Soundesign
Soundesign was sold in American department stores like Kmart and JCPenney. Their products included boomboxes, alarm clocks, and budget hi-fi receivers with only 5 to 20 watts per channel. They were also one of the first brands to sell "rack systems", which consisted of a receiver, cassette deck, and turntable sharing a single housing, along with cheap speakers and a particle-board "rack" cabinet to store everything in. Overall, the brand was similar in concept to Yorx and Lloyds: Cheaply-built but flashy-looking products for people without a lot of money, or people who were very gullible and didn't know any better. However, it would not be wise to write off the brand entirely. A few Soundesign products, like the 4689 boombox, were good performers. Today, the Soundesign brand is no longer used, and the company is now called SDI Technologies.
Here is a list of Soundesign audio products from the 1980s:
- Soundesign 2222
- Soundesign 2273
- Soundesign 2289
- Soundesign 2667
- Soundesign 3092
- Soundesign 3212
- Soundesign 3888-05
- Soundesign 4369BLK
- Soundesign 4415
- Soundesign 4425
- Soundesign 4606
- Soundesign 4617 Color Tunes
- Soundesign 4618
- Soundesign 4622
- Soundesign 4626
- Soundesign 4628
- Soundesign 4632
- Soundesign 4633
- Soundesign 4638
- Soundesign 4640
- Soundesign 4641
- Soundesign 4644
- Soundesign 4649
- Soundesign 4653
- Soundesign 4662BLK
- Soundesign 4677
- Soundesign 4689
- Soundesign 4690 (this is nearly identical to the Rising SRC-2005)
- Soundesign 4743
- Soundesign 4750BLK
- Soundesign 4787
- Soundesign 4788
- Soundesign 4859
- Soundesign 4873
- Soundesign 4955
- Soundesign 5171
- Soundesign 5648-09
- Soundesign 5751-19
- Soundesign 5768-64
- Soundesign 5832-21
- Soundesign 5834BLK
- Soundesign 5880-64
- Soundesign 5943-31
- Soundesign 5957BLK
- Soundesign 5959-21
- Soundesign 5988-64
- Soundesign 6751-19 (this is just a 5751-19 with a turntable)
- Soundesign 6852-21
- Soundesign 6943-31
- Soundesign 6959-21