SEQ-50 is interesting, I thought of trying one, the added hiss is a non starter, but then I searched for other alternatives and there are many....
SY-8801 "Beautiful Radio" is about $20 on e-bay. After 4 months I sent for another "spare". It is a good little radio. 4AA runs it for about 5...
That Technics deck indeed have the correct coarse thread machine screws: Perfect fit and I got the feet on correctly :thumbsup: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thread checker is good idea... might be worth getting one too.
Yeah the JVC is heavy. I still have it. Put the 5 disc CD player outside and someone took that quickly. The Technics deck, I had that apart...
It's not a boombox but there was no other suitable I found this! section to put it: A fresh find in the corner of the Parkade the other day....
Great idea! Unable to contribute anything myself though as I too am "new" and did not have any boombox back then. Let alone a picture. I wonder...
If you go to the Discogs site you will find hundreds of cassette tapes of The Dark Side of The Moon for sale. Well, 267 total, with 64 in USA...
I guess someone won a D-311? So Sony was looking for the lowest serial D-5 to see who jumped and bought one first. But what is not clear is if...
If you compare an FM station on the 550 to another stereo radio / boombox there should be a difference due to the "Stereo Matrix sound". I used...
I like reading about these detailed diagnostic "chases" of strange problems / mysteries !
That is glue. To hold the big components down like Longman said. I have come across identical brown glue like that around big capacitors in the...
Nice link and some good videos there to help people out.
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