Damn, what a shame!

[HELIX4700]

Just picked this up yesterday morning at a swap. All beat to hell. Felt like a douchbag for paying 15 bucks for it until someone offer $80 bucks for it. SUCKA!!! j/k

 

[monchito]

welcome to the site wow the korean conion c100 ,,so what was that you want 80.00 for it

 

[Terry]

Very sad that the original owner would let it get beat up like that.

 

[skippy1969]

Very sad that the original owner would let it get beat up like that.

I agree,but to some people it is just an old radio...... :annoyed:
Some people don't view them the same way we do around here.

 

[floyd]

that aint beat up trust me no holes no cracks ,no aluminum lol and it still has the tape drawer i say it's a winner and price was right :frankenstein: .

 

[floyd]

i wonder if you could make a cling with the text on it for the conion?

 

[reptoid]

i would be excited to get that for 15 or 80

 

[Fatdog]

Is it just me or does it look like it has been repainted silver?

If it hasn't be repainted, the case appears to be in great shape sans the name badge and aluminum trim.

Oh, yeah...

Welcome aboard, HELIX4700!!

 

[HELIX4700]

Is it just me or does it look like it has been repainted silver?

If it hasn't be repainted, the case appears to be in great shape sans the name badge and aluminum trim.

Oh, yeah...

Welcome aboard, HELIX4700!!

Thanks Fatdog & Monchito for the warm welcome. Anyway though I'd show the rest of the members my current collection; an early 90's Lasonic CDX-931, my beloved Helix HX-4700 from the late 80's & our pal the good ol C-100F. Any info on the the Lasonic & Helix would be greatly appericated.

 

[HELIX4700]

t to b: Lasonic CDX-931, Helix HX-4700, Conion C-100F

 

[Fatdog]

Wow! You might be one of only two or three members here who owns the CDX-931.

 

[manimal347]

Very sad that the original owner would let it get beat up like that.

Eh. It's a Conion/Hong Kong discount electronics wonder. Never seen one in person, but they look very cheap, like late 80's Soundesign or Yorx, only far worse. I bet they broke if you looked at them funny, and they probably sold back in the day because they were flashy, and cheap per pound, watt of output, and inch of speaker diameter. These were boxes for alienating people on street corners and killing "D" cells, not sitting pretty on desks or appreciating behind glass and playing Mozart once a week. I, for one, am glad people probably got to see and hear the thing quite extensively back in its prime. Then again, I'm a Walkman person first, and I buy vintage electronics for daily use, not rarity or cultural value.

Oh, and let me add, that's a darn cool box for $15. The generic boxen like Lasonic were perhaps the trashiest and loudest of a pretty in your face group of electronics.

 

[floyd]

Very sad that the original owner would let it get beat up like that.

Eh. It's a Conion/Hong Kong discount electronics wonder. Never seen one in person, but they look very cheap, like late 80's Soundesign or Yorx, only far worse. I bet they broke if you looked at them funny, and they probably sold back in the day because they were flashy, and cheap per pound, watt of output, and inch of speaker diameter. These were boxes for alienating people on street corners and killing "D" cells, not sitting pretty on desks or appreciating behind glass and playing Mozart once a week. I, for one, am glad people probably got to see and hear the thing quite extensively back in its prime. Then again, I'm a Walkman person first, and I buy vintage electronics for daily use, not rarity or cultural value.

Oh, and let me add, that's a darn cool box for $15. The generic boxen like Lasonic were perhaps the trashiest and loudest of a pretty in your face group of electronics.

actually the conion is a well built box ,now it could be better but that could be said for lots of things ,but it could be worse too ,the conion is not a cheap box ! when you pick it up the weight alone says good box there are boxes i like more than the conion but still the conion is bad ass.

 

[manimal347]

Very sad that the original owner would let it get beat up like that.

Eh. It's a Conion/Hong Kong discount electronics wonder. Never seen one in person, but they look very cheap, like late 80's Soundesign or Yorx, only far worse. I bet they broke if you looked at them funny, and they probably sold back in the day because they were flashy, and cheap per pound, watt of output, and inch of speaker diameter. These were boxes for alienating people on street corners and killing "D" cells, not sitting pretty on desks or appreciating behind glass and playing Mozart once a week. I, for one, am glad people probably got to see and hear the thing quite extensively back in its prime. Then again, I'm a Walkman person first, and I buy vintage electronics for daily use, not rarity or cultural value.

Oh, and let me add, that's a darn cool box for $15. The generic boxen like Lasonic were perhaps the trashiest and loudest of a pretty in your face group of electronics.

actually the conion is a well built box ,now it could be better but that could be said for lots of things ,but it could be worse too ,the conion is not a cheap box ! when you pick it up the weight alone says good box there are boxes i like more than the conion but still the conion is bad ass.

Then, I guess it just looks a bit cheap in exterior shots. I'll admit I've seen inexpensive-looking electronics that pass some muster on the inside. Fisher by Sanyo is a particularly decent example, IMHO. Cheap, but holds up okay. Oh, and I never said anything truly bad about the Conion. I think it epitomizes boomboxes as much as say Nakamichi defined tape recorders. Conion seem to have distilled the spirit behind them, cranked it to eleven, then sent it out to discount stereo shops. Kudos to them for it. Somebody had to - the world would be poorer culturally without this grotesquely overkill landmark of in one's face wattage and heft. Now, if only I could get to hear one crank... without paying $750 and developing ahernia.

 

[floyd]

it's cool if you never saw one its hard to tell what its built like ,i thought it would be a cheapish box before i got one but afterwards i knew better ,still there are boxes i prefer over it as personal preference nothing else .

 

[oldskool69]

Damn th CDX-931!!!! Whoa! And welcome!

 

[monchito]

lasonic cdx 931 i want one

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Got to agree with the masses, the CDX-931 is very cool and it's ultra rare to top it off.