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Chris in North Bay, Ontario provides another rare system, Sharp's HK-9000.
The detacheable speakers are wood, there's an LCD clock with a timer, and this
thing is heavy! We'd appreciate any information you have on when this model was
released, where, MSRP, etc. Thanks Chris!
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Shawn provided a pic of this amazing Sharp with a spectrum analyzer! He's
partial to late '80s/early '90s models. He's also an avid seller of audio
and video stuff on eBay, so see what he's got for sale
here.
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Do you prefer the original green leds or these slick blue ones? Yep, Shawn performed
a nice little hack to his box and replaced the LED spectrum analyzer. This is great! |
Panasonic's massive and loud RX-C300 had a spectrum analyzer too! Bailey in
Sydney emailed this gem found for $90AUS (what a bargain) and provides this information:
"it features a 4 band Tuner, (AM FM SW1 SW2) Phono Input, Aux Input & a Line Out.
It has a Single Auto Reverse Logic Controlled Cassette Deck w/ music search a 5 band Equalizer.
The Amplifier in it is the best i have seen yet in any portable unit, having 30W RMS
per channel (uses 2 Hybrid ICs whereas nearly all others use Monolithic
ICs like the BA,HA,LA,TDA series of output ics) which is coupled to the detatchable
3 way speakers 6.5" woofers + 2" tweeters that are in wooden boxes. The system break
to four pieces: speakers, amp and cassette unit." Thanks Bailey! |
Perhaps one of the most innovative (read: useless) boomboxes is Aiwa's CS-TW80. This
sleak little model from 1987 was equipped with AM/FM and TV sound, dual cassettes and two
RJ-45 jacks in the back. What for? For the telephone answering system, of course! That's
right, the CS-TW80 connected to your phone line to record incoming calls onto cassette. |
Jimmy in Montreal wandered into a pawn shop on a whim one evening and look what he found! This
is a relative to the notorious Conion C-100F, offering all of the bells and whistles of its predecessor in
a gray cabinet. |
Sharp was gutsy in their boombox experimentation, an example being the RX-990. The interface
in the bottom center is a keyboard! If you're an '80s synthesizer enthusiast, look for one of these
to make your collection complete. Thanks go to Rick in New Hampshire for providing a photo of this
exotic piece. |
Nestor in San Diego is the owner of this cool Toshiba. "The RT-SF5 is way cool.
It is feature laden despite the small size. It has an advanced, for its day,
autoreverse cassette mechanism with soft touch controls, a 4 band tuner with 2
shortwave bands and a fine tuning control. Metal and CRO2 tape capability, beat
and stereo wide, external microphone and aux high level source RCA jacks and a
two way speaker system with tiny piezo tweeters. It's all a very complete package,
and a boombox I am most likely to keep." |
