Sharp VZ 3000 Both Sides Play Disc Compo System. This was a very modern and innovative stereo midi compo music centre of the 1980's from Sharp, the Japanese electronic company. Out of all the Japanese audio companies, Sharp was the only company who introduced many new innovations and features to their products starting from the simple stereo radio cassette recorders to the midi hifi systems. This was one fine example of it. This model featured a vertical both sides playing record player with many new advanced features which were not available at that time in the 1980's. The features such as the ability to play both sides of the records without the need to flip the discs manually, and the selection of the song tracks at the press of a button were very unique at that time! It also features the cassette recorder with Dolby System and DPSS sytem and the multi band radio tuner. I don't know much about the controls inside that flip down panel. All these are good and happy memories of the golden 80's era! Thank you very much for your nice demonstration of this beautiful Sharp VZ 3000 compo system with the close up views!! I wish i had this model back in that day but sadly i missed it. Very sorry about my late comment.

What an immaculate work of art. The best form and functional device from a forgotten (to some) time. I wish I could find one of these to fix up and have that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

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I had one of these back in the late eighties. I thought it was the coolest table i'd ever seen.

My parents had this system when I was a kid, although they didn't have the stock speakers. It was hooked up to nice big floor speakers on the other side of the room. The stereo was in this big cabinet that had a ledge above the drawers. I spent hours as a child kneeling on the ledge so that I could get to the stereo, my face lit up in wonder at all the lights and switches.

wow brings back memories ! I had one when I was a child best thing to protect your records from idiots who scratched your records on a conventional TT -the both sides play was awesome

I wish they bring this back...

Toda una joya de equipo los 80s fueron y seran lo mejor de lo mejor ahhh y Billy Idol excelente probando el equipo Sharp

I have just now found my ULTIMATE DREAM RECORD PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! never knew a vertical record player ever existed.......... thank you for your video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@KayoMichiels

6 жыл бұрын

If you thought this one was cool... look for the Sony PS-F9 also known as 'flamingo'

Love this! Thanks Analog-Meter

Excellent product! great listening to Def Leppard!

This is damn cool! Had no idea these existed.

@jcmolero71

3 жыл бұрын

My twin brothers had one of these in 1981, it was innovative in that age

👍👍👍класс ! Вещь !

very good -- thank you

I need myself one of these. Can find one without something wrong with the turntable or loud idle static.

The one from the wall is Mitsubishi Lt-5v ?

hi i have this same sharp. maybe you changed cartridge??

our mum had one of these stereo system

Respekт sharp! Хочу такой, но нет денег!))

I have this set but not working turn table belt prob

Hi, Have you fitted a blue LED to the record illumination?

@usa4356

9 жыл бұрын

Andrew Pate they just look blue,actually they are white thank you

Hi recently got one of these from car boot but tape deck not working any tips on repair! I noticed there is a light on the turntable in your video I don't seem to have a light with my one have you customise the light or am I missing it?

@janath9118

7 ай бұрын

Yes, the light on the turntable compartment is one of this owner's modification. Its not original. Its noted here by this owner. Sorry about the late comment. I just came here only now.

Un diseño adelantado a su epoca

I still have mine. I love it. How can I change the needle?

@usa4356

4 жыл бұрын

just pull out old cartridge with your fingers and install new,very easy

Just bought 2 of these

@janath9118

7 ай бұрын

Wow!!

Hi, Analog-Meter ! That's a very clean-looking (and cool-looking) unit you display in this video of yours: the Sharp VZ-3000! I doubt that I ever handled any of those record-player-equipped portable stereos (so I obviously never owned one), but I just want to let you know that your own VZ-3000 seems to be in mint condition. Did you refurbish (or "recondition") that unit? That so-called "Both Sides Play" technology that plays both sides of a vinyl record without the user having to flip the music platter was certainly innovative of Sharp, or whichever other electronics brand pioneered such a feature; I understand that other brands like JVC and Sony also made and released record-player-equipped (or "record-player-based") models in that same decade, the 1980s (though the models, such as the JVC DC-7, clearly weren't all vertical- or upright-positioned, "Both Sides Play" units). Lest I forget, I noted that the vinyl record being played in your Sharp -- the Billy Idol 12" single "Rebel Yell" -- began to turn (rotate) in the opposite direction (counterclockwise?) while playing what I assume is the facing-in side of the record, handily revealing the product's dual-tone-arm, "Both Sides Play" feature . I also note that the Sharp VZ-3000 (and perhaps its seemingly scaled-down counterpart, the VZ-2500) were designed and built in an era where audiocassette player/recorder units had separate STOP and EJECT buttons (or touch-surface controls), not the combined or dual-function controls that hundreds of tape-recorder models have had since then. As for the radio-tuner section: would that the Sharp VZ-3000 was a shortwave-tuner like its counterpart, the VZ-2500 ! I'm somewhat partial to shortwave-receiving radio tuners, perhaps especially in vintage portable radio cassette recorders. The Sharp VZ-2500 that I watched a demo' of here on KZread right before this video, in addition to tuning the familiar FM and AM (domestic) bands, receives shortwave (SW) AND longwave (LW). I live in the United States, where we don't have a profusion of longwave broadcasts, a phenomenon predominant in Europe, North Africa and the so-called Middle East. As such, I could do without longwave-tuning ability in my stereos (if it means having just one shortwave band in my analog-tuner gear), but I certainly nod in acceptable (if not earnest approval ) at analog-era tuners with at least two shortwave bands AND a fine-tuning control for enhanced AM and SW tuning. A reasonable preference, yes ? (Here I amend that a Google Images search minutes ago reveals collectors' online scans of brochures of a VZ-3000 version, the Sharp VZ-3000E. Like at least one version of the Sharp VZ-2500, the E-version of the VZ-3000 tunes longwave -- clearly a European version -- but lacks shortwave reception ) Anyway, Analog-Meter, I must go. (Other needs, you know.) It's been six months since your last remarks in this KZread file, but if you still monitor this file's "Comments" section: good going with that Sharp and good day!

