4 new boomers get GF 9191,9494,GPM 818 and JVC RC 656

Today get 4 new boomers
Once Sharp GF 9191 once Sharp GF 9494
Once GPM 818 German product and
Once JVC RC 656 optically quite ok I find

This is good update!

The GPM looks really cool, my favorite out of all of em. Nice finds

Nice you even have the rarer 656 with the round grilles .

BACK IN THE GAME!

This boomer I got quite cheap, and would
Me also necessary again from 2 pieces separate, was planned
My gf 9696 with the help of the gf 9494 again to make,
But I think it would be a mess to do this,
The JVC I got from an old gentleman here in the house,
The gf 9191 I bought cheap there but must also some
To be done, the gpm is visually very beautiful
But as always, the tapedeck is broken., But
My first hobby is still the model railway,
As I said, when I will find time as well
Again blaster organized, which I restore and
Then offer again, which remains to myself says stand here,
In the sense, friends simply report to you when I am
Want something

My new jewelery on the model railway

The GPM looks nice. Need a close up of that tuner needle.

Come here immediately please
With german inscription

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4CkTxVUEAk is restored

Hello, CorafanRIP. These boomboxes that you have look interesting. Of course, I feel that the GF-series Sharp boomboxes are the ones that I would go for if I had enough money for any of those portable stereos. I will say that the JVC looks somewhat like the JVC RC-M50JW that I have. Like the cassette deck of the GPM 818, the cassette deck of my RC-M50 is not working very well; it is too slow. It has been slow almost every day since I bought it on eBay in September 2015.

Anyway, CorafanRIP, I must say that the GPM 818 looks interesting. It has German writing on it: Sender* for the tuner knob, Ein for "On", Aus for "Off," etc. But it says "Power" near the ON-OFF switch instead of something in German. Germans use many different words when they talk about power in different things, just as English speakers have different words for talking about power. But Germans also say "Power" when they are talking about switches in electronics. (I just checked with Google Translate LOL)

What people will notice about the GPM 818 is that it looks like so many boomboxes that were designed and built somewhere in Asia: boomboxes made by Aiwa, by JVC, by Sanyo, etc. That is because the GPM 818 was most likely made somewhere in Asia: maybe Japan, maybe Taiwan, maybe Singapore. Maybe even Malaysia. I strongly suspect that is a fact. (That is one reason why I wish people would show good photos of the back of the boomboxes.) I doubt that German electronics companies -- or electronics companies in other European countries -- ever built boomboxes that looked like that. Maybe their engineers designed this stereo, but I think that Asian assembly-line workers built it. Many of us have seen portable sound systems that were designed and built in Germany (West Germany in those days) or in other European countries in the 1970s and in the 1980s -- that is, before the German or other European electronics companies sold their manufacturing operations to Asian companies that were selling twice, three times or ten times as many boomboxes as their European counterparts were selling. Did those sound systems designed and built in Germany, in the Netherlands or in another European country look like this GPM 818 or like a Sharp GF-9494? I doubt it.

Anyway, Corafan, continue to enjoy what you collect, whether it is model railways or boomboxes. It looks like they have a good home with you .

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(*At least, I think that the tuner knob is labelled "Sender"; I assume it is, seeing that one can't fully see it in these photos that CorafanRIP shares with us. I've seen a few German-market boomboxes on various websites, with their controls, tuner knob included, inscribed in German. I remember that the good-looking, potent-looking, Taiwan-made Maximal 3040 found by our man Nick Eccles is thus labelled.)

thanks for the kind words,
But unfortunately I have to tell you, I have the Sharp GF 9696 now complete
Restored, so I can sell this, yes belongs correctly I know that it is rare
And everyone wants one, but I need a little money for the construction of the
model railway system somehow I will get again, and to the gpm 818
I like to make pictures from the back what is there,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWej_VkonE

Thank you for sharing, mate.
Never seen this GPM brand, always interesting to see a new ones,
wondering where was it made - Taiwan?
May you have the pic of the back plate?

More stands there unfortunately not

CorafanRIP said:

More stands there unfortunately not

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Thank you, bud,
Neither manufacturer nor country of origin are there but anyway interesting!

Nice the 656 is my fave here, i have the one with waffle grilles and i love it

Very nice score on all of you radios! That JVC with the round grills,oh wow. I've only ever seen one of those before. A guy up in Canada had it on eBay. When I finally got the dough to get it, it was long gone...............Glad you've got one though.👍

JVC 656's are underrated imo - I love em, nice warm sound great quality build & extremely reliable!!

Btw did anyone else notice this 656 has only one antenna??

ralrein1 said:

Very nice score on all of you radios! That JVC with the round grills,oh wow. I've only ever seen one of those before. A guy up in Canada had it on eBay. When I finally got the dough to get it, it was long gone...............Glad you've got one though.👍

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that sucks .these are a damn good radio. I love the ones with the waffle grills.

Yeah nick and Floyd,I agree with you both. I do have a waffle grill 656 and I dig it. Would be cool to have both kinds though!☺