Just bought my first boombox since I was a kid and we all just sort of "had them" (if by them you mean whatever cheap model mom bought at K-Mart for the family to abuse).
It was $20 at an estate sale and knowing enough to know that there is a pretty big cutoff for when things stopped being made well in boomboxes, but not knowing enough to know how strict that date is, I'm curious as to whether I should think of this one as "better than the ones they make nowadays" and why.
It's a JVC PC-XC12. It is huge. Dual cassette and 3 CD. Very nicely it is three separate CD trays not one wheel. But one thing I'm wondering is that, being a rather late model (1998 I think), is there any reason to think that the cassette mechanism and playback is any better on this than on any of the terrible cassette decks that are manufactured today? I think I had it in my mind that already by the 90s one is out of luck in terms of cassette decks or cassette players built into boomboxes.
I did see somewhere that it is a beltless cassette mechanism. Is that a sign that it's not just the same low-end deck shoved into a big pretty box?
Does anyone have any experiences with this model? There isn't much online about it because I assume it's too new to be of interest to many collectors and too old to have any reviews online.
It was $20 at an estate sale and knowing enough to know that there is a pretty big cutoff for when things stopped being made well in boomboxes, but not knowing enough to know how strict that date is, I'm curious as to whether I should think of this one as "better than the ones they make nowadays" and why.
It's a JVC PC-XC12. It is huge. Dual cassette and 3 CD. Very nicely it is three separate CD trays not one wheel. But one thing I'm wondering is that, being a rather late model (1998 I think), is there any reason to think that the cassette mechanism and playback is any better on this than on any of the terrible cassette decks that are manufactured today? I think I had it in my mind that already by the 90s one is out of luck in terms of cassette decks or cassette players built into boomboxes.
I did see somewhere that it is a beltless cassette mechanism. Is that a sign that it's not just the same low-end deck shoved into a big pretty box?
Does anyone have any experiences with this model? There isn't much online about it because I assume it's too new to be of interest to many collectors and too old to have any reviews online.
