Omg it’s gorgeous!
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I might need this
… what is it?
Looks like an Aiwa AD-4200, from around 1976 or so.
Looks like a particularly fancy cassette deck, I think the keyboard-looking thing on the front is the play control buttons, they look very similar to the buttons on one I own. Edit: it is
At first, I thought this was a cut-down four-track recorder (like a TASCAM with way fewer knobs) which would have been an amazing value for the time. It's still a beauty though.
Now we're talkin'
