Has anybody found the perfect boombox yet??? for there needs

[blu_fuz]

i would have to say the sanyo mx650k. mid size and is a beauty.

The M-X650K is decent. I wish it had deeper bass. Maybe a speaker upgrade would take care of that. Should have come with a strap.

 

[petergriffin]

Hey Rimmer, how can you say the PC-55 is not loud enough? it's louder then an M90?
For my "needs" I would say the M70 is perfect. Not too heavy, amazing sound. with an original strap, and love the fact the line-in on the side. So I can walk and play my ipod connected to it at the same time

 

[mellymelsr]

When my arms are too sore to lug the M90 around my second choice is on of my M70's. I think it is the best all around outdoor box. It is small enough for anyone to carry, is great on batteries, loud, good sound, has a great cassette deck and tuner...and I have an assortment of them in colors perfect for outdoor use...

I wish i could share your passion melly Ill be brutally honest and I dont mean to offend anybody ok..... but i prolly will as usual....


But since i have built this stack system up it sounds better than any valve stuff i have heard all be it on headpones..... it just makes the m90 sound like a cheap mono radio now :'-( and god knows mell you know i love my m90's I know you cant compare any portable radio to a true hifi but i havnt used the hifi for about a week... i went to use the m90 yesterday and my god it sounded so dissapointing it was unreal... I honestly felt like crying..... i mean i have used a stack before and it hasnt affected the pleasure i used to get out of an m90 BUT this new system is un discribable...... put it this way my GRADO RS! headphones cant handle it and there suppozed to be top end headphones......but im lucky my cheap but amazing trchnics headphones from the 80's are a PERFECT match for it and i have since bought another boxed pair..... I doubt i will ever hear a better pair of headphones in my life time. the whole sound is just so amazing....

...when I want true audiophile quality sound I have a THX Certified sound system in my Theater room using Bowers and Wilkens mids and tweeters and Velodyne subwoofers for a true 7.1 surround sound experience. I would never compare a $90,000 audiophile system to a $1,000 boombox with dated technology, and since I know you like the best, B&W speakers are the BEST in the world...period...but I get a different listening experience with my boxes, I get the best listening experience from my home system. By the way if you get a set of Sennheiser HD 800's there is no system they can't handle...best cans on the planet....imho...

 

[Radio raheem]

When my arms are too sore to lug the M90 around my second choice is on of my M70's. I think it is the best all around outdoor box. It is small enough for anyone to carry, is great on batteries, loud, good sound, has a great cassette deck and tuner...and I have an assortment of them in colors perfect for outdoor use...

I wish i could share your passion melly Ill be brutally honest and I dont mean to offend anybody ok..... but i prolly will as usual....


But since i have built this stack system up it sounds better than any valve stuff i have heard all be it on headpones..... it just makes the m90 sound like a cheap mono radio now :'-( and god knows mell you know i love my m90's I know you cant compare any portable radio to a true hifi but i havnt used the hifi for about a week... i went to use the m90 yesterday and my god it sounded so dissapointing it was unreal... I honestly felt like crying..... i mean i have used a stack before and it hasnt affected the pleasure i used to get out of an m90 BUT this new system is un discribable...... put it this way my GRADO RS! headphones cant handle it and there suppozed to be top end headphones......but im lucky my cheap but amazing trchnics headphones from the 80's are a PERFECT match for it and i have since bought another boxed pair..... I doubt i will ever hear a better pair of headphones in my life time. the whole sound is just so amazing....

...when I want true audiophile quality sound I have a THX Certified sound system in my Theater room using Bowers and Wilkens mids and tweeters and Velodyne subwoofers for a true 7.1 surround sound experience. I would never compare a $90,000 audiophile system to a $1,000 boombox with dated technology, and since I know you like the best, B&W speakers are the BEST in the world...period...but I get a different listening experience with my boxes, I get the best listening experience from my home system. By the way if you get a set of Sennheiser HD 800's there is no system they can't handle...best cans on the planet....imho...

Mell its hard to explain but ill try..... I have listned to many a good hifi granted not 10000 pounds worth and it has never affected my listning to the m90....

