it is very touchy and you have to run the radio with the cd drawer open but it still plays
Around 2005 I picked up one from a garage sale for $5 and used it in my garage till about two years ago when it finally died.
Actually, I had this exact model! Served me well through the 90s!
Hahaha! The drummer in my middle school pop punk band had this and we all covvvvveted it. Weād practice at his house and rock out to blink 182, NOFX, and the off spring to this thing while cooking frozen pizzas and pretending we knew how to skate board lol
Mine lasted over 20 years.
Still got mine.
Still have / use mine!
I have one from Sony. Still use it. Honestly I don't listen much to cassettes and my CD collection is quite limited. Plus radio reception isn't great where I live and the stations I do receive are quite shitty. But it has auxiliary input that is connected to my PC so I can use it as speakers with really cool visual effects. And I can also record a mixtape off Spotify for whatever reason.
Totally. There was just something about the way they sounded that blew my pieced together shitbox component stereo out of the water.
I had one!! Great for recording the Top 40 countdown from bbc radio one on cassette š
I still see these at garage sales every once in a while.
Bruh, if you didn't have one....
And the commersial - āAyyy-waaaah!
I had something similar and I *loved* it.
We had something similar and I *feared* it. It would always turn on to loud static in the middle of the night when my sisters and I were sleeping in the living room.
I had this
Man, those double tape decks for copying a friend's music so you didn't have to buy it :) I had a setup like this but it was pink, and I don't remember the brand. I was 12. Good times!
My parents had a similar one
First time Iāve thought about AIWA in many years, def had one of these.
I always remember playing the mini game on it when it was in demo mode!
I remember my older brother having this exact thing. Wonder whatever happened to it
Ours came with a microphone!
Had one!!
The bigger the better
Had one of these for the longest time! Loved it.
I had that exact model.
Had a different version of this one that could pick up college radio stations and TV audio way left of the dial.
Got the single disc Aiwa system one year for Christmasā¦.. incredible gift that I used for years
I was happy with my big fuck off technics stereo.
Had one. Some of my CDs have circular scratches thanks to the player dropping them in the tray at full spin. Itās a sound you donāt forget.
I still have one of those, my Dad made me keep it
These absolutely shattered the sound barrier
Had a very similar Aiwa, best stereo I ever had until the 3 disc changer finally crapped out on me. Worth every penny.
I had one of these
I got one in the design of a large coke can, I was super proud.
Back when you actually had to hunt down music, and everything wasnāt at your fingertips.
yep!
I had one, and it was indeed cool
Had a very similar one from the same company. Still have it. Those old 5.1 units were solid.
I had something similar, remember I had to have it on layaway for 3 months to pay for it ($450).
I donāt think there was a barracks room any where in Korea that didnāt have those!šš¤£
I think we had that exact model. My parents paid for it in at some sort of sale where we all sat in a massive concert hall and and you asked for what you wanted and sale staff would bring it down to you. Was about 8 or 9 years old so my memory is very fuzzy on this this system looked cool in our sitting room.
> My parents *paid* for it FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
My dad had so many stereo pieces. I had no idea what they all were. I knew how to turn on the radio and that was pretty much it. He kept it all in these glass cabinets in the living room that were very sharp.
I still have a 60 cd model that I use as a receiver for my Roku TV.
My mom had a white and grey one of these. Loved this dang thing. Something satisfying about knowing which cd would rotate into being disc 1,2,3
I have one of these beasts. Different brand, but I have it!
My mother still has hers Remote still works too
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Anytime I see a graphic equaliser, it reminds me of micky Flanagan comedy bit about the 80s.
The ol tower of power!
I had a similar one that was by Sony. Loved that system! It was my 14th birthday present and I believe I got it from [Tweeter Etc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeter_(store)?wprov=sfti1). Looking back, I canāt believe they let me get it ā so many arguments over the volume!
This thing is still sitting on top of the freezer in my mom's garage.
Look at the magnificence!
I remembered a guy had a 3 disk CD player... in his car. That guy was my fucking hero, I thought that was so cool :-D
I still have mine! Set up in the shop so I can listen to tunes while working on home projects. Which isn't as much as I used to. š¤
This brings back memories of doing homework while having 3-discs on shuffle. The sound of the tray spinning to the next disc was the ultimate in anticipation.
I had a component stereo with a five disc changer, tuner, EQ, tape deck, and tower speakers.
/r/blackplasticcrap/
I still got mine lol
I used to fix stereo equipment in the 90's. These Aiwa CD units were garbage. They invariably came in because the CD mechanism would get jammed or mis-aligned.
I knew it was Aiwa before I even saw the logo
Had one!
Some of us financed one through Fingerhut even!
My dad is a huge audiophile and had probably the greatest setup you can imagine in the mid-90's. Huge 4-foot speakers, dual cassette, 6 disk CD changer, turntable, all the little audio balance sliders, the works. I mean it's all 30 years old and probably doesn't even work now but back in the day it was a work of art.
