Not a common pick up you can make every day!

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koleloi

koleloi

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Heard a lot of positive feedback on this box before so It was on my whist list for a while. Me, in fact, have had two of its "close" brother, at least by model number, so it's even more desired.

Had a good chance to get one few weeks ago when I visited Cambodia and found one, but that one's cosmetic turn me down.

One of my sellers (who I bought my RX-5080 from) did know I want this model so much so few days ago he called me and told that a really good one just arrived (he's a dealer). He immediately sent me some pics and to my surprise, it's not only in good looking shape, but it's even still covered in its original leather case. Not a kind of stuff we often seen, I thought. The deal was sealed quickly at $90. I'm quite happy with this one :clap: .

Here it is guys, a very good looking and sounding from late seventies: a National RS-4350, a Japanese domestic two band version, in its original genuine leather case - and it will share a home with his close brother: RS-4250 and RS-4360 forever :yes: :

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I will try to take more pictures later with my poor camera and to put it aside my Aiwa 955 for some comparison. Maybe this weekend.

Thank you for reading. Cheers;
 
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ralrein1

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Congratts!!! Very nice score on a beautiful box. The leather case for it is almost unheard of in this day and age. I'm looking forward to more pictures of it with its brothers.👍👍
 
koleloi

koleloi

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Thank you guys for commenting.

Redbenjoe is right, this box has real deep bass, it can get low. I'm really amazed by its bass, regarding this model was introduced in 1976. I have heard some boxes from the period 74 to 77, and most of them has NO bass at all. At the same time, it's not common for a 16cm speaker box can produce that deep bass. The only box in my collection that has this kind of bass (and better) is the Toshiba RT-S90. The mid and treble are good and accurate too.

Then, considering its MSRP was at 74.800 Yen (really big amount) and the year this box came out, I'm quite sure that it's very first high quality sounding boombox from Matsushita, if not the first.

It doesn't only sound good. it looks really beautiful & classic to my taste, a very nice typical Panasonic layout. And its built quality are extremely good, you can tell it just by touching and pressing those sliders/cassette keys etc. The chrome top panel is well built, very firmly.

It has bass/treble/balance control, dial light, line in/DIN input and line out/speakers out. But you must press Play + Record to get Line-in work. It doesn't have wide/ambience mod.

Some specs for your interest:

Dimensions: 51x29x16 cm
Weight: 7.9 kg w/ batteries
Speaker size: 16cm and 3cm
It use 100V power supply or with 6 D-cells.

At the end of the year, it'll be sitting in my home, with its National family :yes:

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