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I got myself another boombox. This one is a Panasonic RXC36. It's a nice unit, but the FM radio has a problem. When you first turn it on, it will play in "FM Stereo" just fine for about 5 minutes. After that, the radio starts to fade in and out of stereo until it will no longer go in stereo at all. If I turn it off for about 20 minutes, it will play in stereo again, but then the cycle starts again.
Any idea what could be the issue?
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08-11-2016, 12:36 AM
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The thing I dont like about Boomboxs is ITS HARD TO FIND ONE WITH A MONO SWITCH!!!!!!!
I do not like stereo and I dont being forced to listen IN STEREO!!!!! Im probably gonna be in need of a new one soon but everyone I have gotton has been WORSE than the last! WHY WONT THEY ALLOW YOU AN OPTION TO PLAY A TAPE IN MONO IF YOU WANT??
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Well, why you don't use a small simple tape cassette ? they are MONO !!. your problem is solved !..
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08-15-2016, 10:40 AM
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eBay always has them, but you have to hang around the ending soonest search. Because people usually snatch them up just when you think you are home free. I've lost plenty that way, pissed me off!! But I'm not about to pay $197.00 for a boombox just because it's a JVC. I can't imagine why Lasonics sell for so much, I always thought they were peices of junk, with their cheap looking plastic chrome plate look.
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 I was shocked a while back when I searched Lasonic on eBay and saw what they were selling for! I bought one back around 1987-88 from Silo, paid about $79 for it (it was a TRC-9-something.) The salesman tried to get me to buy a JVC for $10 more, rightfully claiming it was a better machine (it had dual cassettes that loaded into a single door iirc,) but I really wanted the phono inputs and shortwave. I can't complain really - used the thing for over ten years. The antenna broke off by 1994, the top cassette deck never did sound great, and after a few years the buttons for the bottom cassette started snapping out of their carrier (they simply laid in a track - held in by the cabinet. You never could turn it *really* loud without distortion. When I moved back home, I gave it to a friend of mine as I didn't have room in the car. If I still had it, it would probably reside in my shed/workshop. Last edited by AUdubon5425; 04-22-2010 at 03:08 AM.
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01-22-2009, 10:52 AM
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Panasonic RX-S5400 boombox
Here is my Panasonic RX-S5400 boombox, a trash find behind my apartment last year. The cassette deck was working, but I think a belt must have snapped, as the take-up hub spindle does not move when the deck is in playback mode. The radio, however, works well and sounds excellent. The only things I could see wrong with this unit as found were, one, the FM antenna was broken, two, the former owner had left the batteries in it for goodness only knows how long (the originals were still there), as several of them had leaked onto the battery contacts, and three, the battery compartment cover is missing. However, the AC power cord was still attached to the unit when I found it, so it was easy to test it when I brought it inside; worked as soon as I threw the switch.
This unit is a keeper, as Panasonic probably doesn't make big, hefty boom boxes like this one anymore, having switched to building and marketing CD/mp3/satellite radio players; the latter, of course, are much, much smaller than any boombox ever was--witness the very small "stick" mp3 players now available these days at Big Lots, et al. for $10 or less. The price of SanDisk's "Sansa" mp3 player is coming down in a big way as well; the large-capacity players (with 2+ gigabyte storage capacity before formatting) can be had for about $30, with the original 512mb Sansa now selling almost dirt-cheap. I'd have one by now, but I just found out two days ago that the iTunes mp3 player does not support any other operating systems except Windows XP and Vista (I run Win98SE on a nine-year-old IBM Aptiva 595 computer, 128mb RAM and 600-MHz AMD "K7" processor). The only other way I am aware of right now to download to a portable mp3 player the music now on my computer would be to use my Winamp 5.3 media player, which is capable of downloading mp3 files to portable devices. BTW, I took the attached picture of my Pana boombox in something of a hurry and in less-than-optimum lighting, so it will be dark (at least it looks that way on my old HP Pavilion mx70 monitor). If you supersize the image and increase the brightness of your monitor, however, it should show just fine.
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01-27-2009, 02:43 AM
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Sold my Sharp VZ-2000. Was a beast, with its 'both-sides-play' turntable system. Yikes...!
Got a pretty penny for it though..... 
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