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G6Tanuki · 21st Sep 2018, 9:11 pm

Fascinating... and enlightening! I wonder what the 'internal market' would have been for such gear in the Soviet times? I'm thinking it would have been more for recording-studios, colleges/universities, broadcasters and such rather than the domestic consumer.

I've always been intrigued by the way the Soviet-bloc nations adapted Western [and sometimes Japanese] designs to incorporate whatever technology was available locally. Sometimes they were brilliant kludges, othertimes horrible,obsolete labour-intensive mashups.

The "Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg" - (Машприборинторг) distributed Soviet-made electronics/optical stuff to the West - I well remember their ads for 'vega' radios in the 1960s.

21st Sep 2018, 9:11 pm	#23
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,998	Re: Soviet HI-FI Fascinating... and enlightening! I wonder what the 'internal market' would have been for such gear in the Soviet times? I'm thinking it would have been more for recording-studios, colleges/universities, broadcasters and such rather than the domestic consumer. I've always been intrigued by the way the Soviet-bloc nations adapted Western [and sometimes Japanese] designs to incorporate whatever technology was available locally. Sometimes they were brilliant kludges, othertimes horrible,obsolete labour-intensive mashups. The "Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg" - (Машприборинторг) distributed Soviet-made electronics/optical stuff to the West - I well remember their ads for 'vega' radios in the 1960s.