Even the old packaging is saveable, I remember hating blister-pacs when they started showing up in the late 80's.
Most Marantz/Superscopes have a very mature sound, a little more than contemporary boomboxes from the late 70's, even these midis, but of course...
Neat, I love the oddball stuff, channel changer on the cord is so made for a Wall Street 80's Movie. I'd love to see some of the "war rooms" of...
It looks to be later 80's? There's a few Unitech Discussions on here, they had some really neat boomboxes and portables but they also had a ton...
Great project! I'm getting to the point where I can't find some of my cool ones, I'm assuming the "4" has four radio bands? In case you don't...
Old thread Reli, Richlooker seems to be long gone. Personally I'd never cut into those iconic boxes unless they were already basket cases. The...
Those waning days of the 70's was a great time for musical variety with the Police coming out of nowhere and blowing up like crazy. Add another...
Welcome shadeone! I think we're up to around seven members up here, one day we'll have enough for a party.
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His board looks like it had some modifications with that new board inserted, does yours have the same thing? I love the FM transmitting models,...
If it works you'd be better off selling it and buying parts for a DIY boombox, a shop would probably laugh at you, maybe a car audio place might...
Yea, I just meant he's trying to find something for his smaller room but sometimes it's very difficult. Those little Bose Speakers would fit...
Chinese Story about the death of the Walkman 2005...
It's kind of like when we were sold that tiny speakers, in the right places would power the world into Bose Supremacy of TV audio. Those tiny...
I'm just a passive observer but I thought Technics had the first soft-touch deck around 77, the seems to have beat that one. In my little world...
Found on Mercari Japan, a very old Standard Boombox, maybe from just before the Marantz Takeover? The Standard KR-1600J is for sale now! I think...
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An ad found over on X with pricing fro the Sony TC-2860SD, it looks like this has the added protection bar. Superscope had some early models like...
I'm loving the new translation feature on YT, here's a cool video on the TC-2850SD. Holy corrosion Batman, yep that's pretty common on equipment...
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