Jow!

I just bought a Nesco Bbox - thought it looks nice, but built quality isn't that good. Never heared of this brand. Any infos about this?



Best wishes
TOM

Oh my giidy aunt .

Looks like R2D2 from Star Wars...
Or WallE from the new film.
Never heard before.
But much better looking than an egg-blaster.

no, no, no, no

nice to see you back here, tom --

as you have posted that box --its obvious that you forget about the tough crowd we have here

BBDB info:

Nesco
Originally a hi-fi shop founded in Reykjavík, Iceland in the 60's, the name I believe is taken from the owners large land holdings in Reykjanes (Reykjanes Company = Nesco), became the largest seller of hi-fi products in the country in the 70's in no small part thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns. They noted that some of the established European and American brands that supplied them with budget consumer level audio were increasingly selling them rebadged Asian sourced components and often the same unit with different badges at quite varying prices. The company decided to start importing directly from the same OEM sources using their own brandname with spectacular success, and soon started to re-export them to Scandinavia and later to the rest of Europe. Best know for low budget TV's and for a time one of the best known Northern European supplier of budget Brown Goods but actually had the best price/performance ratio CD players and turntables out there at the time, the emphasis on at the least reasonable audio quality from those is possibly due to the companies origin as an out and out hi-fi retailer. Financial mismanagement meant that the company went out of business in the mid-late 1980's but the brand continued until the latter half of 1999 at the least, if in a more limited fashion and under the auspices of the original company's COO. However the company left an interesting legacy, after it's initial success in the 1980's there sprang up a number of companies in Denmark in particular that used the same business model, many of those still with us today. Yours truly did at one time actually employ the son of the company's founder, one Guðlaugur Sigurjónsson but I never had the good sense to query him further on the history of the company and these day's he utterly refuses to answer my SMS messages, e-mails, hoodoo invocations, etc.. etc.. etc.., undoubtedly for very sound reasons.
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Not to be confused with early 20'th century USA based radio manufacturer National Electric Signalling Company that is often abbreviated to NESCO.



Distributor in Germany: SCANEL GmbH, Am Neumarkt 30, 20354 HAMBURG



Info origin


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Brand/Mark Registration in the Netherlands:

(151) Date of the registration
15.11.1989
(111) Number
15.11.1989
(180) Expected expiration date of the registration/renewal
15.11.2009
(171) Expected duration of the registration
20
(732) Name and address of the holder of the registration
SCANEL NETHERLANDS B.V.
8-10, Cypresbaan,
NL-2908 CAPELLE A.D. IJSSEL (NL)
(811) Contracting State of which the holder is a national
DT
(540) Mark
NESCO
(511) The International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification) and the list of goods and services classified according thereto
09 Appareils pour l'enregistrement, la transmission, la reproduction du son ou des images; équipement pour le traitement de l'information et les ordinateurs; parties des produits précités; supports d'enregistrement magnétiques, disques acoustiques.
(821) Basic application
DT, 18.05.1989
(822) Basic registration
DT, 06.07.1989, 1 142 583
(300) Data relating to priority under the Paris Convention and other data relating to registration of the mark in the country of origin
DT, 18.05.1989, 1 142 583
(831) Designations under the Madrid Agreement
AT, BX, CH, ES, FR, HR, HU, IT, KP, PT, RU, SI, UA, YU

poor result for NESCO,included yours just 5 in the base...

looks like a yamaha minis stereo that was made in the 90s.

Tom...ummmm...this is...so unlike you. Definitely different. How does it sound?

I know oldskook69

normaly not a bbox for me - but it realy remember me to the Yamaha-systems. I get it for (just) 1 Euro, so it was worth the risk.

Sound? It sound like it looks like - plastic! No more to say ... but you know, that I sometimes just bboxes because I wanne know how they sound! I already bought a few systems because people told me that they sound great (like the GF 777 or the PMS 7000) but at least I was so disapointed that I just go my own way ...

Hope you and your's are alright!

Still got a Marantz here for you! Remember ...?


Best wishes
TOM

Hopefully it`s enough info about nesco.
Could you tell me the model no...

Heahhh, sorry TPR that I forgot you ...

Is it ok when I send you some photos from the type-plate???

Sorry for my late reaction - you know that you are the best! If somebody knows something about a bbox than it's you! You helped me so many times to clear things - thanks for that!

Pictures gonne come as fast as possible!

TOM

Too much escudos man .A pic of the back side sticker would be great ...

Next weeks I`m goin' to the Seckenheimer str.
in Mannheim -visitng a friend ,how far is dat from you,let`s meet in an espresso bar,I heard you`ve got the highest number of espresso bars in whole Germany...

What???

I didn't know that. Ok, cool. The best would be you take that picture by yourself - you are wellcome!!! Soundtest ... hihihihi??? Bier is always on the right temperature ... PM me!

Best wishes
TOM

Hello TPR

Here are the pictures of the Nesco ...






PS: Mannheim ist 20 min. entfernt (PKW) - lass uns per PM Telefonnummern austauschen und teile mir mit, wann'de ungefähr kommst ...

Grüße von TOM

thanks for the pics ...

Ok I`ll answer per pm!

quote:

Originally posted by hifitom:
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Oh, it's "Fashionable". I did wonder...

That name on the back cracks me up. I thought Hitachi were bad enough with their "High Performance Portable Creative Sound System" (aka boombox with mic mixing), but this one is really special. It's more like page one of the manual than a product name.

Looks-wise, it seems the people who designed the speakers & the main unit weren't on speaking terms with each other.

Pity it doesn't sound a bit better...