Your Most Destorted box
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but after thinking about it, the i931 I used to have started to distort after 34 (the volume tops out at 40). But anyway, my most distorted box is my Aiwa CA -100C... from ANY volume setting.
bill
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so this is my experience with the most distorted boomboxes...
anything made by mtc jij candle has not given me any degree of nice sound.
i am sure there is exceptions but these have been the worst brands for sound to my ears.
the box i have that really is a huge let down for sound was the huge samsung mono tv boombox i recently got. while it looks cool it does have perhaps the most horrific sound of them all.
it sound like two skeletons doing the wild thing on a tin roof.
anything made by mtc jij candle has not given me any degree of nice sound.
i am sure there is exceptions but these have been the worst brands for sound to my ears.
the box i have that really is a huge let down for sound was the huge samsung mono tv boombox i recently got. while it looks cool it does have perhaps the most horrific sound of them all.
it sound like two skeletons doing the wild thing on a tin roof.
monchito said:i did but i got a whole bunch of spider websSuperduper said:
THAT'S IT, THAT'S IT! You've found the problem.
Ira/Mono..ha ha my GF500 does`nt even have Bass Or Loudness,it only has tone,but whats a tad stoopid about the cheaper sharp boxes,they have auto loudness intergrated with the volume,and thats the problem that makes them distort..my RX5600 was distorting to hell,but i changed the woofers last night,now its alot better..
2steppa
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All of mine are pretty decent in that respect, but I guess the Hitachi TRK-8190 is the one you have to be most 'careful' with in terms of volume level and bass / loudness settings.
It's fairly bass-light but if you dare to turn up the bass when you're over a third of the volume then it's 'farty' speaker time.
It's even more pronounced distortion if using line-in and a really dynamic digital source material.
And loudness, only at low volumes (but that's what it's intended for to be fair).
In spite of the above, it's a great sounding box.
It's fairly bass-light but if you dare to turn up the bass when you're over a third of the volume then it's 'farty' speaker time.
It's even more pronounced distortion if using line-in and a really dynamic digital source material.
And loudness, only at low volumes (but that's what it's intended for to be fair).
In spite of the above, it's a great sounding box.
MasterBlaster84
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Ghettoman said:
In many cases that I've seen like this, the performance was greatly improved by a general tune up so I'm not entirely convinced that they were "made" to distort like this.
bill
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well honestly i can remember a lot of boomboxes that came with terrible distortion.
i mean i can remeber being kicked out of a lot of department stores up here for turning them up loud to try and figure out which were cool and which were not
some of them really did come from the store with bad sound out of the box.
you are right tho. recapping some of them would make a difference others probably not so much .
i mean i can remeber being kicked out of a lot of department stores up here for turning them up loud to try and figure out which were cool and which were not
some of them really did come from the store with bad sound out of the box.
you are right tho. recapping some of them would make a difference others probably not so much .
Radio raheem
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with bill haha funy you should mention it bill but i used to do the same and tried countless amounts of boomboxes before the final buy and your right some used to sound terrible out the box
MasterBlaster84
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Yeah bill that's true, if the box didn't sound good new it's not going to sound good recapped or not. 
My low end ones don't distort so much as to sound like more of a shrill shriek. My killers I can run just about max but at that point I'm driving the amplifiers into clipping, which in turn cause distortion.
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