Trash find - Panasonic boom box

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by tgunner

I'd say that it was made around 1993 to 1996, somewhere in there.

I thought it was fairly recent vintage, especially since the AM tunes from 530-1700 kHz. Also, I looked at the back and saw that the unit was made not in Japan, but in Singapore. I didn't think companies which had been based in Japan for years or decades were outsourcing in the mid-'90s. I was always under the impression that outsourcing is a more or less 21st-century concept.

I am still amazed that the Pana boom box now in my possession was thrown out for the trash just because the FM antenna rod was broken at the base (it took me all of five minutes to replace it), and because of old batteries that leaked all over the terminals. As I said in my post, everything else works as well as can be expected, even for a unit made 10-12 years ago. (There are scratches on the tuning dial and in several other places on the unit, but they don't show in the picture attached to my post.) Panasonic must have been making very high quality electronics even then (and still may be today, as I said, if we are to believe what they say on their website--"That DVD player in the den that just won't die? Probably a Panasonic").

[tgunner]

Panasonic has always made high quality electronics. It is only now with their outsourcing to china, that I fear the quality may drop. Also, Why is Panasonic supporting Blu-ray? That's a Sony technology....

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by tgunner

Panasonic has always made high quality electronics. It is only now with their outsourcing to china, that I fear the quality may drop.

I think Panasonic has been outsourcing for some time, at least since the mid-'90s, as my Pana boombox was made in Singapore.