Before the Walkman.....the UHER CR-134

[bibox]

The CR-134 was a mobile, battery-pwered stereo cassette recorder/player from the mid-70's. The main use was for portable high-quality recording similar to the Nakamichi 350/550 or Marantz PMD's except it was even smaller. The CR-134 was not that much bigger than a car audio head-unit. They did get used in cars too. The ultimate set-up for your BMW 2002tii in '75 would have been this deck and an ADS 2001 bi-amplified portable speaker system. You would have had ~$1000+ into the gear and quite possibly were in the music industry to justify the cost. I'd love to find a CR-134 to go with my 2001 system but not that many came into the US. The ones that did are either basket cases now or priced safely out of my reach.

 

[walkgirl]

Looks like a car radio :sin:

 

[bibox]

Looks like a car radio :sin:

It does but it's smaller. The cassette loads end-in rather than face-in.

 

[baddboybill]

Looks like a car radio :sin:

It does but it's smaller. The cassette loads end-in rather than face-in.

But the cassette always went end in

 

[bibox]

Looks like a car radio :sin:

It does but it's smaller. The cassette loads end-in rather than face-in.

But the cassette always went end in

Not following you.

 

[baddboybill]

Just that with most car stereos the end of cassette always went in 1st.

 

[walkgirl]

Maybe it is a car radio for narrow cars!

 

[bibox]

Just that with most car stereos the end of cassette always went in 1st.

You could have won a bar bet on that one as my brain appeared to be elsewhere recently.

 

[zyklon69]

The CR-134 was a mobile, battery-pwered stereo cassette recorder/player from the mid-70's. The main use was for portable high-quality recording similar to the Nakamichi 350/550 or Marantz PMD's except it was even smaller. The CR-134 was not that much bigger than a car audio head-unit. They did get used in cars too. The ultimate set-up for your BMW 2002tii in '75 would have been this deck and an ADS 2001 bi-amplified portable speaker system. You would have had ~$1000+ into the gear and quite possibly were in the music industry to justify the cost. I'd love to find a CR-134 to go with my 2001 system but not that many came into the US. The ones that did are either basket cases now or priced safely out of my reach.

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Lulz,A Sony TC-30 rigged off the volume pot to a rockford fosgate amp of that era would easily blow that pos and ADS into another ballpark.Uher is known as a courtroom recorder and not the audio world.

 

[bibox]

Lulz,A Sony TC-30 rigged off the volume pot to a rockford fosgate amp of that era would easily blow that pos and ADS into another ballpark. Uher is known as a courtroom recorder and not the audio world.

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Are you referring to the single 2x15W booster amp Fosgate made then? Must be 'cause Rockford-Fosgate didn't exist in 1975, only Jim Fosgate's company. Lulz.