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.
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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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