What do you prefure 1 peice or 3 peice boxes

[LLopez]

I like both 1 and 3 piece boomboxes but to carry around and provide great sound I preffer the Sansui FX-300 as a 1 peacer, As a 3 peacer I preffer the Panasonic RX-45 cause both have great sound for its size and don't have to break a sweat carrying either one.

 

[floyd]

i prefer 1 piece boxes ,i just wish they would have made the pc 55 a 1 piece box roughly the same size as the m90 or bigger with 8'' ceramic woofers and a wooden case now that would be awesome!.

 

[jaetee]

I remember people complaining and it being on the news and the city of Los Angeles putting bans on boomboxes, skateboarding and car cruising and it all led straight into car stereo ticketing, gang control, Rodney King, high taxes, unemployment and WAR!

I hear you, Lasonic...

Greatest words ever spoken amid all of that chaos! "Can't we all just get along? " - Rodney King

Personally, it's the one-piece boxes that particularly float my boat... While I can see the convenience and benefit of a 3-piece box, the one-piecers are really what kick-started the fad and caught my attention early on. And it's still that way.

Right now I have only one 3-piece box in my collection, a JVC PC-3 and I can live with that for the time being... Although I will admit I've been eyeballing some of the more prominent ones like the HiFi Studio 1 or the PC-55 as well.

 

[Johnny]

I remember people complaining and it being on the news and the city of Los Angeles putting bans on boomboxes, skateboarding and car cruising and it all led straight into car stereo ticketing, gang control, Rodney King, high taxes, unemployment and WAR!

I hear you, Lasonic...

Greatest words ever spoken amid all of that chaos! "Can't we all just get along? " - Rodney King

Personally, it's the one-piece boxes that particularly float my boat... While I can see the convenience and benefit of a 3-piece box, the one-piecers are really what kick-started the fad and caught my attention early on. And it's still that way.

Right now I have only one 3-piece box in my collection, a JVC PC-3 and I can live with that for the time being... Although I will admit I've been eyeballing some of the more prominent ones like the HiFi Studio 1 or the PC-55 as well.

I regret selling my Studio 1M it was a animal!!!

I have several 3 piecer's, and enjoy them all - I like some as much or more than some of my 1 piecers for sure - but that just my personal tastes

SonyFH7 MKII
JVC PC-550
JVC PC-11
MONA MS3030
HELIX 905
Sony CPD 7655
Sharp WF939Z
Lasonic LPC-93
Toshiba WX-1

Thats enough for me for now (I'm sure I forgot a couple)...

 

[retrohead]

one piece all the way for me

 

[LJV]

I definitely prefer one piece units. 3 pieces are conceptually one generation behind one piece boomboxes. They are just micro or mini HIFI with carrying handle and detachable speakers. Late 80s 3 pieces also marked the drop of quality relative to boomboxes, cheaper plastic, monolithic simplified design, dark tones, ending with black dull plastic, just as if they were following the decline and death of rock music. Gradually they've lost the casualness, youthfulness of bright or warm colored, shiny one piece devices of the early to mid-80s.

For me It's the esthetics that attracts me to one piece, but not even all one piece are ok by me. They have to be with analog radio, and wide dial that exceeds the width of central deck area. Digital tuner or narrow dial make it look like 3 piece, since speakers boxes become as high as the unit.

This is the one where you can actually see the transition, and I've considered it as rotten compromise, because it has round speaker covers, 3 way speakers, nice leds, and lots of knobs instead of sliders. What drives me away is top left detail, and unless I'm wrong that is completely obsolete equalizer with just 3 sliders, which is pathetic.

I think it is a Hitachi, but I'm not sure, since seller didn't leave any info, apart that it is Japanese.

 

[Northerner]

All mine are one piecers apart from my Sanyo C7 which is a 5 piecer, got nothing in between Until I picked up the C7 I would've said I wouldn't have anything but a one piecer but this C7 has really grown on me

 

[LJV]

All mine are one piecers apart from my Sanyo C7 which is a 5 piecer, got nothing in between Until I picked up the C7 I would've said I wouldn't have anything but a one piecer but this C7 has really grown on me

With your shipping luck, you need something like this

BTW, check simple and inexpensive feature - potentiometer for adjustment of tape speed.

 

[Northerner]

as beautiful as that is ...it has a cd player which makes it just plain wrong IMO

plus I've never had a shipping problem myself...the only one I got which was really appallingly packed, with literally just thin cardboard taped to each side, still made it to me intact with only a little dent to the grill

 

[jimmyjimmy19702010]

I definitely prefer one piece units. 3 pieces are conceptually one generation behind one piece boomboxes. They are just micro or mini HIFI with carrying handle and detachable speakers. Late 80s 3 pieces also marked the drop of quality relative to boomboxes, cheaper plastic, monolithic simplified design, dark tones, ending with black dull plastic, just as if they were following the decline and death of rock music. Gradually they've lost the casualness, youthfulness of bright or warm colored, shiny one piece devices of the early to mid-80s.

For me It's the esthetics that attracts me to one piece, but not even all one piece are ok by me. They have to be with analog radio, and wide dial that exceeds the width of central deck area. Digital tuner or narrow dial make it look like 3 piece, since speakers boxes become as high as the unit.

This is the one where you can actually see the transition, and I've considered it as rotten compromise, because it has round speaker covers, 3 way speakers, nice leds, and lots of knobs instead of sliders. What drives me away is top left detail, and unless I'm wrong that is completely obsolete equalizer with just 3 sliders, which is pathetic.

I think it is a Hitachi, but I'm not sure, since seller didn't leave any info, apart that it is Japanese.
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I think you'll find 3 piecers go right back to the late 70s. I've got a 3 piece Hitachi 9140K from 1979 that is probably the best built box I've ever seen - over 11 kg and it has more bass than many 1 piece units. The classic 1 piece units with the central tape deck etc do have 'the look' though.

James....

 

[LJV]

Yes, it's the eternal agony of choice between better sounding 3 pieces, and worse sounding 1 piece lookers.

I'm so hooked on design, that at this very moment, the one I desire the most is this mean mini, It is as eights as it can be. If I was misunderstood so far, now you know what kind of design and age I like. For me, this is the masterpiece, a row model for 80s design.

But when I read that it has 3W output, the circle closes again, and I'm nowhere I guess that the real thing would be to buy several different ones - one elegant mini for bedroom, another mini one for dining room, big 1piece big boombox for your own study room, and 3 piece for the living room. Put all of them on same FM frequency, let the mp3 FM transmitter broadcast the music, and touch them only with micro-fiber cloth then turning off.