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THE Aiwa. I said THE Aiwa. Yes, you all know this model but this one is special. Note the box, it's plain white. This was mentioned in the thread years ago regarding the Vegas meet. Someone got in touch with Aiwa (who had at the time, just released the first new product in over a decade (the really cool blutooth boombox shown) and the event organizers asked them to sponsor the meet. The CEO donated this particular box and auctioned it off, and sent to proceeds to the boombox meet organizers. This boombox was legend in it's own right but this one is uber 1 of a kind special. It's special in that it was one of (I think) THREE prototypes. It comes with a personal letter from the CEO authenticating the box as being 1 of 3 prototypes. I think it's three, and the letter is in the box, I should have read it before typing this up, but it doesn't much matter anyhow. I think the letter describes the other 2 specimens as having gone to other partners so this is the only one in circulation. Yep, I was the generous auction winner. Who amongst the Vegas meet peeps wants to add this to their collection as a momento? Those that didn't know about the vegas meet can just search the archives, there's about 20 threads on it and the entire story is posted there, interesting thread for sure. A bit of reminiscing and history here, which I'm bringing up due to how much apathy recently appears to have drifted over the forum.