Mines was a Sony I worked a summer job and bought it from Best Products it was around 1978 or 79 it was the biggest 1 that Best had at the time I don't remember the model it just a plain 2 speaker boombox no tweeters and it had just a tone controller on it it was pretty nice for that time
Whats was the 1st boombox you owned
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floyd
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my first boombox i still have , its a sears sr 2100 and it was almost the cheapest model you could buy. i was happy to have it because up till then all i had was a pocket transistor radio .
Radio raheem
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My first 3 were Akai pj33 panasonic rx c 52 and jvc dc 33l....went every where with the jvc, school work everywhere lol
Always wanted the jvc pc 55 back then but never managed that one until i started collecting in the early 2000's
Always wanted the jvc pc 55 back then but never managed that one until i started collecting in the early 2000's
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skippy1969
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Mine was a Sanyo M9902-2. I still have it
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Madadh
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Bought my first boombox at an antique store. Twas a GE 3-5667A. Not great. 90's Egg, sold it last year for $20.
Now I'm thinking about trading a few of my current boxes for a single, vintage high quality Ghettoblaster in great working condition...
Now I'm thinking about trading a few of my current boxes for a single, vintage high quality Ghettoblaster in great working condition...
masterblaster
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I found this ghettoblaster in 2012, it was the 1st in my collection!
See my video on Youtube;
Supertech Ghettoblaster Super Jumbo J747-S boombox stereo portable radio cassette - YouTube
See my video on Youtube;
Supertech Ghettoblaster Super Jumbo J747-S boombox stereo portable radio cassette - YouTube
Valde
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The first box i got was an small mono Phillips. Box with no boom. Later i got an stereo box, store brand "Radionette" Korean mid 80's box. Young and dumb, the box later got butchered for parts and i remember the led vu meter got tranplated into an Tandberg tr amplifier.... I found the same box a while ago and picked it up. Much smaller than I remember. Se picture below in front of an GF-8686 for size. Cool little box with metal bars in front of the speakers and metal bracket for coaxial mouted tweeters.
I allso managed to find "the one that got away". My great grandmother got an Sony CF-580 that her sailor son bought her new in Japan. I always looked at the Sony when I visited her. She told me that the Sony was mine when she no longer had any use for it. She passed away when I was early teanager, and the first thing my bone-head relatives did, was to throw allmost all her stuff including the Sony.
I allso managed to find "the one that got away". My great grandmother got an Sony CF-580 that her sailor son bought her new in Japan. I always looked at the Sony when I visited her. She told me that the Sony was mine when she no longer had any use for it. She passed away when I was early teanager, and the first thing my bone-head relatives did, was to throw allmost all her stuff including the Sony.
The Radionette above was my first. Mine was lost in a fire. Thanks for posting the pictures Valde. Would love to find one again.
samovar
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Grundig Party Center 2200 (mine was actually black). I got it as a present the year it appeared on the market (1986). It was stolen about ten years later. Only after a long and vane search for another one I realized that radio cassettes, as people used to call them, were not anymore an easy find in regular electronic shops. It was precisely at that moment that my boomboxmania started, slowly but surely.
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Tinman
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Your pic made me laugh because my sister used to carry around a tape recorder every where she went.
One of hers was either the same or a very similar model to the one in your pic.
I remember it looked like this:
rivetmaster
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Here's me in 1985 with my HITACHI TRK 7720E. A really nice machine that I treated awfully. It only lasted 2 years. 
Brutus442
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A Candle JTR 1249 (a Christmas gift) started me down this addictive road. I still have it and it will never leave my collection
hemiguy2006
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Transistorized
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The first and actually only one I can name was a SHARP GX CD60H. Long before I had two no-name devices - a small mono one which was more like a radio that could by chance also play/record cassettes. 
Later I was ripped off by the local department store selling me a double tape boombox with a terrible noisy record unit. Actually no sense in making any records from radio, not to mention cassette to cassette copies... So after school I thought with my first self earned money I need to go BIG with some quality and ended up with the SHARP.
Later I was ripped off by the local department store selling me a double tape boombox with a terrible noisy record unit. Actually no sense in making any records from radio, not to mention cassette to cassette copies... So after school I thought with my first self earned money I need to go BIG with some quality and ended up with the SHARP.
lupogtiboy
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My first 'proper' boombox was a Panasonic RX-FT500 that my parents bought for me. My brother got a Sharp boombox as he is a Man UTD fan, and they were sponsored by Sharp at the time. I had mine hooked up to our Amiga 500+ and at the time, I though it sounded pretty good. I lent it to a mate when he was decorating his flat and never got it back, so no idea what happened to it, but I do have one in my collection now, along with a few others that came out in that range at the time that were slightly better spec'd.
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This hit home for me. I was ripped off by a vendor selling a Viking boombox, only to discover it was also sold as an aka ' Prosonic " and I found that same box in the Prosonic name at FAR less than the Viking. I complained so much the manager just gave me store credit (because the box was opened and played). I was pissed I couldn't get my money back so I bought a sh!t ton of clothes and came back the next day and exchanged it for cash. A day later I had the Prosonic in my hands...take that Eaton's! (original store)The first and actually only one I can name was a SHARP GX CD60H. Long before I had two no-name devices - a small mono one which was more like a radio that could by chance also play/record cassettes.
Funny I used my JVC -PC-550 as an amp for my Amiga 500! Good times...
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