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I just snagged this Panasonic RX-DS45. It is bi-amped and has a CD player on top, and a full function remote. I used to have a Panasonic bi-amped 3 piece boombox, but it was stolen, and this is it's replacement. This unit was sold in the early 90's, as were the other models of the "Platinum Collection". The sound of these is as good as a decent shelf system.
They hold 10 D cells and 4 AA's for the memory. I always ran my other one off of a 12 volt "jumper pack" when I was out and about. It is much cheaper than buying 10 D's at a time, which they love more then a Hummer loves unleaded. The woofers run at 2.4 ohms, and the tweets at 8 ohms, on their respective amps. Hopefully it will get here in one piece by the end of the week. I will post my own pics when it arrives.
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My daughter was immediately curious about the external mike input but I could not get them to activate so I am doing something wrong. |
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Those Marantz models you speak of sound better than most boomboxes. They almost sound like "real" Marantz. I know, because I have more of them than any collector I've ever found or heard of, including guys who have hundreds more boomboxes than I do. Quote:
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I'm planning to sell off dozens of boomboxes sometime later this year. In fact, I'll be clearing out most of my collection, and keeping just a very few favorites. Not sure how many (I lost count of how many I have somewhere back around fifty... now maybe 100?), but I have a lot of ultra-rare and "grail" models, and will sell most of them, too. The money I will put into other vintage gear (probably high-end Japanese-market turntables, my current "obsession". ) I just don't have the room and resources to collect everything, so something had to go. It's going to be the boomboxes, along with a lot of mid-fi audio stuff. I'm moving UPmarket in quality with the proceeds, over time, and simultaneously shrinking the physical space my gear takes up. Boombox collecting can be as much fun as collecting anything else... but not everyone values them that way the collectors do. Most boombox collectors are ten years or more younger than the vintage home-gear collectors, because most people seek to collect the stuff that was "in" when they were young, in a kind of "nostalgia trip". At least it seems that way. |
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They made some great ones. Here's some of the cream of the crop.
JVC RC-M90 Panasonic RX-5350 Sharp 9696 Sharp GF-777Z Toshiba - RT-S953 Toshiba - RT-S983 |
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I have owned since 1985, a Sharp GF-575 with 35 watts of power. It's beat all to hell, and still sounds great. 10 d batteries of power. Shortwave 1 and two!
Wish I'd taken better care of it, but man does she have some miles!
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YAY! A boombox discussion.
I got a dozen or so nice ones, now if I had a warehouse.... Minty Lasonic TRC-931 of course, nowhere near as bad as most say. JVC RC-880JW, Marked JVC model, near impossible to find so I kept it. Panasonic RF-2200, missing the boom but an AM listeners treasure. Panasonic SG-675, MIB, early early portable AM-FM Turntable. etc.. etc.. I collect early portable electronics in general. Walkmans, CD and such. I have no room to display which sucks, most of my boomboxes are in the basement rafters. The lasonic is displayed, it is impressive, grills are metal, guards not. |
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i still own one of Panasonics last big boomboxes....the dual tape deck cd player, 3 way speakers..with a 4 amp system. it really sounds good
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All kidding aside, this radio from sony is NICE, has a killer FM/AM Tuner http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1149206657671
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I recently picked up a very minty sony cfd 5 boombox
the only thing I need for it is belts for the cassette deck does sony still sell a belt kit for the cfd 5 ? |
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I bought brand new in late 1986 one of those infamous Lasonic TR-931 (was that the model?) that you see in commercials and music videos today. It was on sale for $99, and I bit. Actually, it sounded GREAT - lots of power, many buttons and inputs, eq, and ate batteries like you wouldn't believe. I regret giving it to my sister years later, as I'm sure it was promptly broken and tossed in the trash. I saw one go for $199 recently - so they are keeping their value. Man, do I miss that big, poorly built plastic thing! Rob
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I found a source for the belts I need for my sony cfd 5
you could almost build a whole radio http://www.partstore.com/Model/Sony/Sony/CFD5.aspx my cfd 5 says 48 watts on the back and it has a 1.6 amp fuse on the 120 volt input. I also have 2 sony cfs d7 boomboxes one of my cfs d7s is mint. partstore.com has tons of parts for them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GViVsyNbNCI |
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well i have 2 of these Panasonic RX-5350 1 of this one Sharp 9696 2 96's and 1 9494-recently Sharp GF-777Z 2 of these Toshiba - RT-S953 not familiar with this one - is this the one with the remote? Toshiba - RT-S983 2 of these |
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I have one of these and a national version as well
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