next generation box collectors ?
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Lasonic TRC-920
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OK, I got a question for all the young guns....
I know you love you vintage blasters, some of you guys with 60 and 80 radio's is
BUT, If it's all about just having LOUD music, how come your not collecting the new stuff, TDK, that new Sanyo tube, Kaboo ect...?
I know you love you vintage blasters, some of you guys with 60 and 80 radio's is
BUT, If it's all about just having LOUD music, how come your not collecting the new stuff, TDK, that new Sanyo tube, Kaboo ect...?
Zippy
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Lasonic TRC-920 said:OK, I got a question for all the young guns....
I know you love you vintage blasters, some of you guys with 60 and 80 radio's is
BUT, If it's all about just having LOUD music, how come your not collecting the new stuff, TDK, that new Sanyo tube, Kaboo ect...?
Most of them look like crap. I want square boxes, I want chrome, I want dancing needle VUs, I want speakers you can watch thumping - nothing beats the classic look. Also, I want to have something well-built that will last. The modern stuff is mostly not built to last.
And ultimately... I like cassettes
It's cool to have cassettes when your portable music player runs out of battery. It's also cool to make mixtapes and then play them through instead of making a playlist, always skipping certain songs in it and having everybody interrupt tracks to put something on they wish to hear instantly.I'd buy an old Kaboom, but they mostly go for a lot of money. I'm a little mad at JVC that they went with an ipod dock and reduced the quality with the new ones. I really don't like Apple and I don't want a docking station for Apple products. The TDK boomboxes are very expensive, if they were cheaper I'd probably get one. If the new Lasonics were available here I'd get one, too, but I don't want to pay extra for shipping from the US.
SpaceLobster
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Zippy said:Lasonic TRC-920 said:OK, I got a question for all the young guns....
I know you love you vintage blasters, some of you guys with 60 and 80 radio's is
BUT, If it's all about just having LOUD music, how come your not collecting the new stuff, TDK, that new Sanyo tube, Kaboo ect...?
Most of them look like crap. I want square boxes, I want chrome, I want dancing needle VUs, I want speakers you can watch thumping - nothing beats the classic look. Also, I want to have something well-built that will last. The modern stuff is mostly not built to last.
And ultimately... I like cassettes
I'd buy an old Kaboom, but they mostly go for a lot of money. I'm a little mad at JVC that they went with an ipod dock and reduced the quality with the new ones. I really don't like Apple and I don't want a docking station for Apple products. The TDK boomboxes are very expensive, if they were cheaper I'd probably get one. If the new Lasonics were available here I'd get one, too, but I don't want to pay extra for shipping from the US.
I agree with every word Zippy said, spot on!
I also think that the vintage feeling of it is very important. People ask you: does it really work? How old is it? Wow haven't seen one of those in ages! I love that is's old school just like the music, that in many cases it's the same box someone in the 80s used to blast Run-D.M.C. and Public Enemy out of. To carry on the culture and style of those ages is important, these new boxes are just "portable music players" like a new ipod dock or something. If you see someone with one of those you don't think much about it, but with and old blaster you turn heads for sure
Long live the boombox!
Peace
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RadioRaheem
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Lasonic TRC-920 said:OK, I got a question for all the young guns....
I know you love you vintage blasters, some of you guys with 60 and 80 radio's is
BUT, If it's all about just having LOUD music, how come your not collecting the new stuff, TDK, that new Sanyo tube, Kaboo ect...?
easy question, answer: "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FLAVOUR"!!!!!!!!
hardmen
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redbenjoe said:that other thread was getting ' messy '....
and there was a worthy discussion about ..... if we are the LAST group of box fans - ?
then ........... today -- Hardman posted this cool shot -
and it looks to me -- like these ' kids 'from Brazil were not yet alive in the late 70s // early 80s -
yet they are right here // right now into boxes
so perhaps there will be future generations in this game
dont forget --portable music devices that sound GOOD will probably be selling forever
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Ira.
That guys in this picture are all +35 of age.
From left to right: Me (38), Daniel (41) Luciano (36) and Marcelo (38).
