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Sony
SYSCON 353CD
(1983 - 1986)

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 square 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.

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 CD player. "Precise" as a Sony tag came from the 1978 Precise P7.

There also was a bigger Syscon system in '83 which unfortunately was released only in Japan (PS-FL99 etc).

And the future seems to be just like the horizon : we are still fiddling with round knobs.

And here definitely lies the future of the round knobs.