Anybody here like the big sony fh series...we are not talking the smaller mickey mouse ones like the fh7 lol

[Radio raheem]

I have a couple of fh 909 and they will kill any 80's boombox including the m90 conion and telefunken studio but we all know that already guys haha....my only gripe with the 909 is that i don't like the draw loading cassette deck it looks flashy but is a pain in the A$$ lol

Anyway a few days ago i bought a very cheap FH215, it came in outstanding packing, the box alone was 4ft lol

i had her cheap because she had no brackets or handle...i think this one was actually sold new like this although they made the same one with these accessories ....any way she is now complete with handle and now can be carried about indoors as intended....pic if i can get my camera working lads..........anyway on with the thread how many of you fine gentlemen are lucky enough have one of these........will even smoke a kaboom lads lol

 

[Radio raheem]

 

[lupogtiboy]

I have an FH-313 x2, FH-209W, and the good old FH-7 mk2. I also have x2 CFS-9000, MHC-701, MHC-1600, MHC-2500, MHC-550, MHC-EC69i, and a couple of others I forget the model numbers!

 

[Radio raheem]

you should post them on here my friend, along with every one else....the fh series does not get enough respect it's always m90 this and conion that....i know what i would love to do some day is to connect my 3 grand monitor audio speakers and my huge missions buddy

 

[lupogtiboy]

My main issue is that nearly everything I own is in a 40ft storage container! Its tidy(ish), but some stuff is buried. I will get round to sorting it oneday, though no idea when! For the mean time, here is a pic of the FH-209W and MHC-2500 I do have in easy reach, in a shed at work! Also I have a pic of the MHC-1600 running on some epic-sounding Goodmans mini speakers. Honestly I was blown away at how good they sound for such a small speaker!

Best thing is that most of these are reasonable prices still if you hunt around. FH-7 was a boot sale find for £10, MHC-1600 another boot sale find, £15 in its original box, only missing the remote. FH-313, one was £34 on eBay, the other also on eBay for £45 (forgot I already had 1), FH-209W was a freebie, just cost me postage (£12 IIRC). Even the CFS-9000's were cheap at £50 on eBay.

 

[Radio raheem]

I used to be like that sunshine but honestly i don't see the point unless you are going to use this gear, i subsequently gave over half of my stuff away.....80 boomboxes and tonnes of gear in a bedsit is no fun lol....i still have far to much but i'm enjoying the money i'm saving.....anyway thanks for posting buddy i remember you getting that big fh for free from a guy on here and that is how it should be....not it's old it's broken i must charge a mortgage for it lol

 

[lupogtiboy]

I'm just a hoarder for stuff like this! I see something like this and I have to have it, I don't know why, it's probably some OCD or something liked that.....

 

[Radio raheem]

I was the same no matter how much it was lol...........my fh 215 was £215 plus tax and post so she cost about £250 all in my friend...a bargain compared to what others are asking for m70's and the like alone

 

[Brutus442]

This was sadly the last hurrah for the classic, square cut, quality big boom boxes. After this, boomboxes devolved into the egg shape boxes that signaled the end of the genre.

Beautiful purchase Reno. I secretly pine for one of these but my wife is at the end of her rope with my collection as is

 

[Radio raheem]

This was sadly the last hurrah for the classic, square cut, quality big boom boxes. After this, boomboxes devolved into the egg shape boxes that signaled the end of the genre.

Beautiful purchase Reno. I secretly pine for one of these but my wife is at the end of her rope with my collection as is

Don't be daft my friend you don't need one of these flippin mickey mouse things lol

seriously if you want one all i can think of is to sell a pc55 or your 550 you don't need 2 of them brother, that way she may let you, i promise you you won't regret it if you get this model

to give you an idea she is prolly as loud as a pc55 on half volume and as much as i love the 55 sounds way better, it sounds the same as an fh 909 as far as i can tell and i think she is prolly as loud despite what spec's say...also i would choose this one over the 909 because of the deck......you need to get one brotha i don't care if it means divorce lol jk

 

[Eavb]

I have two FH-7 mk1s (purely because I prefer the look of them to the mk2s). I know the later ones have better drivers but even the mk1s kick the hell out of anything else I own.

When I was 16 or so I actually used to carry a mk1 (with the battery pack) to hang out with friends and blast hip hop. After 10 minutes or so of walking I used to be swapping arms pretty regularly!

It took me a whole year of working every school holiday landscape gardening to buy it in the first place.

 

[Radio raheem]

Welcome aboard.....never had any of the portable Fh if i;m honest but word has it they take 12 D's

the nearest i have had was a couple of sony cfs 9000....and they were great....also i know they were not cheap buddy.....sony were so diverse making dozens of walkmans and boxes amongst many things....feel free to post pics would be great nice one

 

[Eavb]

Yes it was 12 D cells, and even Duracells didn't last all that long! I had a friend at the time who used to bring along 12 rechargeable ni-cad batteries for me when my set died but they were pretty feeble.

