redbenjoe said:Superduper said:
classic !!!!
MasterBlaster84 said:Superduper said:
You can never stop driving the Bus SD, NEVER!
I CAN quit.
I just don't want to.
How does this happen?! I don't understand......
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I CAN quit.
I just don't want to.
redbenjoe
I Am Legend
hey BSL --
that was such a helpful set of stories and thoughts and advice --
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there are so many variables involved in our box needs and stimulations-
for years --i have collected the BIGGIES
and was happy to go with the 'bigger is better' notion
last year --my back went wackie - :'-(
since then --i have not even touched my 7700 or my WX1
and now that i own a tc999 --my c100f is in far away storage
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soundwise --98 % of the mid-size boxes -- are,-to me -
just whimpy big box wannabbes
still --they have been my main focus this year
and then --i have been thrilled to re-discover --
how much fun it is to get surprised by a terrific sounding MINI !!!
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so --the great variety of boxes --
is a constant addiction attraction
that was such a helpful set of stories and thoughts and advice --
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there are so many variables involved in our box needs and stimulations-
for years --i have collected the BIGGIES
and was happy to go with the 'bigger is better' notion
last year --my back went wackie - :'-(
since then --i have not even touched my 7700 or my WX1
and now that i own a tc999 --my c100f is in far away storage
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soundwise --98 % of the mid-size boxes -- are,-to me -
just whimpy big box wannabbes
still --they have been my main focus this year
and then --i have been thrilled to re-discover --
how much fun it is to get surprised by a terrific sounding MINI !!!
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so --the great variety of boxes --
is a constant addiction attraction
ViennaSound
Boomus Fidelis
Ken
Member (SA)
Superduper said:
Denial is a river in Egypt...
I have been hoisted by my own petard. My habit of buying anything with line-in that is under $10.00 has quickly pushed my collection to 25 in 10 months. I figured on 1 or 2 grails per year but now I need space for that to happen. I just don't know of anybody who wants ubiquitous black boxes (Sanyo C-30, C-35, etc.) and some of my first loves I would be hard pressed to part with (Sharp GF-9090, Panny 5150, etc.)
To be blunt, I don't want to sell anything.
But, alas, I have come to the realization that a little BBox Darwinism is the only way for my collection to grow in quality as well as quantity. So, it's survival of the fittest at my house tonight, and when the dust clears, a list will be posted in it's wake. That's what we need to do, friends. Cull the heard. I WILL have the GF-9696 I crave.
Gluecifer
Member (SA)
I love these topics! I always find them interesting and I really enjoy seeing how or if my feelings about the collecting bug have changed over time.
I'm a very passionate person by nature, when I get into something I like it's all or nothing, I can't do anything half arsed. It's then up to how long that will keep me entertained until i need to find something else. The longest running of these passions has been video games. I've been importing japanese and u.s games and systems since 1991. I have no problem paying over a thousand dollars for a games machine to get one the week it's been launched in japan. Like wise I've no problem paying 'silly-money' for individual games or merchandise from my favourite series or systems.
But I go in and out of the gaming passion, every few years I lose interest with how the market shifts around and can't find anything new I want to play. So I do other things until I drop back into it. It'll just take a new game or hardware announcement I'll be back into it with all the passion and fervour again.
Games have been the only consistent passion I've kept up for the last 20 years though. I was obsessed with Lego for 4 or 5 years, Garbage Pail Kids for a few, 80s yoyos for a time too and numerous other things along the way. But they've all be very finite interests. I'd go in wholeheartedly and research and buy but because theres only 'so many' you can collect before you've either got the lot, or the ones you're after, I soon find myself losing interest and moving onto the next thing. Don't get me wrong, I still ADORE all my old collections. I love going through my thousands of Garbage Pail Kids and changing my Lego displays, but then I'll move on to newer things.
With most of my passions they go back to being things I loved as a kid, or never got the opportunity to as a kid. Whenever I get into something I'm always thinking in the back of my mind 'how longs this going to last before you've had enough?', and usually I can set myself goals so that when I've gotten all I want, I'll move on.
But with boomboxes, I've never ever been able to answer that question. Well, actually there was once. When I first started collecting and I found my first radio, and it was a GF-777 and it was a massively huge deal to me. My friend with me at the time asked if I was going to get more and I said 'No! This is the one I wanted, that's enough' he replied with 'Bullshit'. Needless to say, every time he comes over he always, without fail, brings that up.
