rank arena RA18mx

[nz boom]

look at the lines on this baby made in hong kong but with hi end japan quality foam rolled speakers real tweeters 18w power consumption more like a 100 this thing sounds really good

 

[Beosystem10]

Brilliant stuff there! I have a couple of Bush Arena items; a turntable which is a rebadged Thorens mounted to a motorboard that carries the Arena name right by the Rank-Bush-Murphy gong icon and an integrated amplifier which was made in house by Bush in their Plymouth factory shortly before Rank bought the rights to use the Bush and Murphy names. These later ones like yours were all built into polystyrene cabinets rather than the wood used in the previous models that carried the Arena brand (Arena was to Bush as Lexus was to Toyota), but fortunately as you've found with that one, the component quality remained surprisingly high, a bit like finding that the Corolla you just bought from a dodgy 1980s bombsite horse trader had a Lexus V8 and all the trimmings hidden under its bunnet. A Q-box, I like that idea!

 

[devol-toni]

Yay, it looks like a serious machine..

 

[Fatdog]

Mmm, those knobs.

 

[oldskool69]

I've got the Eaton-VIKING twin! Nice box pretty good sound. Congrats! (I'll post mine later.)

 

[oldskool69]

OK...here is mine! Listening to it now!

Eaton-VIKING SRC-5393

Yours definitely edges it on looks though.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Oh yeah, that is real nice!