I lost the original FH-7 in a house fire in 2006. One of the few boxes I still have from back then is my TRK-9230 that I bought about 6 months before the FH-7. It cost me £149.99 and I couldn't bring myself to sell it when I bought the Sony.

It became my back up box for times when I had no money as it only used 8 D cells. It's still in service as my wife’s radio in her art studio, never been re belted either!

 

[Radio raheem]

Ha i;m not a fan of hitachii but i have always been a fan of thia super looking box buddy, thanks for the pics sunshine.....i wil post a box soon on here it came yesterday and has become an instant fave,

it won't win any loudness wars but honestly the bass knocks my big sony fh215 for six

its a jvc hyperbass but floyd if you read this we have had all the hyperbass boxes apart from this one and i can tell you it's the same size as all the others but it's twice the weight brother and the sound knocks the jvc pcx 1000 for six gentlemen....i'm a huge fan of the underdogs especially when they kick A$$ lol

 

[Radio raheem]

the jvc pc v2 in showroom condition...totally love it lads

 

[neanderthal]

Big, big fan of the late eighties/ early nineties boxes. I'd put the best of them up against almost anything from the earlier stuff. An uncle had a no name lil (it wasn't little) Satan of a boombox that, at full crack, was loud from the other side of the house. And my uncle was a doctor, he had a big ass house.

Went to one of the best boarding schools in Zimbabwe and there was a smorgasbord of quality boomboxes throughout the school. Hearing a mere boombox fill the school hall with sound is still a memory that sends chills down my spine. My love of the Hitachi 3D8Xs started hearing "Impi" by Juluka completely permeate the school's Beit Hall one afternoon. So I bought one a few years ago when I found this forum. The one I have is less impressive than I remember but it has the best sound of my meager collection. It just runs out of punch at higher volumes.

My buddy had a Sharp WQT359 that made me fall in love with bass. That directly led to my seeking and buying a JDM Sharp QT73 CD. Because I already had bought a WFT380 which my twin brother and I shared in high school. The 359 didn't have anything the 380 didn't already have. I have a distinct memory of shocking our youth group leader with the volume of the 380; he wanted to abandon carrying a giant PA system around and just take my boombox. I was sad to leave that boombox when I moved to the US.

Fun fun times.
We made the best with the terrible quality tapes and poor recordings we had. When we occasionally got good quality tapes it was nice to hear the boomboxes play the way they were intended.

 

[Radio raheem]

This was sadly the last hurrah for the classic, square cut, quality big boom boxes. After this, boomboxes devolved into the egg shape boxes that signaled the end of the genre.

Beautiful purchase Reno. I secretly pine for one of these but my wife is at the end of her rope with my collection as is

Geoff all i can say is you need one of these damn things in you're life.....fook you're other boxes including the m90 lol.....reason i say this is because she already sounds better than any other box....but here is the cracker sunshine....i don't know if you remember me posting about my mission 705 speakers....well the 705 are now connected to the sony....and yea sure i have heard better but i doubt most people's hifi sound as good as this brother.....i shite you not get one my friend balls to any other boombox lol maybe this is all irrelevant my friend as they say it's not a boombox lad but balls to them and you wouldn't want to carry it anyway as she is twice the weight of a pc55

 

[Radio raheem]

Big, big fan of the late eighties/ early nineties boxes. I'd put the best of them up against almost anything from the earlier stuff. An uncle had a no name lil (it wasn't little) Satan of a boombox that, at full crack, was loud from the other side of the house. And my uncle was a doctor, he had a big ass house.

Went to one of the best boarding schools in Zimbabwe and there was a smorgasbord of quality boomboxes throughout the school. Hearing a mere boombox fill the school hall with sound is still a memory that sends chills down my spine. My love of the Hitachi 3D8Xs started hearing "Impi" by Juluka completely permeate the school's Beit Hall one afternoon. So I bought one a few years ago when I found this forum. The one I have is less impressive than I remember but it has the best sound of my meager collection. It just runs out of punch at higher volumes.

My buddy had a Sharp WQT359 that made me fall in love with bass. That directly led to my seeking and buying a JDM Sharp QT73 CD. Because I already had bought a WFT380 which my twin brother and I shared in high school. The 359 didn't have anything the 380 didn't already have. I have a distinct memory of shocking our youth group leader with the volume of the 380; he wanted to abandon carrying a giant PA system around and just take my boombox. I was sad to leave that boombox when I moved to the US.

Fun fun times.
We made the best with the terrible quality tapes and poor recordings we had. When we occasionally got good quality tapes it was nice to hear the boomboxes play the way they were intended.

Always said 90's boxes sound way better my friend but don't look as good......the harsh riality for me is, as much as i love 80's boxes. 99% of them the sound is a total shambles....take that hyper box i posted further up, not that loud but imho the sound quality kinda will disgrace something like an m90 lol