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Boomboxes
Doesn't anyone collect boomboxes?
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I think the Lasonics and simliar fake chrome covered beasts attract those kind of prices because some of those monstrous piles of crap (in my opinion) are featured in some music videos and movies. I guess people want the same boxes they see famous people breakdancing to on TV.
I miss the monster Sony I had years ago. I don't remember the model number, but it has a single cassette deck, AM/FM/SW radio and 10 inch woofers. I saw a Marantz once that had the same champange gold with wood panel sides color scheme as their full sized components. No idea how it sounded though. |
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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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Have you checked out www.stereo2go.com? |
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I think it would be cool to buy the biggest flashiest one and keep it looking stock but rig and MP3 player inside of it that would play using the boom box controls.
mmmmmm another of my ambitious dreams that will never see fruition, much like my beer keg speakers |
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Someday, I'd LOVE to have an AK "Let's Blow The F*CK Outta Stuff" day at my farm...You boys bring the Boses, boomboxes, etc, I'll supply the beer, bullets & Uzi, FALs AK-47s, etc. Should be jolly good LOUD fun....-Sandy G.
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Partial to the Late 70s- early 80s Panasonic and JVC units.
Here's two excellent Panasonic units. RX7000 RX7700 Last edited by glen65; 11-08-2005 at 11:12 PM. |
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RX-5500 T-shirt
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I took a hammer to a Regency TR-4, I was 6 at the time. |
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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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Long ago when I worked at a TV shop in LA, I repaired the MOTHER of all boomboxes (or Ghetto Blasters as we called them)... It was a Taihan or a Kumho, I think. Kind you get new at a swapmeet. It was about 4 feet long, had 2 cassettes, 8-track, vertical phonograph, 12" B&W TV, AM-FM-Police-Aircraft-Shortwave radio, 12 or 14 D-batteries, 15" speakers, horn tweeters, and all! It was a cheaply made, heavily Plasti-Chromed piece of junk. Again; it was a boombox and not a tabletop home unit. all in one piece and designed to be carried around (by Lou Ferrigno or Arnold Schwartzenegger, LOL)... It belonged to a meter maid in West Los Angeles... Barely fit in the back of her metermaidmobile. I think it was made in the early 80s. I had a heck of a time troubleshooting it because, like most of those, it wasnt in Sams and there wasn't any factory distributor to be found.
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Here's a web site http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/ "The Boombox Museum".
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1 Heres one i got on ebay last week or so. I still havent recieved it. This is the same model as the first boombox/blaster I ever had. I bought the same model about 27 years ago in downtown San Francisco at Macys.I paid 200.00 for it, but I broke it a few years later and threw it out, so now i have the same model again. One day I hope to own the JVC that the other poster put a picture of in his reply. I do have it, I think, but its pretty messed up, so I want one in excellent condition. I have a few nice other ones including one with an eight track. I also have one with detachable spaeakers and more like a portable unit, except its a cross between a portable and a boombox with a handle on top, batterie compartment, and even a built in turntable.
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