Review of Yorx BP1000

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Lasonic TRC-920

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Here are some Pictures and Video (now in HD!) of the Yorx BP1000 that a friend of mine gave me. We’ll, I paid him the $8.00 he bought it for :yes:

This is a triple cassette deck player, with one deck that pops out to become a walkman (Walkgirl is going to love this thing!). It has a 3 band eq disguised as a 6 band ;-) and individual volume sliders.

This radio has some interesting features, like the way the detachable speakers lock in place when the handle is up and the way the two main cassette decks are sideways!

This unit will record from decks A to B and it also has continuous playback from deck A to B and from B to C! So it will play one side of 3 tapes continuously. So if you have three 90 minute cassettes, 45 minutes per side of 3 cassettes, this unit would play for 135 minutes non stop. That’s pretty damn cool. :sin: :cool:

It’s a 4 speaker system has one antenna (original), has a clean battery box and battery cover, even the walkman still has it's battery cover and runs on 6 D cell batteries.

The issues that I have found:

The antenna needs the brass washers put back in for it to stand up. Decks A&B play slow, ff & rw works, but I think the belts are slipping, so both need a re-belt. The walkman plays perfectly on batteries, but not in the boombox. I can see there is corrosion on the contacts of the walkman to the power supply of the boombox. No big deal. The walkman is missing one button, but the stop button is identical to the one missing. Bredgeo!!!!

She's going to need a full cleaning!

BTW, when was the last time you listened to a walkman of this era? These things are F'n LOUD! No joke, I plugged in my headphones to my cell phone and into this and this is WAY SCREAMIN' ASS LOUDER! :-O :hmmm: :thumbsup:

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Lasonic TRC-920

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Superduper said:
Nice review Chris but you forgot to say...........

How DO YOU LIKE IT? :hmmm:

You know.....I don't know....I think I need to spend some time with it. I was just listening to the walkman through some old school Sony headphones and WOW, I so remember "That Sound" from back in the day. I did make another video that I need to post of the radio playing, but I don't get good reception here, so it was scratchy. I'll need to get the decks going, probably clean the contacts on the walkman and see if I can get power to it for play back as the other two need belts.

So Norm, you said you had one of these, what kind of shape is yours in? Have you ever worked on it? Easy? Is it all there? Pictures?
 

Gluecifer

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LOVE this radio!! I'm not a massive fan of any component/threepiecer radios, but this one tickles my fancy to the point of obsession!!!

Utterly gorgeous graphics and design. And the three-deck gimmicks are totally mind blowing!

If anyone's looking at selling one please keep me in mind.

A real work of art. Thanks mucho for the hot review Chris!



Rock On.
 

Lasonic TRC-920

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Gluecifer said:
LOVE this radio!! I'm not a massive fan of any component/threepiecer radios, but this one tickles my fancy to the point of obsession!!!

Utterly gorgeous graphics and design. And the three-deck gimmicks are totally mind blowing!

If anyone's looking at selling one please keep me in mind.

A real work of art. Thanks mucho for the hot review Chris!



Rock On.

I totally know what you mean Rick, when I saw this at my buddies I thought, wow, that is a unique radio. I always like things that do other things! IT'S A TRANSFORMER!

I do remember stuff like this back in the day. I never really paid much attention back then because my eye always followed the big noise makers around back then (and now :lol: ). For me, it's really like seeing it for the first time.
 

baddboybill

Boomus Fidelis
Very cool little find Chris :thumbsup: I was always intrigued with the way these came apart for a Walkman style stereo. I also always wanted the stereo cassette Walkman with the fm tape tuner you just slide into tape deck :-D here is a Unisef I picked up a couple years ago for like a buck or two ;-)
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blu_fuz

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Todays youth would call that a "ipod docking station" - where you take your portable music device and "dock" it to a larger audio output unit.

