Jimmy in Montreal wandered into a pawn shop on a whim one evening and look what he found! This is a relative of 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 MR-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.”
Burn in Canada provided a shot of his cool Yamaha PC-8. This thing just reeks of ’80s appeal, doesn’t it? AM/FM tuner, five-band eq, slider controls for volume and balance and logic controls. Use it for tunes as your riding your Yamaha motorcycle or jet-ski, or record a sample from your Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer keyboard.
Dj Steve Dub of the B-Boy Boutique in Davison, MI sent us a nice shot of this mid-80s Lloyd’s monster. It’s got twin cassettes, twin LED meters and six large speakers underneath. Looks like those speaker cabinets separate from the main unit. Can anyone confirm?
This ’89 Panasonic RX-CT950 is from the “Fall” of this period. Panasonic was one of the last manufacturers still aiming to provide nice big sound in a quality package. This system offers an LCD readout, detachable speakers and a handy remote. It’s part of the “Platinum Collection.”
Stefan in Ontario provides some nice pictures of two very hi-tech Sonys, the FH-7MKII and FH-7MKIII. Guessing that the only difference is the speaker style; the Mark III seems to offer slightly better ones. Gotta like that brushed aluminum trim too! By the way these were for sale. Chances are he’s got some other good stuff to offer if you’re in the market. Check ebay for some of his auctions, maybe he has a stereo for sale for you!
Two cassettes decks are cool, but how ’bout three? Panasonic tried the idea in their RX-F333. There’s TV sound on this one, too!
Super collector Mia Sparko provides an aerial shot of this collection. Imagine all of these powered up simultaneously with the volume cranked playing your favorite jam…
Andy in Manchester, UK has an excellent boombox collection. One of his recent finds is this sweet Aiwa CA-70, a compact but powerful system with “Acoustic 3D” sound. A bassy middle speaker tucked beneath the controls provides a more dynamic sound.
