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Laskys Wonderful World Of Audiotronics 1972 price list

Well, I paid less than £66.75 for my TD125 ten years ago and it had a plinth! Lasky’s was obviously a rip-off. Except for the digital clock on the front page, of course. That looks a bit special.

But in all seriousness the pictures show - particularly on the Garrard page - how fashion trumps quality. Unfortunately, it was ever thus, and ever will be - not just in this field.
 
ciderglider said:
Odd to see upmarket gear being advertised in something with the same production values as Exchange & Mart. Whatever would Roy Gregory say?
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'Something of a bargain'. It's what he usually says.

We used to get Exchange and Mart when I was a nipper, for reasons that escape me now. I remember being baffled by the adverts that offered to exchange something for something else, and which ended 'WHY?' (It wasn't, as I thought at the time, a desperate existential cry about the meaning of life).
 
Marchbanks said:
Well, I paid less than £66.75 for my TD125 ten years ago and it had a plinth! Lasky’s was obviously a rip-off. Except for the digital clock on the front page, of course. That looks a bit special.

But in all seriousness the pictures show - particularly on the Garrard page - how fashion trumps quality. Unfortunately, it was ever thus, and ever will be - not just in this field.
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Yep, bought a Td125 long base with 12” 3009 in about 2007 for under £100, was delighted when I sold it for £250 shortly afterwards. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
 
Rug Doc said:
Wow. AND how much great stuff was produced!!
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The adverts show the good stuff....but on the shop floor it was rather different. In the Sheffield branch I worked at (77 to 78 ) we didn't see the high end very often.
Just the tat at the lower end. The company would bulk buy stuff like Garrard SP 25 mk.4 and give a 5 quid spiv to everyone who sold one. We refused to even try, considering
it beneath our dignity. Same with Nikko amps and anything Amstrad. Manager could never understand our contempt for this gear.
 
Joe Hutch said:
'Something of a bargain'. It's what he usually says.

We used to get Exchange and Mart when I was a nipper, for reasons that escape me now. I remember being baffled by the adverts that offered to exchange something for something else, and which ended 'WHY?' (It wasn't, as I thought at the time, a desperate existential cry about the meaning of life).
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What Have You? (still sounds existential to me)
 
Back in the days when music and audio was important.

Always remember hearing the AR18BX loudspeakers in Laskey's Romford- amazed how punchy and musical they were.:)
 
Of course back in those days there was also Comet too - it was with them I originally got started and my first upgrade too - A Pioneer PL12D and a Ferrograph 307 11 (in 1972).
I think I bought my first proper speakers at a specialist on the Stratford Road Sparkbrook - a pair of AR6's
Part of the pile 'em' high and sell it cheap days.
 
I bought my first amp as a student in 1981 out of Laskeys in Edinburgh’s St.James Centre- a Pioneer SX750 for £125 I think. It saw quite a bit of action at parties, blowing the protection fuses in my speakers. II still have it.
 
i worked for Laskys on Tottenham court road from about early 1981 to late 1984 (on and off and occasionally at the Kingsway branch and the BrentX branch)

I recall lots of AR, KEF, JVC, Sansui, Awai, Akai. A little bit of Quad....
 
A lovely piece of memorabilia.
My first system from Laskys in B’ham:- Luxman PD264 turntable, JVC ?AX1 integrated amp and Kef Celeste 4’s. All for under £300 to fit in with my 18th birthday present budget.
But then, I stepped on the upgrade ladder
 
boon said:
In 1972 I was earning £5.25 for a 45hour week as an apprentice plumber,
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Really?
I had a summer job in 72 and earned £20 a week
Mind you I was doing up to 100hrs a week.....Good money for a 14yr old
(no-one cared about working hours directive than...even if it existed)

Worked in a kitchen all day and then washed up till 1 in the morning
 
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