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24th Jul 2020, 11:17 pm | #21 | |
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Re: Amstrad Speakers. Value?
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Just as the strobe didn't work, I suspect the LED barometric level indicators were highly suspect. All that said, I was grateful to Lord Sugar when he brought out the PCW word processors in 1985, and I was delighted with mine for quite some time. B
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25th Jul 2020, 8:28 am | #22 |
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Re: Amstrad Speakers. Value?
I remember those speakers all too well... and we used to be ordering replacement drive units like there was no tomorrow as customers 'blew' them up.
We saved old ones and connected them up in series across... well you work it |
25th Jul 2020, 12:44 pm | #23 |
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Re: Amstrad Speakers. Value?
Not sure if it was this system that went with these, but apparently there was an Amstrad tower that had the back screwed and the sides glued. Later versions had the sides screwed and the back glued. However there was a version 1 1/2 that had both the back AND the sides glued. Amstrad supplied a Mk2 cabinet and the instructions to smash the old one to get inside....
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25th Jul 2020, 2:21 pm | #24 | |
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25th Jul 2020, 2:25 pm | #25 |
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Re: Amstrad Speakers. Value?
All glue and Sellotape was my description of many of these systems. Those tower systems did do an impressive sound to light display though with the illuminated dials and meters being fed from a weedy unregulated supply... well I say weedy, it was big enough for customers to repeatedly blow up both the speakers and the TDA chips they used in the outputs.
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26th Jul 2020, 2:35 pm | #26 |
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Re: Amstrad Speakers. Value?
A quick scan of ebay shows Amstrad speakers go for between £10 and £20 .
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31st Jul 2020, 9:01 pm | #27 |
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No I had a pair of those speakers and the so called hi-fi unit to go with it. it sounded like a cheap 60's portable, awful sound and build quality, Amstrad had no idea about hi-fi
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31st Jul 2020, 11:36 pm | #28 |
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Re: Amstrad Speakers. Value?
As the OP hasn't been back for a while, and has the information requested, there is little point in continuing this thread.
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