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Those who are on FB likely already know this but, Bumpboxx is planning on taking the M90 project on! Not only that, but Rob tells me that the cassette deck WILL BE FULL LOGIC with touch controls! I literally fell over in my chair. HOLY COW!! I was going to pass on one and wait for them to do a C100 until I heard this. I am so happy about that. I hope there are enough people out there that feel the same that would want to buy one. It's obvioulsy going to raise the price but then again, the M90 was one of the most expensive boomboxes for a reason. It's main attraction was the quality of the deck. They didn't add any lights outside of a stereo and power LED. All the money and effort was put into sound quality, durability and that one of a kind cassette mechanism.

Just when I thought I couldn't get anymore excited about my BB-777 coming, I get this news.

I raised my opinions about this radio using a mechanical deck that might not have been appreciated by some. In my mind having a mechanical deck with push button keys would ruin the build. Not only in functionality but appearance. I get all of the business reasons why it might not make sense to build a higher end deck. Mainly with cost and being profitable to sell enough units to justify the expense and effort and so forth but, IMO, if you're going to do the KING, might as well do it right and it sounds like they are :-) We all know cassettes have surged in popularity lately but that ship will sail after a while. If there ever was a time to sell a boombox with a next level cassette mech in there, it's now.

Good for them. I think they are making the right move and they have my business as a result. This is going to make anyone who has been waiting for a M90 extremely happy!
 
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IDLookout

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The question is: Which of the 3 colors?

Champagne Gold: Interesting. Not sure what demographic they are going for? Might look sweet in person.
Graphite Silver: Not too bad. I only have 1 grey Boombox I think. Not really much Silver to be seen.
Stealth Black: Looks like it belongs. Feels right.

Soooo... Hmmm... I'll think on it. I have a Silver FE BB-777 coming some day (lol), Trying to think which color would go best sitting next to it.
 
THXjay

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It's great news and was the ovbious choice. I think we all knew this would be the 2nd choice (I presume the Conion will be 3rd) and the logic controls is a good choice, hopefully they can keep upping the quality with each model.
I'm not a fan of the gloss black (dust and fingerprints) or the champagne gold but I appreciate some will love them. For me it's the classic gray all the way.

My one gripe is the blue cones. I know some of the originals had blue cones but the vast majority are black. I'm still not sure on the origin of the blue cones, I've heard that it was down to the material changing colour over time, whilst some say it was a limited release, either way I still prefer the black.

I have knocked up a quick image to show a couple my own ideas to "improve" it (in my opinion). I think the display looks overblown and too large and a bit tacky looking. I don't like the bumpboxx logo being printed on, I would prefer the 3D metallic logo as featured on the BB777.
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Brutus442 said:
My biggest problem with the BB90 is how the hell I'm going to explain another "bluetooth" radio to my wife. I just hope I can get a wifi signal under the bridge I'll be living under.
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My wife has already asked me why I need two of them (referring to the OG unit and the New).....all while picking out which pair of shoes she's going out in for the day. :blush:
 
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