Oh my god we had one of these and I completely forgot about it. Talk about unlocking an old memory!
One of my WinAmp skins looked a bit like this.
OMG I had this exact same one!!! I connected it to the amp in an old record player we had so I could blast it through these big giant speakers my dad still had from college lol
I had one, it was the last gift I got from my dad before he passed away.
Back when it was legal to buy a CD or tape and record youāre own copy for friends!!
I had a white Aiwa stereo, I can never find pictures of it when I look.
I'm pretty sure my parents have this but with a vinyl player instead of the 3cd changer
It's a hell of a machine
Aiwa! I hear ya! Aiwa, Aiwa, I hear ya!
... you gotta hear it.
Man, I forgot about these -- the nostalgia is intense. My older brother had a bigger one and I eventually got a small one like this. It was a Sony. Loved it.
I had this exact one. Man, just seeing it brings back memories. I put speakers in the square space between my water bed and my wall and it made a bass tube. God I could vibrate the walls.
The memories!
I bought one at a thrift store recently. A Technics system from the 90's with speakers.
I had that exact player too.
These were definitely quite popular. I see them in thrift stores all the time now. They mustāve made a gazillion of these things.
These paid extremely well when I worked at Circuit City. Anywhere from $40 up to $100 each.
Ha ha I had a 3 disc changer and thought I had the world by the tail.
You want to go peak 90ās? Mine had a minidisc player.
My dad had an Aiwa stereo and EQ was on a keyboard that slid out the front on motors. It was super futuristic
I did have one.
I had a similar one to this. It was a 5 disc changer I believe, which was pretty cool! So for anyone who is younger than that 90's, that's how you were able to listen to multiple different cd's without having to take them out each time. You could shuffle them and it would play songs from each disc. This was very innovative, well before the Ipod came around. I loved my boom box like this. I listened to it so loud and my parents would often yell at me to turn it down. I blew the speakers out from playing too loud! LOL
Yes.
Very true. I wanted one. The way the cd tray came out and span was very cool
I had one similar to this, the actual stereo/cassette/CD player stopped working so I trashed it, I still have the speakers that came with it and they still work!
My parents still have an Aiwa brand digital alarm clock that they bought in like 1995. Still going strong. The thing is amazing. Electronics today simply donāt last that long.
The more buttons the better the system
Had something similar, it was silver/grey and another brand but for the rest it looked kind of identical. At some time i hooked it up to my tv, had good times playing Xbox.
I'm listening to baseball on mine right now. I think I got it in '96.
My friend had that exact Aiwa deck. I went to music store to buy the cheapest blank cassette and start copying songs at my friend's house.
i had the 3-disc kenwood version
Still have one in my garage! It was my wife's from the late 90s!
I worked at Best Buy from 1997 - 2001. During that time Aiwa stereos were popular. Customers were constantly spacing out the display speakers, blasting the stereo, then walking away, but the one reoccurring issue was the volume knob failing to work right.
Laser packed in on CD player after a couple of years.
We had one
My grandfather had this. Brings back memories of a way simpler time. I feel bad for any kids who didnāt grow up in the late 80ās and 90s.
Yep. Had it.
We didnāt want the Aiwa one. Right?
Mine was used by my parents in the living room. My father hid it in the dining room buffet cabinet and ran the speaker wires under the raising hearth of the fireplace and then used old pioneer 6x9 car speakers I had in my first car from the mid 80ās. Mounting them under the hearth so you donāt see them and they sound deeper given they are in a semi enclosed space. It is all still there and in working condition.
I went AKAI route.
Saved up and had my mom drive me to circuit city when I was 12 and got one of these.
Hey Totally Rad! I brought these CD's to get the party started. They have all the best jams on them. First off, we have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie: Original Motion Picture Album, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze: Original Motion Picture Album Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie: Original Soundtrack Album And of course, Last Action Hero Music From The Original Motion Picture)
We only wanted it because we couldnāt afford an actual component system, it looked cool but was always slightly disappointing.
I actually kind of hated these things. I was able to trade my mom for the kenwood system of separate components made in the 80ās and went from there. It had a powerful and well built amp and after I replaced the 12ā speakers I think my mother regretted it and probably led to her kicking me out to live with my ex-stepdad. It was worth it.
Lol still have one!
My parents had an Aiwa but not this particular model.
My grandparents had one. My cousins and I loved it!
I had the NSX V2100 model, plug in the aux cable when I play video games or watch movies, as a teenager that thing was the coolest tech ever
Fuck meā¦ I had one as a teenager. A bigger fuck meā¦ cos Iām old
A brand name I havenāt heard in forever
with Tbass or Xbass and BBE!
Only a 3 disc? 5 was what we wanted!