Electronic brands that were popular in the 80s and 90s, Magnavox, Pioneer, etc

[ChaliHo]

I remember when Magnavox came out with a new color TV it was top of the line, now Magnavox is some cheap electronics stuff similar to Craig.

They were popular for a long time in the 80s and 90s, same with Pioneer, Panasonic, Phillips, Sharp, Zenith etc

I remember getting a Sanyo version of the walkman from sony, I had a CD player from Sharp and RCA.

Sony been around and still going strong.

[gwg77]

Blaupunkt
Kenwood
Alpine


Anyone remember flipping through a Crutchfield catalog for car stereos?


Aiwa shelf stereo systems were 90s

[MyGhettoFantasy]

Apparently they are still in business.

[ChaliHo]

Apparently they are still in business.

Man I remember that Maxell commercial that is one of the GOAT commercials, the 80s and 90s had some of the best commercials.

[ChaliHo]

Blaupunkt
Kenwood
Alpine


Anyone remember flipping through a Crutchfield catalog for car stereos?


Aiwa shelf stereo systems were 90s

lol I used to look at the Crutchfield catalog on the chitter

Aiwa lol I remember that I had a stereo, I bought it from Circuit city.

Its crazy how so many of these once top hot brands are now nothing burgers in the electronics industry

[MyGhettoFantasy]

Man I remember that Maxell commercial that is one of the GOAT commercials, the 80s and 90s had some of the best commercials.

They don't make em like they used to brah.

[freeburn]

Blaupunkt
Kenwood
Alpine


Anyone remember flipping through a Crutchfield catalog for car stereos?


Aiwa shelf stereo systems were 90s

I ordered a head unit from crutch field a few years ago

I don't order from them too often but I still always check their audio selection whenever I'm looking to buy audio stuff lol

[FelixTheCat1919]

RCA was huge

now all it stands for is Really Crappy Appliance

[MajorTendonitis]

Had 2 GM120 pioneer amplifiers, I believe that was their first gen. There was little else out there in the way of outboard quality amps at the time .
From memory I believe I had two pairs of 6907 6x9’s hooked to them , as we had no knowledge of subwoofers in the late 70’s , early 80’s .
I also had pioneers cassette deck and 7 band EQ . They were actually beautifully made in their day , and used quality components.

Kenwood always seemed to be cutting edge at the time and had more features than any manufacture in car audio, but also the worst track record for reliability.

I also had a Panasonic car audio system that wasn’t too bad . This one year they released this powered EQ , and I’d run several of them to different speakers .

My first car cd player was a Yamaha . Loved the red lights , but it used a proprietary cartridge system to hold the cd .


Those were the good ol days I swear

[SirFapsAIot]

Emerson

[2011change]

I alot of those players have been bought out by another foreign company. RCA for example is now a Chinese company. Sharp, a Japanese company, sold their license (brand new) for a few years to HiSense. So you would see a Sharp TV but it was made by HiSense, I believe Sharp ended it and is now making TVs again.

Electronics were built much better back then, now its now cheaply made.

[FelixTheCat1919]

RCA was huge

now all it stands for is Really Crappy Appliance

[SirFapsAIot]

I alot of those players have been bought out by another foreign company. RCA for example is now a Chinese company. Sharp, a Japanese company, sold their license (brand new) for a few years to HiSense. So you would see a Sharp TV but it was made by HiSense, I believe Sharp ended it and is now making TVs again.

Electronics were built much better back then, now its now cheaply made.

anything owned by a chinese company is a no go

also yes they used to make great electronics back in the day, now it's all about planned obsolescence

[gwg77]

lol I used to look at the Crutchfield catalog on the chitter

Aiwa lol I remember that I had a stereo, I bought it from Circuit city.

Its crazy how so many of these once top hot brands are now nothing burgers in the electronics industry

Not electronics, but sitting on the shіtter flipping through an eastbay catalog was peak 90s.

I just read they closed down in 2023.

[SirFapsAIot]

Not electronics, but sitting on the shіtter flipping through an eastbay catalog was peak 90s.

I just read they closed down in 2023.

fuarrrrrrkkkkk

Those NDestrukts, crazy how EVERYTHING was better back then. Kamikaze, Kamikaze II, Shaqnosis, Air Jordans, the Pennys, the Hill Filas, the Stackhouse Filas, so many icons

[SirFapsAIot]

by the way, this is a great channel for electronics, he has some newer crap, but lots of good older stuff

https://www.youtube.com/@Techmoan/videos

[ChaliHo]

Not electronics, but sitting on the shіtter flipping through an eastbay catalog was peak 90s.

I just read they closed down in 2023.

BRO WTF! I forgot about EASTBAY! I used to order all my shoes from them, and Id buy there shorts and tops for the gym for cheap they used to have discount codes, this was early 2000s, last time I ordered from the was 2011.

I would also read that on the chitter it was one of my favorite catalogs to look at on the can, id take a marker to put a check on the shoes id buy or was interested and then narrow it down to the two Id buy. I would put a crease on the corner of the pages.

They went under in 2023?

Do you remember Buckle or Active Mail order or CCS they were skater and surfer clothing and shoe stores online did they go under?

Amazon killed everything, Toys R us was the biggest blow. I used to buy my sports cards there and video games.