This aside, I never had any limitations or 'checks' in place when I started seriously collecting to set what my goals were. I did form a list of all the models I needed. But it was never a 'these and these only' deal. Just the ones I needed to really work at getting. When I started up I'd take anything with a cassette deck, you guys know what it's like, can't let any pass you by, especially locally. Over the first year I worked out what I liked and didn't like and got realistic about where my passion and collection was going. So I made a few critical decisions about what I collected that made my passion more focussed and also meant every radio I got was going to be just as special as that first 777.
Three years later, I'm still going very strong. I've run out of room for them a few times and ripped windows out of my house to make for more wall space for display and I'm always looking for new places for shelving. I've got a fair bit of room left and I could quite happily double my collection without having to do massive renovations again. Keeping space a priority is essential, I've found.
The best part is I go through my neeeds list I made 3 years ago and I've managed to get about 75% of them. But the list underneath which I add to has balanced it out and for every one I get another seems to be added without trying. I don't see my interest dropping from this hobby for quite a while.
The big, BIG thing that keeps any of my passions going is other people and sharing the experience. With all the others that have dropped theres usually been friends that were into them too that lost interest and doing these things on your own is never as much fun. This is where all you guys come into the picture.
I always say, without the community of collectors on here and s2go I'd still be looking for radio number one. Being able to share your passions and experience others' is what makes this hobby always interesting and entertaining.
For me collecting boomboxes is the perfect storm. One I've been looking for many years that will endure and give me untold amounts of pleasure.
And it's all YOUR fault, guys!!
Thanks greatly for that, brothers.
Rock On.
I'm a very passionate person by nature, when I get into something I like it's all or nothing, I can't do anything half arsed. It's then up to how long that will keep me entertained until i need to find something else. The longest running of these passions has been video games. I've been importing japanese and u.s games and systems since 1991. I have no problem paying over a thousand dollars for a games machine to get one the week it's been launched in japan. Like wise I've no problem paying 'silly-money' for individual games or merchandise from my favourite series or systems.
But I go in and out of the gaming passion, every few years I lose interest with how the market shifts around and can't find anything new I want to play. So I do other things until I drop back into it. It'll just take a new game or hardware announcement I'll be back into it with all the passion and fervour again.
Games have been the only consistent passion I've kept up for the last 20 years though. I was obsessed with Lego for 4 or 5 years, Garbage Pail Kids for a few, 80s yoyos for a time too and numerous other things along the way. But they've all be very finite interests. I'd go in wholeheartedly and research and buy but because theres only 'so many' you can collect before you've either got the lot, or the ones you're after, I soon find myself losing interest and moving onto the next thing. Don't get me wrong, I still ADORE all my old collections. I love going through my thousands of Garbage Pail Kids and changing my Lego displays, but then I'll move on to newer things.
With most of my passions they go back to being things I loved as a kid, or never got the opportunity to as a kid. Whenever I get into something I'm always thinking in the back of my mind 'how longs this going to last before you've had enough?', and usually I can set myself goals so that when I've gotten all I want, I'll move on.
But with boomboxes, I've never ever been able to answer that question. Well, actually there was once. When I first started collecting and I found my first radio, and it was a GF-777 and it was a massively huge deal to me. My friend with me at the time asked if I was going to get more and I said 'No! This is the one I wanted, that's enough' he replied with 'Bullshit'. Needless to say, every time he comes over he always, without fail, brings that up.
This aside, I never had any limitations or 'checks' in place when I started seriously collecting to set what my goals were. I did form a list of all the models I needed. But it was never a 'these and these only' deal. Just the ones I needed to really work at getting. When I started up I'd take anything with a cassette deck, you guys know what it's like, can't let any pass you by, especially locally. Over the first year I worked out what I liked and didn't like and got realistic about where my passion and collection was going. So I made a few critical decisions about what I collected that made my passion more focussed and also meant every radio I got was going to be just as special as that first 777.
Three years later, I'm still going very strong. I've run out of room for them a few times and ripped windows out of my house to make for more wall space for display and I'm always looking for new places for shelving. I've got a fair bit of room left and I could quite happily double my collection without having to do massive renovations again. Keeping space a priority is essential, I've found.
