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Old 19th Aug 2014, 9:57 am   #7
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Default Re: Industrial design - East German style:

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Originally Posted by turretslug View Post
Similarly, the Sony Walkman impresses more than the Kudelski/Nagra IV in terms of precision mass production. The E52 and Nagra IV may be delightful pieces of engineering-for-the-sake-of-it jewellery but not really relevant to contemporary consumers.
I find it a bit odd to describe the Nagra IV-S thus. It's strictly functional and scarcely a piece of mass production. Very few reel-to-reel machines are relevant to contemporary consumers.
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