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Music centre is the British term for an all-in-one home audio system that integrates a turntable, radio tuner, cassette deck, and amplifier with speakers into a single unit.

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#1·Apr 28, 2026UK

Music centre is the British term for an all-in-one home audio system that integrates a turntable, radio tuner, cassette deck, and amplifier with speakers into a single unit. Enormously popular in the 1970s and 1980s, the music centre was a statement piece in British living rooms, representing hi-fi aspirations on a practical budget. Today the term is nostalgic shorthand for a specific era of domestic technology, evoking woodgrain panels, orange VU meters, and the smell of warm electronics.

His parents still had the old music centre in the front room, and it still worked perfectly.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

(British) An integrated home audio system.

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