Re: Soviet HI-FI
Not exactly hi-fi, but my pride and joy when I was in my early teens was a VEF204 multi-band receiver. Great set, complete with clunky turret-tuner style wavechange switch. The mains adaptor was something to behold. Roughly the size of a PP9, it was housed in a cardboard box - I kid you not - with no insulation anywhere inside.
Not to be outdone, my Dad bought its bigger brother with VHF as well. It had an external speaker socket, so when he tired of it I connected a 12" cabinet to it and listened to Alan Freeman's Saturday show every week - fantastic sound quality leading my friends to think it was a full-blown hi-fi system.
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