In that picture, Daniel and Marcelo have boxes in his houses, but not collectors (Daniel Have a Polyvox RG800 and Marcelo a Polyvox PA-850, both, boxes I gave them)
Collector, only me!!!
I always like Boomboxes, but in my childhood I have no conditions to buy some really special and big... ...my very first one was the CCE CSC830FW (aka Crown CSC-820) and a friend of mine Claudio, had a CCE CSC1000 Jumbo (aka Helix HX-4630) and I always desire that one, but no way to have one back in the day...
So now, I try to buy some boxes that a like but is too strange, because even today the radios have become even more difficult to buy (because when there are rogues getting the radios by offering really low prices and auctions on ebay for absurdly high, we are the collectors who do not own help each other to have the opportunity to meet good radios really fair price).
Cheers.
Lasonic TRC-920 said:OK, I got a question for all the young guns....
I know you love you vintage blasters, some of you guys with 60 and 80 radio's is
BUT, If it's all about just having LOUD music, how come your not collecting the new stuff, TDK, that new Sanyo tube, Kaboo ect...?
It's just about the price for me. I wouldn't spend over $200 on any boombox. I'd be too worried about it getting damaged. This rules out TDK, and apparently the new Kabooms are no good. I've found most of my 70s/80s/90s boxes for under $100.
In the 90s, when I was a kid, I always wanted the Panasonic RX-DT680. Recenltly picked one up for $20! I think they're cool even though other people don't. I think of the 90s as the high-tech decade, and these ones were packed full of digital controls which was the thing back then.
680's are awesome sounding as you know Will. My mother has one (she bought it brand new back in the day). I'll have to find out if she's got the cardboard still.
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JustCruisin
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Fatdog said:Ira is so old, that he even refers to Clint Eastwood as a young whippersnapper.
He is officially the "worst age guesser" ever! 
29 yrs old here and 40 boxes or so.
We are the generation that just missed growing up with these boomers that were for sale in store windows. We saw them in the garage next to Dad's tool box or even the higher quality boxes we saw in grandpa's living room.
. We didn't get the chance to mow lawns to save enough money for them. We saved up our lawn mowing money for Nintendo and Sega.
In 1983 some of you guys were already 10-20 years old and had the chance to window shop these things. I wish I could have.
But growing up for me meant moving a lot from a divorced family and ended up going to 7 different schools in my lifetime
. Sure, I had a boombox, it was silver, single cassette, with shortwave bands, but it ended up getting tossed along the way after it stopped working. Never appreciated it for what it was or what it could be.
Live and learn.
I will pass on what I know to others and see what happens. That's all we can do
It doesn't get any younger than this boys:
And now a year old:
We are the generation that just missed growing up with these boomers that were for sale in store windows. We saw them in the garage next to Dad's tool box or even the higher quality boxes we saw in grandpa's living room.
. We didn't get the chance to mow lawns to save enough money for them. We saved up our lawn mowing money for Nintendo and Sega.In 1983 some of you guys were already 10-20 years old and had the chance to window shop these things. I wish I could have.
But growing up for me meant moving a lot from a divorced family and ended up going to 7 different schools in my lifetime
. Sure, I had a boombox, it was silver, single cassette, with shortwave bands, but it ended up getting tossed along the way after it stopped working. Never appreciated it for what it was or what it could be.Live and learn.
I will pass on what I know to others and see what happens. That's all we can do
It doesn't get any younger than this boys:
And now a year old:
JustCruisin
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chevyman-uy
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JustCruisin
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A couple years ago, my niece would press all the buttons on my GF-9000.. and when she hit the power button, it was dancin time!! 
She was also curious to listen to music through headphones...
It's her 4th Birthday in a few weeks, and im going to give her this SANYO ROBO as a gift! Not sure if she will be a future "collector", but she loves dancin to my boomboxes.... Apparently shes been doing the Robot dance moves that I unknowingly taught her!
She was also curious to listen to music through headphones...
It's her 4th Birthday in a few weeks, and im going to give her this SANYO ROBO as a gift! Not sure if she will be a future "collector", but she loves dancin to my boomboxes....
Apparently shes been doing the Robot dance moves that I unknowingly taught her!
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