[mythtv-users] MythTV with Vintage Gear

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:

> And when you think that Akai is now a generic brand selling Chinese-made crap :(

There's also an Akai Professional: http://www.akaipro.com/

Brands come and go. What gets me is the lack of anything I would considder 
small. A few years ago I went looking for a small radio/amp to stick stick 
in a 3 inch space over my kitchen fridge. It's not made. I ended up getting 
an old Awia minisystem amp off ebay.

Then I just redid my bathroom, and actually mounted a car radio in the wall. 
$40 for the radio, $16 each for ceiling speakers, plugs in with a wall 
transfomer in the atic above the bathroom, and I don't have to worry 
about a shower radio smashing to the floor again.

The real kicker for me was the lack of anything inside the radio. With the 
demise of CDs, I found a Dual radio-only, with SD/USB inputs intsead. It 
was just shallow enough to fit inside a 2X4 stud wall, but I had to open it 
up and solder an antenna wire, since the standard antenna jack stuck out to 
far. The board inside was only only about an inch deep out of the 4 inch 
box.

With a little redesign, the same thing could be made less than an inch 
thick, and snap into a sheetrock wall.



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