Damned things followed me home from work....

[stereofisher]

I rarely buy new stuff outside of GE Super Radio III's. Most my stuff is old and I fix it up. One of the guys was putting these out at SEARS where I work. Looked kind of cool and I went over to electronics and put on my Christmas CD. Dont play CDs much and felt a portable CD might give me a chance to play them. Spin mostly LPs and RTR here. Have 100s of CDs gathering dust. We sell an Emerson portable PD5098. My Christmas CD ( I make them from my record collection instead a Christmas card) sounded pretty good. For $24.99 I took it.

Dont like "made in China" but its not bad. Fairly decent FM and AM 740 from Canada comes in fine. Thats how I judge the AM section. We live in southeast NY. Even the Mrs approved. Its light. I will run her on batteries but it does come with an AC cord.

While at the land fill here I found a boombox. Been looking for a Cassette portable and thought I hit pay dirt. Wrong. It was an Panasonic AM-FM *-track. Oh well, beggers can be choosers. Came with a very noisy volume control. A good shot of contact cleaner cured that. Cleaned up the cabinet and bought an 8 track tape at Sal Army to try the 8 track. All ready to go.

Dont know how good the Emerson will be. Wont last like the Panasonic which has to be over 30 years old! Hard to beleive its lasted that long!!!

Eric