Just Curious...

[pare]

Does any one know which boombox featured the 1st Sub woofer?
Just Curious, like when did the makers really started thinking about bass.

Also most makers have bass setting like Megabass, S-XBS, Super bass, DBB etc.
Was it so sony who started it first with DOL (Dynamic Optimum Loudness).
I think they all are the same and i love those adjustment.

what do u say?....

 

[agc]

First box with a sub? Probably either the GF777/767 or Big Ben. When did the manufacturers start thinking about bass? When they came up with the idea of putting 8 inch woofers in what was supposed to be a PORTABLE radio! Then of course there were many boxes with sets of 4 woofers, a few with even more....but I don't think boomboxes got really bass heavy in general until the late 80's or so. The boombox is often associated with the birth of hip-hop; but we must remember hip hop was still wayyy underground in the late 70's/early 80's and these machines were originally built to blast rock, funk, pop, whatever have you. Of course, hip hop came into the mainstream later on in the decade and the big electronics corporations took notice; they had to come up with products that could reproduce that low-end which is crucial to that genre.

As for the various sound enhancement switches; that all trickled down from the 'loudness' switches often found on home hi-fi stereo gear. The clever names are just marketing tools; they all are designed to boost either just the bass, or the bass and treble at low volumes to make the music seem more 'alive'. The better designed circuits will roll off the extreme lows and highs as the volume is increased; others will just push the amp and speakers into distortion as the volume goes up.

I'm pretty sure the 'stereo wide' feature found on many early models is a descendent of the 'faked' quadraphonic effect found on many lower end receivers of the mid to late seventies.

DISCUSS!

 

[mmcodomino]

I believe that would be the Sanyo BigBen...the GF777 just has normal woofers after all...call the super woofers as long as you want
The bigBen has a nice chamber that gives the bass some resonance room making it a subwoofer.

 

[pare]

yes mmc.The big ben may well be the first boombox with a Sub woofer(Free edge one).
About Bass i think it was always there through the years where the speaker had space in the back to move air. But as portable developed like the reel to reel recorders the manufacturer were thinking just about portability so the fitted speakers just for normal hearing. There were radios with deep wooden basket and they should have sounded nice and quiet bassy.As far as portability is concerned they were thinking of flat rectangular boxes (slim) so are the bbxes of the 70s and 80s.The other thing thay wanted to do was make it louder. take a simple exp of a 6 inch speaker in a 7 by 7, 4 inch deep box .when you hear it u will be amazed by how loud it is but after some times u will find its missing lot of the lower bass sounds but it will suite the esrly 80s rap music or some of the 90s tecno pop but overall it will have a limited sound spectrum with great mids and mid bass.Also such speaker will be great as a PAS.
So I think in the early 80s period there was a craze for loud portable bbxes.so they fitted 6.5 to 8 inchers some even 10 inchers so they can get very loud in the sense of distance and go a long way also the bigger voice coil meant it handle the frequencies better than a 4 incher.The Gf777 etc look to be built to make A big statement and i belive it can get very loud. The GF may well be the blaster winner.but why are 6.5 incher outer speakers pinning against 6.5 super woofers in a rim to rim filled box, the outer speakers will always kill the bass from the super woofers they should at least had smaller outer speakers like the riddimvox etc. I Like sharp since I have a 21 CRT(CZAR Sound evolution) with couple 3 inch (white) woofers and they go very low and are very loud considering their size.I just don’t think that only bigger size means bigger bass.A speaker must be backed with its design to sound better.i don’t mean to say that the early 80s had no bass but i think it could had better .They were designed as per the time and fashion.
But i like some 80s stuff like the aiwa acoustic 3D though it has flat design the speakers(also free edge I think) are smaller and have enough air and the passive radiator is a great space saving thing. Also the sansui s 3 piece and of course the Toshiba passive boxes. The hitachi 3d are also great as they have some space for the woofers.
Also the bass enhancement like DBB, Mega bass may be the loudness button but i heard a low grade boombox with loudness and wide sound and it thought it sounded better without it . I first heard heard DBB in a phillips bbox of the 90s and i was impressed with it.Then i heard some aiwa and sony walkys with super and mega bass and wow they sound great. But if you turn it off it sounded thin.I like this bass enhancements.

I may be wrong this is just my opinion. Sorry i love to hear music in the house.

 

[stormsven]

I cant catch the whole idea here. But to expect really low bass from tiny plastic box with no acoustic separation and lot of resonance is pure himera. All those rattling speakers are distortin actually in really low volume for the people familiar with the sounds. So the boomers are just for look and fun. Not to expect a really good and especially real low bass. All those xbass, extra woofers and so are just for marketing purposes noting really to count. Until first boomblasters/kabooms nothing 2go have even close to deep bass. Its other story which people which sound are hearing. For beginning is good to try pest repellant electronic device and if can hear it is good to go to music . Than if you feel the beat of the music with your pulse and your body empty spaces we are talkin about some bass....
But who cares about boomboxes - we just love em

 

[daves]

I could not tell which boombox mounted it before, but was founded in 1974 by the need to reproduce the effect of an earthquake in a film, called "earthquake"!

 

[Sazeus]

Could have been this one

 

[agc]

is that a Marantz with a subwoofer in place of the fold-down turntable?

 

[Sazeus]

is that a Marantz with a subwoofer in place of the fold-down turntable?

yeah awesome huh? Unix CRS-5800. I just got a rough unit of turntable one then spotted this on stereo80s, looks insane Mine's missing the Unix badge

 

[BoomboxLover48]

is that a Marantz with a subwoofer in place of the fold-down turntable?

yeah awesome huh? Unix CRS-5800. I just got a rough unit of turntable one then spotted this on stereo80s, looks insane Mine's missing the Unix badge

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I am sure Superduper (Norm) also got a Marantz similar to this. This is a beautiful Macho Box!