The best part is I go through my neeeds list I made 3 years ago and I've managed to get about 75% of them. But the list underneath which I add to has balanced it out and for every one I get another seems to be added without trying. I don't see my interest dropping from this hobby for quite a while.
The big, BIG thing that keeps any of my passions going is other people and sharing the experience. With all the others that have dropped theres usually been friends that were into them too that lost interest and doing these things on your own is never as much fun. This is where all you guys come into the picture.
I always say, without the community of collectors on here and s2go I'd still be looking for radio number one. Being able to share your passions and experience others' is what makes this hobby always interesting and entertaining.
For me collecting boomboxes is the perfect storm. One I've been looking for many years that will endure and give me untold amounts of pleasure.
And it's all YOUR fault, guys!!
Thanks greatly for that, brothers.
Rock On.
Terry
Member (SA)
Excellent Post Glue.
As a new collector, when I see you guys talk about the beautiful boxes you have acquired (sometimes for a song) I shake my head in wonder at my stupidity that I didn't start collecting boomboxes 20 years ago.
..........but I have collected other things, some of which I have sold to make up the cash for recent purchases, for example Bundaberg Rum & Merchandise, Coke Merchandise and unopened bottles and I also have a pretty good collection of first edition books from a wide range of Australian authors, with quite a few dollars tied up there I can see I will sell some of those on the bay, with the cash going towards my personal grails.
Collecting is a wonderful thing, and I find it's a personal thing that many of my friends don't understand. Oh why do you collect that old rubbish is something I've heard a few times, and my son the other day raved on about how his new iPod was so much better than a boombox. I just smile and nod my head, because I know the truth, and if you don't, I can't help you.
As a new collector, when I see you guys talk about the beautiful boxes you have acquired (sometimes for a song) I shake my head in wonder at my stupidity that I didn't start collecting boomboxes 20 years ago.
..........but I have collected other things, some of which I have sold to make up the cash for recent purchases, for example Bundaberg Rum & Merchandise, Coke Merchandise and unopened bottles and I also have a pretty good collection of first edition books from a wide range of Australian authors, with quite a few dollars tied up there I can see I will sell some of those on the bay, with the cash going towards my personal grails.
Collecting is a wonderful thing, and I find it's a personal thing that many of my friends don't understand. Oh why do you collect that old rubbish is something I've heard a few times, and my son the other day raved on about how his new iPod was so much better than a boombox. I just smile and nod my head, because I know the truth, and if you don't, I can't help you.
. 
with the fatdog --
Lasonic TRC-920
Moderator
Boom Shaka Laka, that was great read! Thank you for that! Nothing in life is truer!
And to that I want to say "My Name is Lasonic TRC-920 and I'm a Boom-A-Holic".
I'm sure many of you can tell a similar story, I had fond memories of "The Glory Days". The "3 touch downs in a single game" of high school football (Al Bundy). A few years ago I was talking with a good friend mine and for the first time in years remembered my boom box from when I was a teen. I had literally forgotten how much time I had spent with that electronic device.
I then stumbled upon Pocketwatch and S2G and then here.
My collection is more of the "Hording" category then a "Catch and release". I'm the same way with Cars!
Much like the way some women find the most "F'd up" man they can and have the need to "FIX" them. I am that way with radios. "Oh, I can make it better", "I can improve what the original designer intended". Of course I know I lack the technical ability to do so, but if I string 10 of them together....Its BETTER!
With all that said, I don't buy the BIN eBay items and I rarely find them in the wild, so most of what I have is something that I bought from a member OR really searched it out and wanted it for what ever reason, personal choices I guess!
I'm lucky (so far) in the fact that my wife supports what I'm doing, because she knows it keeps me home and out of trouble. If I'm here on Boomboxery or S2G, learning, searching or in my workshop tinkering then I'm not our "Perusing".
It's still a good life!
L-TRC-920
And to that I want to say "My Name is Lasonic TRC-920 and I'm a Boom-A-Holic".
I'm sure many of you can tell a similar story, I had fond memories of "The Glory Days". The "3 touch downs in a single game" of high school football (Al Bundy). A few years ago I was talking with a good friend mine and for the first time in years remembered my boom box from when I was a teen. I had literally forgotten how much time I had spent with that electronic device.
