Lasky's own brand name?

[Tenormaz]

Hello I need help remembering a name. I bought my first hifi equipment from Laskys back in the early 70's. The amp and headphones were Laskys own brand but I can't for the life of me remember what they were called. Can anyone help. it's driving me insane The amp was a something LA1700 I know the amp was a rebranded Audiotronic LA1700 made in Japan

[John10b]

Audiotronics (Audio-Tronics) was used by Lasky's if that’s any help?
John

[John10b]

Edit, sorry you already said the name Audiotronics .
John

[electronicskip]

Was it Plustron?s plustronics? sort of rings a bell.

[G6Tanuki]

I bought some Teleton gear from Lasky's - I also remember them selling audio gear under the "Seoum" [or SeOum?] brand-name.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/seoum_sa_4130.html

[GrimJosef]

Plustronics were calculators, it seems http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/plustronics.html (Lasky's might have sold them).

I can't get Realistic out of my head, but that was Tandy's own-brand of course.

Cheers,

GJ

[Dai Corner]

On page 120 of this scan of Everyday Electronics Feb 1974 there is an advert from Laskys including a list of audio brands they then sold. It might jog somebody's memory?

https://www.americanradiohistory.com...cs-1974-02.pdf

[Ted Kendall]

Definitely Audiotronic - they sold a very pretty 35wpc amplifier which I lusted after at the time (LA-4000 I think) - ended up with a Texan...

[Hartley118]

According to Alan Sugar’s Autobiography ‘What You see is what you get’, Audiotronics was a public company formed in the1970s from a merger between Laskys, G W Smith, and Eagle Products.

Martin

[Tenormaz]

Thanks guys great response. Audiotronics is definitely in the mix but not quite the answer. The everyday electronics mag was great Dal and yes Ted I remember the LA 4000, I wanted one too. I bought this equipment in mid 75 by then I'm thinking they must have rebranded. I had the LA 1700 there was a LA4000 plus a LA1700x and LA4000x. They were great value for money budget amps. I've seen pictures of the Audiotronics amps and they are identical, but I'm pretty sure mine was called something else.

[Ted Kendall]

Figures - Laskys absorbed G W Smith, as I recall, and the Adlers had been dealing with Japanese suppliers for a decade by then.

[Dai Corner]

Originally Posted by Ted Kendall

Figures - Laskys absorbed G W Smith, as I recall, and the Adlers had been dealing with Japanese suppliers for a decade by then.

Yes, they merged in 1972 as Audiotronics Holdings Ltd (hence the brand name) but using Laskys as the trading name.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com...h=%22laskys%22

[jamesperrett]

Originally Posted by GrimJosef

Plustronics were calculators, it seems http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/plustronics.html (Lasky's might have sold them).

Plustron sold all sorts of electronics. I remember having a catalogue of theirs in the 70's which included a TV/radio/cassette combination.

Another brand that I think I only ever saw at Laskys was Skywood which was the brand of my first multimeter.

[Craig Sawyers]

Eventually Comet bought Laskys. And thereby hangs a Wikipedia tale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Group

[Edward Huggins]

I knew old Ken Lasky. He could be quite ruthless - but was certainly perspicatious enough to see that, even by the early 1970s, alliances between the stronger "Tottetenham Court Road" retailers was needed to ensure their longer-term survvial.
But in the end, where are they all now.....

[unitaudio]

Was it Prinzsound?

Regards,
Paul

[Station X]

Dixons.

[Hartley118]

I remember that the Laskys name was revived around a decade ago as an online electrical retailer. I bought a carpet cleaner from them and they were OK. Then they went bust in 2012.

Martin

[electronicskip]

I bought my very first CD player from Laskys in Cheltenham, cost me £200 but it was actually a double cd drawer which was rare at the time.

[stacman]

Remembering this thread, SWMBO, was sorting some old photos out this weekend, an an old EE catalogue was in there, or the remnants of one, a couple of pages of ads caught my eye, is the info in these?
Regards, Alan