Delivery today!!! One off the short list

[hemiguy2006]

Now heres one thats eluded me for years!!!
Glad to have finally made his acquaintance because he rocks!!!
Will post some glam shots once its detailed.

 

[monchito]

wow frank that is a awesome looking box ,,, how does it sound???? man thats a gorgeous box

 

[redbenjoe]

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
a most serious huge grail-
i think that ONLY norm has one ?

it looks so rare and so good

how does it sound vs your 5350 ??

 

[Superduper]

Congrats and Welcome to the club. That is a hard one to ever let go of. Does your automatic meter switching feature still work? In other words when you touch the tuning knob, does it automatically swtich over from VU to batt/tuning function?

 

[oldskool69]

My gosh that is one sexy beast! Yes Frank! How does it sound?!?!?!

 

[hemiguy2006]

The sound from this box is pretty impressive to say the least.
I have been wanting to hear one for years and I can fairly say it did live up to my expectations.
Norm, that feature does work!!! It kind of weirded me out at first until i realized what it was doing.
I was going to ask if yours did that as well and also how does it work????
I have NEVER seen such a unique feature on a boombox EVER!!!
And the four presets are really neat to have. its like the radio has 4 separate tuners?
I did not pit it against the 5350 yet, I just put it up there for size reference but I can tell you this
it is probably every bit as loud and the build quality is every bit as nice.
Things I have to do aside from detail it is get the deck working and figure out what I believe
is a ground issue on the line in.
It has a quiet low level hum when line in is selected that goes away when you touch the antennas
or any of the jacks or ground lug on the side of the radio. Other than that I am very happy with it , and
i got a what I feel was a surprisingly good bargain on it.
Its like Norm said it would be very difficult to ever let go of a box like this!!!!

 

[mellymelsr]

That thing looks like a beast!! Very nice find...

 

[baddboybill]

That is a very nice speciman for a BBX

 

[MONOLITHIC]

Congratulations!

Back in 1987, my friend Jermaine had a gold International version of that box... Wound up being the very 1st victim of my brand new TRC-931 when I took it over his house to find out which box was loudest.

My box was louder but I envied those green LED meters on his International 'cause at night you could see 'em flashing all the way down the street...
Seriously made me consider reversing the colors of the LED meters on my box but I never got around to it...

That said, I hope I can one day find the same box he had... I'll probably have to settle for a Clairtone tho 'cause if the Clairtone is rare,
the International is like the gold C-100F or BomBeat 40.

 

[Gluecifer]

Geezum crow!!! That's one hell of a HOT blaster.
So very individual in features.. astounding!

Superb job, Frank! That's one pure killer box.

.....I best add her to my long list!!



Rock On.

 

[alfie]

An absolute BEAUTY!!!!!!!

Looks minty fresh to boot, nice work.............................

 

[kingrat2010]

beautiful design, like stacked bricks

 

[Uncle Ed]

Enjoy it, its a beauty and we all know it has gone to one of the best homes and owners it could have.

(other than Ira, of course)

 

[redbenjoe]

notice how efficient it is....
just ONE AA

 

[skippy1969]

WOW!
Thats a beauty Frank!
Congrats man!

 

[Fatdog]

I'm gonna be first in line at the next meet just so I can get my fat, little fingers on that thing before anybody else. Superbly done, Frank. Is that the Clairtone 7979?

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Love it Frank, it's bigger than I thought it was.
The deep set woofs look like they mean business, almost like they could hammer a nail in the wall when they get going.

 

[Zippy]

Wow, that is one marvellous piece of art

 

[hemiguy2006]

Thanks for all the positive input guys!
I am very siked about it.
In fact I can't wait to get home today to enjoy it again.
Its been a while since I've been this excited about a boombox.
Btw yes Bobby this is the 7979 Model sorry I forgot to mention that

 

[bill]

that is a great looking unit. i have a friend who has one he has had since he got it when he lived in quebec.
clairtone was once a pretty famous canadian company.
that unit is super frank and you would be hard pressed to find another as nice as that.