Hi all, thought I'd pop up a pic of my ageing Samsung WH-209 that I rescued from my parents' loft today, where it has resided since about 1995.
It's more "radio/cassette" than "boom box", I'll admit. But I was on a budget at the time of purchase... It was 1992, I was nine!
I'd saved my pennies because I wanted something to play my 2 Unlimited tapes(!) and couldn't stretch to the Holy Grail of a Hitachi 3D Super Woofer jobbie. It then got relegated to the loft a few years later when Santa came through with an Aiwa system that had a CD player, aux inputs (for my Commodore Amiga, naturally) and detachable speakers.
It's survived reasonably well; it always had an odd problem where a bit of distortion would be heard from the left speaker sometimes, cured by switching off and on a couple of times. Only real snag is the belts in the tape decks are shot - they're no longer very elastic and consequently slip. Quick 'n' dirty solution has been some elastic bands of vaguely the right size, although I think at least one is too tight as the sound seems a touch slow and there's some pitch variation - my guess is a slightly too-tight band is causing the motor to struggle. Not going to lose sleep over it as it's not often I need a tape deck these days!
Quite pleased the old Samsung still works though. Just a shame Atlantic 252 is long gone, I'm currently having to make do with the Radio 1 dance show!
(Annoyingly, my dad used to have one of the red Sharp ''boxes with the "stacked" twin tape decks. That went bloody loud as I recall, suppose it needed to be as he originally bought it to use in a machine shop! The annoying part is he consigned it to the skip without telling me first...)
It's more "radio/cassette" than "boom box", I'll admit. But I was on a budget at the time of purchase... It was 1992, I was nine!
I'd saved my pennies because I wanted something to play my 2 Unlimited tapes(!) and couldn't stretch to the Holy Grail of a Hitachi 3D Super Woofer jobbie. It then got relegated to the loft a few years later when Santa came through with an Aiwa system that had a CD player, aux inputs (for my Commodore Amiga, naturally) and detachable speakers.
It's survived reasonably well; it always had an odd problem where a bit of distortion would be heard from the left speaker sometimes, cured by switching off and on a couple of times. Only real snag is the belts in the tape decks are shot - they're no longer very elastic and consequently slip. Quick 'n' dirty solution has been some elastic bands of vaguely the right size, although I think at least one is too tight as the sound seems a touch slow and there's some pitch variation - my guess is a slightly too-tight band is causing the motor to struggle. Not going to lose sleep over it as it's not often I need a tape deck these days!
Quite pleased the old Samsung still works though. Just a shame Atlantic 252 is long gone, I'm currently having to make do with the Radio 1 dance show!
(Annoyingly, my dad used to have one of the red Sharp ''boxes with the "stacked" twin tape decks. That went bloody loud as I recall, suppose it needed to be as he originally bought it to use in a machine shop! The annoying part is he consigned it to the skip without telling me first...)
and welcome!
