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Originally Posted by MMM
Maybe it's an age thing. The receiver, tape deck, CD player, record player were all called "components" for a stereo system. I don't think a lot of people have these things as separate items anymore, if at all, so the term may be outdated.
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That is what I think of if someone says "stereo components" - the individual parts like a receiver, tape deck, cd player, etc, hooked up to speakers. Something like this;
When I hear コンポ in Japanese, I think of something all in one, and fairly small. Like this;
They seem quite different.