[LizzieTish]

Some of this goes back further than the 80's-90's:

Marantz, McIntosh, Dynaco, Sansui, NAD

Entry level, yet pretty decent separates from that era: Adcom, Parasound

[MyGhettoFantasy]

Not electronics, but sitting on the shіtter flipping through an eastbay catalog was peak 90s.

I just read they closed down in 2023.

Damn. Reminds me of looking at Compaq towers in Best Buy newspaper ads. 128megs of RAM. Lmao.

[ChaliHo]

Damn. Reminds me of looking at Compaq towers in Best Buy newspaper ads. 128megs of RAM. Lmao.

Do you remember Comp USA and Tiger Direct

[MyGhettoFantasy]

Do you remember Comp USA and Tiger Direct

Yep. Lol..

Damn does time fly.

Edit: haven't thought about Comp USA since Gamestop was Babbage's.

[8eggs]

just some that are not mentioned.

TEAC
AKAI
DBX
Koss
Nakamichi
fisher
Optimus
realistic
JVC
Victor
Tascam
Boston acoustics
Bose
Roland
Tandberg
Onkyo
denon

[ChaliHo]

just some that are not mentioned.

TEAC
AKAI
DBX
Koss
Nakamichi
fisher
Optimus
realistic
JVC
Victor
Tascam
Boston acoustics
Bose
Roland
Tandberg
Onkyo
denon

I remember Denon, fisher, JVC, Roland, and Koss.
I remember Bose was so popular with the old folks they used to have those ads all over the magazines and tv

[gwg77]

I ordered a head unit from crutch field a few years ago

I don't order from them too often but I still always check their audio selection whenever I'm looking to buy audio stuff lol

Damn I didn't know Crutchfield was still around.

fuarrrrrrkkkkk

Those NDestrukts, crazy how EVERYTHING was better back then. Kamikaze, Kamikaze II, Shaqnosis, Air Jordans, the Pennys, the Hill Filas, the Stackhouse Filas, so many icons

Bro the shoes were so much better back then. I remember around 1997 I bought the first ever re-release of the Air Force 1 and it had a real leather upper. Not the synthetic crap they make now (not like I would ever wear them these days).

BRO WTF! I forgot about EASTBAY! I used to order all my shoes from them, and Id buy there shorts and tops for the gym for cheap they used to have discount codes, this was early 2000s, last time I ordered from the was 2011.

I would also read that on the chitter it was one of my favorite catalogs to look at on the can, id take a marker to put a check on the shoes id buy or was interested and then narrow it down to the two Id buy. I would put a crease on the corner of the pages.

They went under in 2023?

Do you remember Buckle or Active Mail order or CCS they were skater and surfer clothing and shoe stores online did they go under?

Amazon killed everything, Toys R us was the biggest blow. I used to buy my sports cards there and video games.

Yeah Eastbay was awesome. It was the only place (pre-internet) where I could order shotput shoes.

Not sure about those other stores you're talking about tho.

Damn. Reminds me of looking at Compaq towers in Best Buy newspaper ads. 128megs of RAM. Lmao.

Bro, back then if you had a Compaq Presario laptop, you were dialed in. I remember when kids at school were getting Gateway towers and they came in the big cow boxes. Compaq and Gateway were big in college before Dell got huge.

[2011change]

Alot of Japanese electronic brands still hold dear to me:


-Sony
-Panasonic
-Pioneer
-Alpine (GOD DAMN, they made the best single DIN)
-Kenwood
-NEC (HOLY FKC, their 90's CRTs were the best)
-Toshiba (love their early 2000's laptops)
-TDK (Pound 4 pound made the best VHS/CDs/DVDs blank media)
-Casio (great watches)


This is why I'm very centric to Japanese goods

[ChaliHo]

Damn I didn't know Crutchfield was still around.



Bro the shoes were so much better back then. I remember around 1997 I bought the first ever re-release of the Air Force 1 and it had a real leather upper. Not the synthetic crap they make now (not like I would ever wear them these days).





Yeah Eastbay was awesome. It was the only place (pre-internet) where I could order shotput shoes.

Not sure about those other stores you're talking about tho.




Bro, back then if you had a Compaq Presario laptop, you were dialed in. I remember when kids at school were getting Gateway towers and they came in the big cow boxes. Compaq and Gateway were big in college before Dell got huge.

Eastbay saw a huge surge in revenue during the internet era, I remember them with Karmaloop I used to get those 40 percent off codes on entire order and order a lot of stuff

Amazon pretty much wiped all those places out, it shows you how people like convenience they dont like making new passwords and screennames for different stores, when they can have one name and order from one place everything

Same thing with Reddit, they killed the Message Boards, one screen name and many subreddits for various topics an all in one.

If there was no Amazon or Reddit, Bodybuilding.com and the misc would be booming still.

[baroni01]

anything owned by a chinese company is a no go

also yes they used to make great electronics back in the day, now it's all about planned obsolescence

Edifier is a good brand, but yeah most chinese stuff is crap

[ChaliHo]

Edifier is a good brand, but yeah most chinese stuff is crap

Is huawei Chinese?

[Anachron]

Is huawei Chinese?

Yes.

[wasp9166]

Kenwood head in mazda3

Boston acoustic speakers for TV

Pioneer 1014 reciever

All still going