Boomboxes with Timer Feature

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Does any one else have a Boombox with a TIMER? Not an Auto Shut Off, but a Schedule Timer.

Last year I bought this Palladium off of eBay Germany. It's in really nice condition and sounds very good. I have actually used it quite a bit.



Last week my wife and I had a Christmas dinner party and when it came time to choose a radio to take up stairs to provide easy listening music during dinner, I chose this radio for it's nice full bass at low volume.

At the end of the evening my wife turned off the radio and that was it.

Then, a full day and a half later, at 3am I awoke to music. I thought it may have been our neighbors having a party, but I thought "Man, that's really loud". I laid in bed for 30 minutes listening to the racket. I could hear Italian's talking, then music again, but it sounded close and it also sounded "echoy". Our house is all concrete and I thought, "I'm just going to get up and have a look". So I walk down stairs to the main level to find the Palladium delivering the goods as if the party never ended!

I have never used or tried to use the timer feature on this box or any box. In fact, I'm not really sure how it works. Apparently, my wife just pressed the TIMER button and walked away.

So, do any of you have other boxes with this feature?

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Very interesting story Chris! Waking up listening to music from your fav radio is pure fun!

My AKAI AJ525 and Quasar both have the time feature.
I am still looking for a Pioneer Mini I had in the late 70s that had the time feature to wake up in the morning listening to music.
~Royce

 

[MyOhMy]

My Sanyo M 9990L has a nice Clock/Timer feature:

 

[T-STER]

Thats a great story Chris, made me chuckle you lieing there wondering what the hell the neighbours were playing at!

I have that same box but it needs some love, might dig it out for a look as im intrigued now!

 

[Reli]

I have that box, and a few other timer-equipped boxes, it seemed to be a popular feature in Europe, especially Germany. You basically set a time that the box powers on. Like an alarm clock. So you can set the current time, as well as the power-on time.

 

[mancardo]

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

I have that box, and a few other timer-equipped boxes, it seemed to be a popular feature in Europe, especially Germany. You basically set a time that the box powers on. Like an alarm clock. So you can set the current time, as well as the power-on time.

Very interesting feature and something I have never played with.

Great photo's above too. I love me a good over complicated blaster

So, I could totally see setting the cassette deck up to record, setting the timer and catching your favorite radio program, baseball game, news channel. Very useful.

Thats a great story Chris, made me chuckle you lieing there wondering what the hell the neighbours were playing at!

I have that same box but it needs some love, might dig it out for a look as im intrigued now!

Not so farking useful at 3am

I swear, I was laying in bed thinking. "Damn it, our neighbors are really giving it too us after we had the whole boom room rockin' the block last night". I thought they were just pissed at us Turns out it was MY OWN RADIO!