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Originally Posted by stevehertz
It's interesting and amazing to see the sets that people think are their best looking ones.
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Isn't it just! Does seem that for quite a proportion of us here, as for many people when it comes to music, time and place and association are what inspire lasting devotion to a radio. As far as I can tell, how I feel towards a particular set doesn't affect, or doesn't much affect, my impression of its visual qualities or lack of them. This one, for instance, a Proton 300 from 1982, is something of a household favourite through being, to my ears (I'd love to see the results of Mark Hennessy putting one through his objective tests), the best sounding self-contained radio I've heard. It's also arguably the ugliest I've seen: its nickname "Brezhnev's microwave" seems well earned.
Paul