I mean i had an m90 WAY WAY before 90% of the members on here ever joined stg or boomboxery befor most of them new what an m90 even was...

And I have always loved its sound god knows i bang on about them enough lol but since listning to my new hifi something must have snapped in my brain or something i cant explain it but now when i listen to 90% of my radios they just sound rubbish ITS REALY upsetting because i used to get so much pleasure out of them... I love ghettoblasters prolly more than anybody on this forum and have had hundreds over the years.... yes granted i wouldnt listen to a cheap mono radio but i doubt you would eather..... man i wish i had never built up this stack system its just taken all my pleasure out of lisning to ghettoblasters... and I could cry REALY.... :'-(

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Tim I think you might be wound up a little to tight on the "Sound Quality" issue , we just need to enjoy boomboxes for being boomboxes. If we get caught up to much in just the sound quality no one can ever be fully satisfied once they hear quality Hi-Fi gear.

I have really good home gear and it makes all of my boomboxes sound like crap in comparison. When I turn on a boombox my expectation of sound quality is reset to a much lower standard, having that understanding allows me to enjoy boomboxes without being critical of them to the point of ruining the pleasure. If I couldn't adjust my expectations I would be exactly where you are so I understand your position.

 

[Radio raheem]

thanks don... its like my brain wont reset its self... it always has in the past but not this time... it sounds STUPID i know like i have tried to say i have listened to plenty a good quality hifi in the past and it hasnt bothered me... ive come home stuck the m90 on and been grinning from ear to ear.. its like all the caps have blown all at once in all my radios.... if it carries on i may concider hipnotheripy becaus i love my radios more than any stack system, i mean a stack isnt portable for one thing... radios are my life and quite oftern with the shiat i have gone through (more than most) they have been the only thing that has kept me alive in the past, more than once....

 

[Radio raheem]

Hey Rimmer, how can you say the PC-55 is not loud enough? it's louder then an M90?
For my "needs" I would say the M70 is perfect. Not too heavy, amazing sound. with an original strap, and love the fact the line-in on the side. So I can walk and play my ipod connected to it at the same time

Sorry to dissagree my friend.... i have 7 pc55 and my m90's blow them all away... but like i have stated the m90 isn't even good enough for me now... wich is very upsetting.....

 

[mellymelsr]

Me thinks Rim has had one drink too many... ...I accept boomboxes for what they are...very good sound in a small package. Their style, portability and sound are what attract me to them. I often just enjoy looking at them. You won't catch me staring at my home audiophile system admiring it's looks...so the appeal is very different. You sometimes get caught up only in the sound aspect of this hobby and you are missing out on everything else it offers my friend. I love my boxes because they take me back to my childhood days...no home stereo on the planet can do that...

 

[Radio raheem]

melly i dont drink anymore havnt done in months... if i do i dont come on here.. i have lost to many friends ie redbenjoe over stupid drinking habits...

Back to radios i love them for the same reason you do all the above stated by you.... the m90 used to sound wonderful even after lisning to sombodys hifi...

about 2 months ago sombody said to me "man you love and live for your m90s dont you." he was correct.... how many times have i got into arguments with people stating the m90 is better than this and that like people like oldschool.. god bless him... ill go one firther and ill say and i quiyte honestly mean it..... half the people on this forum and stg prolly wouldnt have bought m90s if it haddnt been for me ranting and raving about them... i have done it for years....

I put the m90 on about an hour ago and had to nearly force myself to listn to it ....at the end of the tape i was more upset than ever.... the m90 used to sound wonderful dispite what hifi i listned to... now it does not and that goes for both of them.... if the m90 sounds bad to me god only knows what the rest of my radios sound like...

Don you were right i can pinpoint this down to when i first heard the m90 on cans... you were right look what can of worms it has opened now

 

[BMoney]

Rimmer, I've been saying this for years. Boomboxes aren't just about sound. They sound like crap compared to a lot of other equipment. In my home, I have a mediocre Sony receiver pushing 2 Gemini 15-inch DJ speakers that you could hear a block away. It would make ANY boombox look like a joke. In my car, I had 2 Kicker 12-inch subs that shook the mirrors in the car in front of me at a stoplight. It would decimate ANY boombox. But none of that looks like a boombox. None of that has the nostalgia of a boombox. If you can't see that, then you don't deserve to collect boomboxes. If you're so disappointed with them? If you're so miserable collecting them? Sell them. Buy a McIntosh. Plug in your cans. And call it a day.