So we call it a "walkman docking station" :lol:
 

Lasonic TRC-920

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baddboybill said:
Very cool little find Chris :thumbsup: I was always intrigued with the way these came apart for a Walkman style stereo. I also always wanted the stereo cassette Walkman with the fm tape tuner you just slide into tape deck :-D here is a Unisef I picked up a couple years ago for like a buck or two ;-)
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Nice Unisef! Can you play the radio without the cassette? The price was right, that's for sure!

blu_fuz said:
Todays youth would call that a "ipod docking station" - where you take your portable music device and "dock" it to a larger audio output unit.

So we call it a "walkman docking station" :lol:

That's exactly what it is, a docking station! I wonder if I could make a ipod dock that would slide into where the cassette goes! :w00t:
 

baddboybill

Boomus Fidelis
Lasonic TRC-920 said:
baddboybill said:
Very cool little find Chris :thumbsup: I was always intrigued with the way these came apart for a Walkman style stereo. I also always wanted the stereo cassette Walkman with the fm tape tuner you just slide into tape deck :-D here is a Unisef I picked up a couple years ago for like a buck or two ;-)
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Nice Unisef! Can you play the radio without the cassette? The price was right, that's for sure!

No the deck has the volume control on it :thumbsdown: But I did get the unit working great except in mono because only one channel works on amp for the speakers, but it does work in stereo with headphones :thumbsup: It's still a fun unit :-D
 

Lasonic TRC-920

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baddboybill said:
Lasonic TRC-920 said:
baddboybill said:
Very cool little find Chris :thumbsup: I was always intrigued with the way these came apart for a Walkman style stereo. I also always wanted the stereo cassette Walkman with the fm tape tuner you just slide into tape deck :-D here is a Unisef I picked up a couple years ago for like a buck or two ;-)
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Nice Unisef! Can you play the radio without the cassette? The price was right, that's for sure!

No the deck has the volume control on it :thumbsdown: But I did get the unit working great except in mono because only one channel works on amp for the speakers, but it does work in stereo with headphones :thumbsup: It's still a fun unit :-D

Interesting....I guess it was meant as one or the other....I still dig this style of radio! Smart...seems like they were trying anything to hang on to the blaster market, while the walkman started to take over!
 

oldskool69

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Gluecifer said:
...I'm not a massive fan of any component/threepiecer radios.....Rock On.


Then perhaps I need to come to Austrailia and help you offload yours Rick? :hmmm: :w00t: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Nice Yorx though! :thumbsup:
 

Gluecifer

Member (SA)
Haha, I knew I'd get a response from you, Freddie!

But I'd honestly trade a sansui/denon/yamaha/technics/etc for this Yorx.



Rock On.
 

Lasonic TRC-920

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Gluecifer said:
Haha, I knew I'd get a response from you, Freddie!

But I'd honestly trade a sansui/denon/yamaha/technics/etc for this Yorx.



Rock On.

OH!

I want to see pic's of said "sansui/denon/yamaha/technics/etc"

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Gluecifer

Member (SA)
I may be scoring one off another esteemed member since vocalising my interest! But here they are Chris:

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Rock On.
 

retrohead

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the yorx bp10........ive just been given an alba version off a good friend,but it has some issues,particularly with the walkman,needs new belts and a motor,and the power switch is malfunctioning on the main section....how common are the york bp 10s?if i could get a spares walkman i could canabilise it and put them into my alba instead :hmmm:
 

Lasonic TRC-920

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retrohead said:
the yorx bp10........ive just been given an alba version off a good friend,but it has some issues,particularly with the walkman,needs new belts and a motor,and the power switch is malfunctioning on the main section....how common are the york bp 10s?if i could get a spares walkman i could canabilise it and put them into my alba instead :hmmm:
There is one on eBay America right now $59
 

superlew

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Always reminds me of Double Dare and Finders Keepers.
I'll pick one up if I stumble across one. I (almost) never buy boxes from eBay, though I know there are usually one or two floating around.
"Yorx!"
 
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