Beosystem10
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Someone who'd never owned a toaster or an oven would be my guess.Hisrudeness said:
Besides, the KB FB10 is the radio that was known as the toaster, here's one like mine:
Some folk reckon it's because the shape looks like a toaster but it actually referred to how hot it gets, it's an AC mains set so there's no dropper inside to get really hot, just an autotransformer that shouldn't, but it's poorly ventilated and uses the heater current of a DC mains set so much of that heat comes from the poor old valves!
But if a 555 or one of its related models doesn't make enough bass at high volume levels then there's something wrong and admittedly, in every one I've worked on, there has been!
Recapping the a/f board on these almost always yields results as a couple of the factory values were off from the start. Deal with these and raise the crossover frequency while you're in about at it and you find that not only do they thump in a way that no similar sized Sharp does, but they also play flat out with no detectable distress. They're not a subtle beast though but. 
Indoor box? No, but at the bottom of my back garden, playing to a few dozen old rockers and scooter boys
on the beach beyond, they come into their own as a sorted 555 doesn't half project. (Get your guests as rat-arsed as possible as early as possible and they'll forget that they're supposed to be enemies in the wild.. 
)About a year ago, one of my work campuses was closed down and we all took over the premises - two standard local authority-issued warehouse units knocked through to one - and had a party where the games included playing golf with the cordless telephone handsets, burning the furniture and blasting tunes. That 555 played for a solid 6 hours at ridiculously loud levels and filled thae two warehice with bass. Remarkably, it still carries the same ten Procell Ds now and a quick check reveals that it still plays at the correct speed so they're not just loud, they're frugal too.
Sure & it has a face that even its mother probably doesn't love but mine is always the 1st choice for making lots of noise in wide open spaces.
OK, so the Technics is much louder but that eats ten Ds before one side of a C45 has played through and using it for my home leg of the beach party round means bringing out an extension lead some 30 yards long, which isn't happening.
