Sony SYSCON353CD

Ain't this neat and well organized ?

Just like Denon (DR-M4), or the contemporary high-end TC-FX1010 Sony wiped the floor clean : touch-pads it was and rectangular the future would be !
However, the sales talk mostly was on reduced footprint...

SYSCON stands for SYStem CONtrol - the acronym that appeared when logic-controlled boards and solenoids definitely dissociated the human physical impulse from the material result of its effort.
But the future seems to be just like the horizon : we are still fiddling with protruding round knobs.

The included components are :
TA-V7 : amplifier
TC-V7 : k7 recorder
ST-V7 : am/fm tuner
PS-FL77 : tangential turntable
SU-V2 : table rack.

Optionally, one could add the SEH-V5 (EQ+echo), PT-V5 (timer), SU-V4 (floorstanding rack) or upgrade to PS-FL99 turntable.

Although it bears a "CD" tag and even a dedicated input, no Digital Audio Disc player was included and only a distant cousin was ever mentionned along : the CDP-11S in its grey guise.

The 353CD system was down-graded for the '85/86 season and renamed Precise V7, still without dedicated CD player.
The 353CD was Liberty CD in Japan.
"Precise" as a Sony tag came from the 1978 Precise P7 btw.



And here definitely lies the future of the round knobs : James Patten.

Since posting this page way back in early 2005, Mr Patten came a long way and now collaborates worldwide - even with Sony.