Unknown Lasonic . Never Seen Before.

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This little gem came with me a few days ago.
Its very dirty and not working but i think it will clean up nicely. :-)
Its a Monophonic Lasonic with no model number on the back.
Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know what model it might be?
I know for sure i havent seen this before.
It reminds me of a certain Sanyo
mono, only i cant remember the model right now.

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Wow, very cool! I know there's another Lasonic mono with a red tweeter. But I've never seen this one before.
 

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Here we are with the Unknown Lasonic ! :-)
Pictures will be uploaded at the end of this post.

Bought new belts for it this past week and changed the old ones.
I put it inside the tube for a warm soapy bath.
I sprayed a lot of contact cleaner on its electronics
and here it is proudly posing fully working again as it should.
This little mono is now given a second chance !! :-D
Still its model number is unknown...
The years i ve been collecting it never occured to me not to know
a models number and i think this is a unique Lasonic.

It gets really Loud and it has separate bass and treble plus a proper Line-In .
It has nothing to be jealous about from a lot of oldschool boomboxes. :-D


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This is also my new addition from Lucky , a very dirty boombox too . (sorry for the bad picture)

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The Lucky TRC-909 brother of Lasonic TRC-909


Also a brother of those 2 909's :

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Reno this is a fact ! :-) Thanks :-D All i know its uncurable.

I just love it when i find boomboxes that has never been unsurfaced before.
Maybe the same feeling have arcaeologists that find ancient marbles or art.

This Lasonic is literally saved from the trash bin.
It is a unique piece.
If i havent got it maybe its faith would be a lot different in a bad way.

I am glad i saved it.
 

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I'm sure the USA market for lasonics didn't even sell half the models that lasonic made.

They prolly only sold certain models In the USA.
 

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Plus they used different brands in different countries, like "Larsen"
 

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Reli said:
Plus they used different brands in different countries, like "Larsen"
Yes Reli this is true, they used a lot of different names.
''Lucky'' is the most common. Others like ''ALEX'' or ''Olympic'' are not so common but this is very interesting
because every Lasonic seems like a cheaper copy of Sanyo. Lasonic mostly copied Sanyo designs.
In my opinion Lasonic took a Sanyo original design and they pimped it or exagerrated it .
Look at a Lasonic TRC-920 and a Sanyo M-7900 for example. The 920 is a pimped gigantic 7900
and this is not the only example.

Look at a Lasonic TRC-915 :
http://www.wikiboombox.com/tiki-index.php?page=Lasonic+TRC-915

Then take a look at a Sanyo M-9994 :

http://www.wikiboombox.com/tiki-index.php?page=Sanyo+M-9994

They are more or less the same design.

Btw Reli in the Wikiboombox page about the Lasonic TRC-915 i think the last sentence mistakenly
states that there was a Lasonic TRC-909N sold in Europe. The three 909s are all pictured above.

By seeing the pictures i also discovered that the Unknown Mono Lasonic i found
uses the same tape door as the TRC-915.


jimmyjimmy19702010 said:
Cool looking mono. Are those twin tweeters?

After picking up a Sony CF-490, I now have a new appreciation of how good monos can sound - I’m no longer a ‘stereo only ‘ collector! :-)
Jimmyjimmy i couldnt agree more with that.
There are so many Monos that are coolest looking and better sounding
than a lot of stereo boomboxes.
And yes the Unknown Lasonic has twin tweeters.

Sorry for my long replies.
 

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jimmyjimmy19702010 said:
I agree the Lasonic TRC-917 looks like the Sanyo M9994 but there is another box that looks even closer to the Lasonic:
The Sanyo M4500K: :-)
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Yes the Lasonic TRC-915 is close to the Sanyo M4500K but some details
like the 4 screws for the plexi and maybe the woofer-tweeter configuration
resembles more the design of a Sanyo M9994. Its a matter of perspective.
All three are Great looking boomboxes with VU's anyway. :-)

The Chinese clone Red Lantern looks pretty nice too.