Cheap but interesting Durabrand home theater system!

This is cheap... but it is a rather unusual setup!

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[haz939]

looks like a TK2050 amplifier chips

[DrCassette]

@haz939

The part number starts with DX, I can remember the rest at the moment.

[ThisGuyFrritz]

Durabrand and Trutech are the brand names I would avoid. I've seen Maxxarcade's video about a Durabrand can opener. Just by looking at the video would give you an idea how inferior it is.

[DrCassette]

@ThisGuyFrritz

I too have seen Maxxarcade's video :)

[vwestlife]

So is this better or worse than what Aldi would sell? :-) It's kind of interesting that it has RDS on the tuner. That would be unheard of on such a cheap receiver here in America, but I guess in Europe, people expect almost every radio to have RDS.

[DrCassette]

@vwestlife

It's on about the same level. Since the death of the ALDI founder, Mr. Albrecht (ALDI means ALbrecht's DIscount) the quality of a lot of ALDI products seems to go downhill. We have actually stopped buying a lot of ALDI products because they just don't taste good anymore. We are now buying a lot of things at EDEKA :D

Yes, here in Europe most radios have RDS.

[28019ab]

this walmart stuff (sold by ASDA in UK) is generally chinese crap with the store brand name stamped on the front. Either that or made by Funai and unlikely to last more than a year.

To be fair, when these cheap dvds work, they often play more formats than the more expensive brands -they are less picky about +R or -R discs etc. I find most have bulged capacitors int he psu secondary, anything else more serious is not worth fixing.

[Knaeckebrotsaege]

what you can expect from cheap ebay Class D or T amps

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lol

[OlegKostoglatov]

@ThisGuyFrritz Strange enough not all Durabrand stuff is a complete pile of feces, though I am sure their electronics are, I have a Durabrand hot air popcorn maker that someone gave me and although it's not the best design I've been using it at least once a week for at least two years and still haven't managed to kill it. The only part that failed was a rocker on off switch on the side, it welded itself together and then broke apart so I bipassed it.

[CenaTv2]

looks cheap

[bratina501]

@THEtechknight Quite so it seems even though RBDS is making a comeback here in the US. The truth is RDS and RBDS are almost fully compatible with each other. The only differences between the two are the PTY codes and also perhaps the clock set protocol which many RDS/RBDS stations transmit.

[THEtechknight]

in america the technical term for RDS is RBDS and only higher end radios have it for some strange reason.

[coolbluelights]

@DrCassette Yes :D I'm going to say most of these pictures were taken in the south, I see some strange characters up north here in our wal marts but not as strange as down south :D