I then stumbled upon Pocketwatch and S2G and then here.
My collection is more of the "Hording" category then a "Catch and release". I'm the same way with Cars!
Much like the way some women find the most "F'd up" man they can and have the need to "FIX" them. I am that way with radios. "Oh, I can make it better", "I can improve what the original designer intended". Of course I know I lack the technical ability to do so, but if I string 10 of them together....Its BETTER!
With all that said, I don't buy the BIN eBay items and I rarely find them in the wild, so most of what I have is something that I bought from a member OR really searched it out and wanted it for what ever reason, personal choices I guess!
I'm lucky (so far) in the fact that my wife supports what I'm doing, because she knows it keeps me home and out of trouble. If I'm here on Boomboxery or S2G, learning, searching or in my workshop tinkering then I'm not our "Perusing".
It's still a good life!
L-TRC-920
djetaine
Member (SA)
I love the black boxes. I thought the c30 was silver and black though.Kenpat said:Superduper said:
Denial is a river in Egypt...
I have been hoisted by my own petard. My habit of buying anything with line-in that is under $10.00 has quickly pushed my collection to 25 in 10 months. I figured on 1 or 2 grails per year but now I need space for that to happen. I just don't know of anybody who wants ubiquitous black boxes (Sanyo C-30, C-35, etc.) and some of my first loves I would be hard pressed to part with (Sharp GF-9090, Panny 5150, etc.)
To be blunt, I don't want to sell anything.
I WILL have the GF-9696 I crave.
I am quickly getting into the addiction but my recent wedding and honeymoon has cleaned out my finances (which has probably been for the best) I've started thrifting and hitting up garage sales looking for diamonds in the rough to resto. I think the most fun part about this whole thing is the restoration process. TBH, I don't really even listen to them that much, I just love to restore and collect. All of you talk about getting a storage unit?? NEVER. I'll add another room to my house if it ever comes to that.
I only live with my wife in a 3 bedroom house with a multi function garage/living space so I'd have to really pick up the pace to have to do that though, lol.
Boom Shaka Laka
Requiem Æternam
So true... and true about any hobby. Although it can be done, it's really rough being interested in something (especially when it involves collecting) when there's no one to share it with. Or trade with or brag to or get advice from. It's like going to the movies alone.Gluecifer said:
Two words of warning, tho...
1. Sharing a collecting hobby tends to make you want more of what you collect. Not just to "keep up with the Jonses" (although it's sometimes just that), but as a way of keeping the conversation new and fresh. Be careful not to buy a boombox just so you can tell someone about it.
2. There's always the potential for jealousy and/or competition when two people interested in the same thing start to compare notes. I can't tell you how many people who've liked a boombox I found tried to get it away from me. "Say, that's a real beauty you have there. Let me know when you want to sell it." When someone you know finds something you like, rejoice with them. Period.
mellymelsr
Member (SA)
...love reading all the stories!!...and here is mine...I initially had a 3 boombox deal with the wife. I wanted an M70, M9994, and an M90 and that was it. Well after getting a chance to visit Norm's Boombox Emporium and sample some heavy hitters, my eyes opened wide and my list began to grow. I have sold a few that were beautiful to look at and not so beautiful to listen to. Now I am up to 20 grail type boxes that I love the sound of and there are always those I hear that I would like to add. So now that I know what type of sound a box must have for me to want it, choosing a box is easier but paying the premium price for a box in that category is hard! Most surprising to me during all of this is the reaction I always get from other people when I carry a box around (usually an M70) the people love them and always say " I haven't seen one of those in years" or "wow that is cool, where can I get one?", but a crowd and good conversation always sorround a boombox when in public. So for me it's the great memories I get reminded of when I listen to a box and the appreciation that others have for this great hobby that continues to fuel my fire for boomboxes!!
BMoney said:fashion accessories?
some are impractical for rainy days?
few boxes before '85 meet no need?
i'm not following you.
Fashion accessory = some boxes match or clash with some garments. Also, I can't hold a box on my shoulder if I wear a fedora.
Rainy days = big boxes are hard to take shelter with and don't fit under a spare keffiya come rain-shield
crummy old boxes are still good = even the worst-sounding ones may be okay to doze off to, wake up yawning to, or use on a real lazy day where weight and curb appeal trumps fidelity. They can also make great photo props or decor.
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