I've never soldered on the small stuff except for wires, they tend to get put on the shelf cue while I work on the big stuff. This summer I've...
Just found this little guy from 1972, the Toshiba RT-293F. This very old boombox is not on the wikiboombox!!!! [ATTACH]
Dual antennas always look good! I'm a big fan of the mid-size boomboxes, they don't get a ton of respect but if you line them up, they are close...
Flea market this weekend, cross your fingers, maybe I'll find something cool, last month was a bust with zero anything... Derek, you might want...
It gives me hope, he also has CJ (cassette jockey) horizontal dual decks! The cassette deck/DVD might be the hybred that would have set the...
I'm in like Flynn! What's not to like, gold plating, dual spectrum STROBE VU lights, awsome! The little nAKAI Boombox looks very promising.
I have a pretty big collection of AIWAs including a really old portable turntable from the 60s. They always seemed to be a little more...
The power supply is huge and it's 13.5 volts, center pin negative. The unit would be 2x as big if we included the power brick. My theory is they...
aiwa XP-300 from 1996 [ATTACH]
Magnavox CD Player, they all started looking like this around 1996 [ATTACH]
I meant the same model receivers and tape decks, some of the marantz's around this time were really low-budget stuff and that's all I ever saw.
Nice! Is the power issue with the tape deck? I don't think it matters since it's an FM transmission. I've never noticed mine powering down,...
As a student of design I get suckered in by all of these little marvels and I love music or talk radio, especially lugging 50 lb bags all day,...
maxell 1993 [ATTACH]
Just found this guy with some killer boomboxes....
Welcome! We used to have a lot of "big" collectors located in Berlin, Radio Heir used to have that huge wall of boomers and the famous photo but...
You could probably get some ABS sheet, you can cut it with woodworking tools and glue it with ABS cement. Build up one side and drill a hole...
It's amazing how many tapes still sound good, fell free to post what you have, there's a tape listening thread around here somewhere.
Welcome to the forum! Too bad you don't still have that 838, those things are like gold now, I bought one a few years ago and it was an adventure...
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