music centre
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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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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(British) An integrated home audio system.
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The British English term for what Americans call elevator music — that soft, inoffensive background music piped into lifts, shopping centres, and waiting rooms to fill awkward silence. Lift music is typically smooth, slow, and deliberately unremarkable, designed to soothe rather than engage. The phrase is also used figuratively to describe any music that is bland, generic, or aggressively unchallenging.
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Being in the centre.