Remember the yellow VS red M90 VU thread?

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blu_fuz

blu_fuz

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https://boomboxery.com/forum/index.php/topic/16129-yellow-m90/?hl=%20m90%20%20colors


^ fun read there.


But riddle me this batman.....


RC-M90C
Cream color woofs (stamped 20w and blue paper cones on the back)
Yellow-ish VUs
AND a clearly faded red line on the tuner dial

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RC-M90JW
Blue color woofs (stamped 25w) and blue paper cones on the back)
Red VUs
Red line on the tuner dial

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Question is, if the M90C did come with cream woofs, stamped for less watts, yellow VUs, is the faded red line on the tuner dial just a coincidence?


:hmmm:
 
floyd

floyd

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mine did . also is the 70 watt c version with yellow vu meters. . never paid much attention to the wattage on the speakers though. i have a m90 jw with the blue woofers and red vu meters and an m90 c with the lighter colored woofers but they are blue on the back side.
 
skippy1969

skippy1969

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Just picking on you Joe.
It's actually interesting how many different ways these came from the factory.
 
Zippy

Zippy

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The red line has obviously faded as you have stated yourself.
The speakers have faded, too. Why should they bother to paint the back blue when they wanted the front cream?
Still, there's the possibility that someone at JVC said "Those red VUs just don't do it for me! Why don't we make them yellow-ish?" But I'll say they have faded as well.

About the W prints: we get that kind of stuff all the time. The suffixes (JW, L, C, ...) hint at different regions around the world, right? The watts claims differ from region to region. Just compare the back labels of different releases of one and the same model . It's got little to do with actual output 'power'.
 
Fatdog

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-GZ-

-GZ-

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I think they were originally purple and then faded to red and eventually yellow. Them purple VUs are hard to find these days. I think norm and monchito each have one.
 
ford93

ford93

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Guys I can tell you the original color for the VU's are red and the woofers blue. My first M90 that I had bought in 83' had red VU's and blue speakers and also when I used to go to the stores most all M90's they were selling had red VU's and blue speakers.

Unless JVC made a special class of M90's for other countries, I wish there would be some proof maybe in pictures taken from stores with these yellow VU's and cream or gray woofers. We will never know for sure, but I'm quite sure about the M90's I've seen back in the day. :yes:

I think certain climate and extreme exposure to sunlight have contributed to have the original paint to fade.
 
blu_fuz

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I think the strangest thing is that there is no inbetween shades. It is either RED or YELLOW but no orange, so if they were faded or fading there would have to be some examples of different shades of VUs between the yellow and red.


We will never know! But maybe we can just document them and see if there is a similarity or certain J/JW/W/L/C that is common to show one way or the other.
 
baddboybill

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I think the strangest thing is that there is no inbetween shades. It is either RED or YELLOW but no orange, so if they were faded or fading there would have to be some examples of different shades of VUs between the yellow and red.


We will never know! But maybe we can just document them and see if there is a similarity or certain J/JW/W/L/C that is common to show one way or the other.


Nope I had Orange ;-)
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