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I have always kept an eye out for one of those huge, grey, JVC ghetto blasters with the green LEDs. My punk stepbrother had one when we were growing up and I was always super jealous of it - along with his Colecovision game console.
This thing is no hulking JVC, but for $5 at the Goodwill last week I couldn't pass it up... It is a Panasonic, model SG-J500, AND - it plays records? I am a child of the 80's, and I don't ever remember seeing one of these... Anybody??? |
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Not quite like that, but I sure am jealous now that I've seen yours! (Then again, my cousin had not only a Colecovision, but the entire ADAM computer setup! So there!)
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Joined the ranks yesterday and snagged a Panasonic RX-5050 at the dump.
I am shocked at how good the sound quality is using an iPod as the source. This 80's throwback is going nowhere! |
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I have one of these and a national version as well
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Nice score. If I can find the owner's manual for mine, I'll make you a copy.
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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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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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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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