Sharp GF-9696

The GF-9696, a beautiful looking machine also had individual bass controls, and had pitch control to adjust tape speed for different recordings.

Audio track for the GF-9696

Sharp GF-777

Sharp also had the famous GF-777, a giant 4 woofer (two mid ranges) and 2 tweeter monster with twin decks in the upper left corner, and removable speaker grilles. The other innovation was that the main woofers had individual bass controls as well as a general bass control and a loudness button.

Audio track for the GF-777

Sharp VZ-2000

Sharp was again a leader in design and innovation with the VZ-2000, a massive, heavy unique player that had a single cassette deck, radio, and a dual stylus linear tracking turntable. This unit allowed one to play BOTH sides of the record without turning the record over, essentially an autoreverse feature, but with a record.

Audio track for the VZ-2000