And I'm sorry to burst your bubble, homie. But, the M90 isn't a trend you started. It's been a legend in its own right. If anything, LL Cool J and P.Diddy have more to do with its hype than you.

 

[Radio raheem]

you know i love ya homie but i aint even gunna reply to anything you just said its upsetting enough as it is... and you have obviously not understood anything i have said.. thats the problem with this internet shiat typing is not the same as talking....

 

[monchito]

thanks don... its like my brain wont reset its self... it always has in the past but not this time... well i can tell how to do that rim put your m90 on top of a high table tie a rope around the m90 hold the rope in you hand now lay down just in front of the table make sure your facing the floor now pull on the rope and wala you should be hearing the m90 speakers though your ears and you just reset your brain at the same time

 

[Radio raheem]

thanks don... its like my brain wont reset its self... it always has in the past but not this time... well i can tell how to do that rim put your m90 on top of a high table tie a rope around the m90 hold the rope in you hand now lay down just in front of the table make sure your facing the floor now pull on the rope and wala you should be hearing the m90 speakers though your ears and you just reset your brain at the same time

that is the funniest thing i have heard all night thankyou monchito peace

 

[mellymelsr]

After really thinking about the initial question asked in this forum I have concluded that, for me, there is no one perfect boombox. There are days I feel like listening to the M90 and there are days where I am feeling my M9994k. All my boxes have different characteristics that make them equally unique. So I guess my answer would be on a given day, depending on my mood, the answer would constantly change....so the more boomboxes you have the merrier...

 

[sony_apm_fan]

I accept boomboxes for what they are...very good sound in a small package. Their style, portability and sound are what attract me to them. I often just enjoy looking at them. You won't catch me staring at my home audiophile system admiring it's looks...so the appeal is very different. You sometimes get caught up only in the sound aspect of this hobby and you are missing out on everything else it offers my friend. I love my boxes because they take me back to my childhood days...no home stereo on the planet can do that...

Couldn't agree more

 

[jaetee]

Any good photographer will tell you that the best camera in the world is the one you have with you!!!!

IMHO, the same goes for boomboxes.

 

[manimal347]

Laugh, but my favorite box is my CEC OL-7540. It's only ten-twelve pounds, feels as solid as a brand-name model, the woofers are very rigid, it runs for an eternity on 8 D cells, features a power output meter so I don't clip the amp on heavy bass notes, and has very iconicly brash styling. The sound sure doesn't hurt, either. It's loud and harsh, with obscene amounts of distortion. It'll never get mistaken for hi-fi, but is perfect for congregating around and kicking out a jam or two. Oh yeah, and I swear this box pack at least 5 watts of howl per channel.

I think the story behind the aquisition helps, too. $50, complete with eight D cells - friend of a friend, bought right on the sidewalk.

 

[mellymelsr]

Yes I have-for all around ourdooe use there are 2-The Sharp GF-8989II and the Sharp GF-9797!!! Excellent all around outdoor boomers.
When you need a little more power you get out the Sanyo M9994 or the 9994K-These are vey nice for all around activities!
Just my opinion & I have experience with all models except the "K" version of ther 9994 but the regular is louder!
GB.

Sanyo M9994 or the 9994K need more more information on what is the difference between these 2?

The M9994k has shortwave radio channels and a loudness button to enhance the bass. The M9994 has AM and FM only and a midrange button which enhances the midrange and tweeters. It also seems to be louder overall but I prefer the sound of the K version...bass hits harder.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

"Has anybody found the perfect boombox yet??? for there needs"

NOPE!

 

[Terry]

"Has anybody found the perfect boombox yet??? for there needs"

NOPE!

This is why we collect them, hopeing that one day we will find the perfect boombox. Of course the perfect boombox doesn't exist, but shhhhh don't tell anyone.