Toshiba

Explore Toshiba vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Models

SA-620 — Toshiba SA-620 AM/FM stereo receiver, circa 1977: $449.95 list, Dolby circuit, two tape monitors, 65 dB selectivity, 1.9 µV FM sensitivity.
SA-850 — Toshiba SA-850 digital synthesizer stereo receiver, advertised 1979-1980; 50W RMS/ch claimed, twin 10,000 µF filter capacitors.

840-S — Toshiba 840-S four-track stereo reel-to-reel, $219.50, Electro-Hinge detachable speakers, 60–10,000 Hz at 7½ ips.
DX-900 — Toshiba DX-900 — a VHS VCR with digital audio, digital video, and five audio channels (two PCM, two Hi-Fi, one linear). Bought by studios in pairs.
V-22 — The Toshiba V-22 is almost undocumented; period reviews of the Toshiba XR-V22 CD player are a separate model.
XR-9459 — Toshiba XR-9459 portable CD player, listed at $400 in a July 1990 HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers roundup. Little else is documented.
XRV-22 — Toshiba XR-V22 dual-tray CD player (c. 1985–1986). 30-track programming, 96 dB dynamic range, $499. Reviewed in Audio and HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers.

SD-3006 — Toshiba SD-3006 (1997) — Toshiba's first DVD player, $699, matte-gray build, excellent video and a manual that beat the competition, but internal DACs that pushed owners to outboard decoding.
SD-9000 — Toshiba SD-9000 (1999) DVD player review — $1,100 Cinema Series deck with 10-bit video DAC, 5.1 decoding, and bench tests that fell short of the hype.
XR-Z90 — Toshiba XR-Z90 (1983) — $1,000 first-gen CD player with 1-second access, variable outputs, and an 11th-order low-pass filter.