@uzodinman358

8 жыл бұрын

+Uzodinma N I amend my lengthy post from earlier the same day: A check a while ago of the Wikipedia website informs me that "Rebel Yell" was a hit single AND the title of Billy Idol's very successful second LP, released in November 1983 on Chrysalis Records. One glimpses the record-info' label showing at least four apparently different song tracks on the outward-facing side of the vinyl record when the VZ-3000 record player's (quite unhurried) opening and closing design is demonstrated. And one notes a number of track-demarcating grooves in the black disc itself, perhaps especially when the record player is at rest. So no, that was NOT the "Rebel Yell" single but the multi-platinum ALBUM used by Analog-Meter to model the Sharp VZ-3000. I also now note the long, tonearm-tracking, partially graduated, seemingly blue-lit window that shows the cartridge of the tonearm assembly gliding back and forth across the vinyl record to and from one track or another, apparently when a certain control is pressed and held down. No more Mr. Butterfingers jolting the in-play vinyl record while toggling tonearms (or even DROPPING said tonearm), eh, what? Oh, and lest I forget, I was going to ask if this machine could ever run on D-cells, but a search via Google Images (and, heck, simply looking at the contraption) seems to make it pretty clear that the Sharp VZ-3000 is no "batteries accepted" portable. (A South African website does indicate that the downscale Sharp VZ-2000 is a take-along unit ...)

@abonetp

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it's not "portable". Had one when I was a kid -- it didn't run on batteries and weighed quite a bit.

@janath9118

7 ай бұрын

@uzodinman358 Thank you very much for sharing your views and other information regarding this Sharp VZ 3000 ! They are important for me. Sorry about my very late comment. I live in South Asia and I came here just now.

I have a VZ3000Z. I would like to add the lights you have. Have you added LED lights on the inside of the turntable door? If so what are they and how did you wire them up? thanks!

@usa4356

4 жыл бұрын

Hard to explain it :) have install strip LED on turntable door and run the wires to the back of the turntable and connect it 8-12 volt on the board

@lucianomesiti4405

4 жыл бұрын

@@usa4356 what type of strip LED? Which voltage?

@MrMaerlin

3 жыл бұрын

Also interested by the type of led band, but also the wirering! Wired directly on the turntable motherboard?

Можно смотреть как в телевизор.

I have this, but the record player belt has torn. I guess it is a 14 inch belt, do you know where can I find them. I checked online for the original belt but without any luck.

@usa4356

6 жыл бұрын

on ebay

@TKELCH

3 жыл бұрын

turntablebelts.com

Are the speakers still OK on yours. If you take the covers off the speakers on ours there was signs of material breakdown. The belt used to slip on the door but it was very good quality tec for its time.

@usa4356

4 жыл бұрын

very easy to fix it,just buy speaker foam repair kit and replace it

@tig376

4 жыл бұрын

I wish we still had it!😔 Modern classic.

👍

Def Leppard

🤟😁👍♥️

what is the name of this record its great

@janath9118

7 ай бұрын

Name of the artist is Billy Idol. Name (title) of the record is Rebel Yell.

😷👏

Japaneses are skillful

Still has mine... don't use it anymore o.0

@janath9118

7 ай бұрын

It's a pity not to use it.

WHAT SONG ON 03:23?!

@usa4356

9 жыл бұрын

Егор Волошин kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yol9pJuSZLKsgNY.html

@user-bv8mz9lq3q

9 жыл бұрын

usa4356 THANKS

@usa4356

9 жыл бұрын

нет проблем :)

@user-bv8mz9lq3q

9 жыл бұрын

usa4356 шикарный аппарат!

Can you get it on your shoulders and roller-skate down the street with it?

@janath9118

7 ай бұрын

This is not a portable model.

@fraudsarentfriends4717

7 ай бұрын

@@janath9118 Then the titles wrong, It's not a Ghetto Blaster.

@janath9118

6 ай бұрын

@@fraudsarentfriends4717 Yes, you are right! The title of this video is wrong. He may have carelessly written it, but this is not the way its written on the machine. Did you notice it? It indicates the words "Sharp VZ-3000 Both Sides Play Disc Compo System". That must be the correct title. "Ghetto blaster" is just a slang. I don't think that you can carry it on your shoulder like any other portable because of its size and weight. Also the turntable is not shock proof. The stylus can get damaged. Thanks!

SYSTEM SHARP SG 5000 Vou disponibilizar um aparelho desse; Caso alguém tiver interesse me avise !

@neyz6185

5 жыл бұрын

Tenho interesse sim