Aiwa PX-E850
Not much is documented about the Aiwa PX-E850. Most of what the record shows comes from an equipment-directory listing. It was a semiautomatic, belt-driven turntable with a straight tonearm and a moving-magnet cartridge. The drive was a DC servo motor with soft damping control. The deck had a built-in transformer and phono EQ. Play speeds were 33⅓ and 45 rpm, wow and flutter was rated at 0.25% wrms, and the listed dimensions were roughly 14⅞ × 3¾ × 14⅞ inches at 6 lb. That same 1998 listing priced it at $130 (HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers, 1998, p.69).
The model also shows up in Audio's turntable listings in October 1997 (p.152). That page survives only in badly garbled OCR, so it adds little beyond confirming the deck was around by then. Beyond those two directory-style listings, almost nothing else is documented.
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