On 1/12/17 9:17 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet writes:
On 1/12/2017 5:06 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 1/11/2017 9:47 PM, wrote:

RS was a good place if you need a diode or resistor, but not for
equipment.


Exactly, IIRC theiy assembled equipment was terrible.

The Tandy and Realistic brands were actually reasonably good in
quality and performance. Particularly their radio gear. I still
use three Radio Shack scanners on a daily basis, and the oldest is
about thirty years on at this point.


Scott is partly correct. :-)
Some of that stuff was excellent for consumer electronics.
Obviously, RS didn't have a factory where they were cranking out this
stuff. They were a stencil brand that contracted out their
manufacturing and had the manufactures stencil their brand names on it.
In fact, there was a good amount of time in the 90s when Sony was making
a LOT of RS audio gear and they weren't skimping on quality. There were
a lot of models that were simply Sony boxes with Realistic badges.

I still have a RS audio/video receiver/amp I bought at lest 25 years ago
that sounds and works great. It's been a while since I was "in the
know" but because of some relationships I had in the professional
broadcast video industry I knew what companies were making all of RS's
gear and which models they were patterned after and if and/or what
inside was any different from the name-brand stuff.


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