A couple of questions.

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Nope, not a Polariser..... They looked like this:

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Some of them might have boosted the sound a bit but the purpose of an equaliser was to be able to make better adjustment of base, treble and midrange sound responses. Many of them had a "loud" function as well. It was streets ahead of what was available in the 70's, yet so primative when compared to what has come later. An AM/FM tape deck with an equaliser and a set of 6 inch front speakers and a set of 6x9's in the rear was a pretty good deal in the mid 80's. Late 80's for big gains in sound - CD players for starters.

Sad, isn't it....

CD players were 90's. I bought the top of the range pioneer tape deck in 94 for about $400. I couldn't afford the cd player, it was around $800!! A flash tape player had auto search function to Fast Forward to the next track. There was also AM stereo for a very short while in the late 80's. I have spent many days at a time listening to AM radio in tractors. I hope to never listen to AM ever again.We had no FM stations in the central west at all until 1991. That was the local ABC in Dubbo. Then we got Triple J in 1997. Wow wasn't that a revolution!!!!