If you think the Chinese are naughty...

[abbydog]

....check out the Soviet Thorens/SME clones here

http://www.audioclassic.org/ussr-audio-classic.html

Love the Kremlin blaster - or should that be Red Square briefcase.

(apologies to those who know this site already)

 

[337alant]

Nice
My Father had a Riginda Bolshoi for years and it sounded pretty good TBH

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/radiotehni_rigonda_bolshoi_stereo_multiplex.html

Alan

 

[Darmok]

I found one of the above on a skip in south London in the mid eighties.

No legs or loudspeakers.

It was working and didn't sound to bad into my Richard Allen RA82L speakers I was using at the time.

It used output valves very similar to EL84s and were a near direct equivalent.

Ok for free, I gave it away to a next door neighbour.

 

[paskinn]

Well,some guys in Lithuania are offering replica Lowther TP1s; a originally made in Bromley, kent. Only $15,000 to you,plus vat, plus carriage.
The silly thing is, you can buy good condition originals for rather less.

 

[Bemused]

I found one of the above on a skip in south London in the mid eighties.

No legs or loudspeakers.

It was working and didn't sound to bad into my Richard Allen RA82L speakers I was using at the time.

It used output valves very similar to EL84s and were a near direct equivalent.

Ok for free, I gave it away to a next door neighbour.

My farther had the same model, I remember the majic eye tuning valve and the AFC that turned the tuning knob also by majic

 

[madmike]

Very interesting, in a retro hi fi porn sort of way...