Return to top page
You're viewing Page Eleven of our Golden Age section of the
Boombox Museum. Click here to
view Page One, or the above link to start at the
beginning.
|
Our buddy Dean from Boston visited a friend in New York and
was floored to see his apartment peppered with systems like this
Toshiba "Bom Beat" WX-1. Says Dean, "This is the ADRES model (Automatic
Dynamic Range Expansion System) with insane mixing and EDITING
capabilities, phono preamp, some unusual detachable speaker
setup, double cassette, SW1&2, Toshiba "Passive Radiator" speakers,
and more than a few offbeat controls like "Beat". Owner is a
paint collector, check out the cans on the side for sizing." By the
way, Dean is a spray paint can collector; check out his site
rustmagic, an effort to
preserve classic aerosol and spray paint cans.
|
Minty Sharp GF-666, eh? Jimmy from Montreal suspects this was
the first boombox equipped with twin cassettes: he estimates the date
of manufacture at around 1981. Notice the cassette controls designed
specifically for Sharp's APLD music locator system. Very cool...definitely
a tape bootlegger's dream machine.
|
Mia Sparko (Marco Matias) is a vintage Hip Hop Colture collector of many styles. Obviously,
stereos come with the territory, and he's been avid collector since 1989. Here's
one of his pieces, the street-wise Rising. Looking for a piece in particular?
Shoot him an email at rpm2@cox.net, maybe he can help.
|
This gorgeous system is branded under the National name, which suggests its
sale in Asia or Europe. It'd have the Panasonic brand if sold in North or South
America. This is the RX-5700 and it is quite gorgeous, but I can't help but feel
in belongs in someone's library (like mine), and not on a street corner.
|
Javier in Florida shows off a sweet Sharp GF-9595. One of the first "PLL
synthesizer" tuners offered on boombox, for sure. This must have been a costly
feature at the time, as systems continued to ship with analog tuning well into the
early '90s. Sharp was indeed an innovator in the boombox market.
|
Jens has contributed so much to this site, and we sure appreciate it. Here's
his latest find, a National RX-5300. This system has all the typical good stuff plus
TV sound!
|
Micha from Weimar Germany wakes to this monster Sharp VZ-2500 every morning. Says Micha,
"I found it on a "flohmarkt" for 15€. then i invested 60€ more for new stylus and
(riemen). I think i`ll try to get a new lp-window and some buttons are old and scratchy."
|
Another Trident golden ghettoblaster. Marco copped this at the local Swap Meet, $12.00.
If you see him at the Swap Meet RUN! Just hope he doesn't catch you on that classic
Raleigh chopper.
|
