Had a friend who also collects boomboxes come to my house yesterday
to talk about wants and needs for our collections and also to check out what i was
hording away from the rest of the world
In all my finds one radio i had not had the luck of finding was a Sanyo 9996, the baby to the
desirable (to some of us) 9998
My friend, who has started to get quite a nice boombox collection going of his own, happened to be
lucky enough to secure 2
so a trade was made 
Truth be known i was never really sure of the 9996, it always seemed to me to be a cheaper, lesser
copy of the 9998 and one i wasnt going to fight over on Epay and end up paying top $$$
.....but now i have definately changed my mind.
This really is a great radio. Looks good, sounds great, nice and loud and clear. And the green dial light
and LED meters looks fantastic (sorry about the grainy pic bellow)
Not to mention that as rare as the 9998 seems, i believe the 9996 to be even less seen !
It does have line-in but this is for recording only so play and record have to be operated for line-in to
work, but like its bigger brother it has 2 settings on phono for ceramic or MM cartridge and the
ceramic works perfect as a line-in.
I have only ever known Sanyo to have this feature ?? if so congrats to them on an excellent factory
option
Havent yet finished a final detail but wanted to show off my new addition.
to talk about wants and needs for our collections and also to check out what i was
hording away from the rest of the world
In all my finds one radio i had not had the luck of finding was a Sanyo 9996, the baby to the
desirable (to some of us) 9998
My friend, who has started to get quite a nice boombox collection going of his own, happened to be
lucky enough to secure 2
so a trade was made Truth be known i was never really sure of the 9996, it always seemed to me to be a cheaper, lesser
copy of the 9998 and one i wasnt going to fight over on Epay and end up paying top $$$
.....but now i have definately changed my mind.
This really is a great radio. Looks good, sounds great, nice and loud and clear. And the green dial light
and LED meters looks fantastic (sorry about the grainy pic bellow)
Not to mention that as rare as the 9998 seems, i believe the 9996 to be even less seen !
It does have line-in but this is for recording only so play and record have to be operated for line-in to
work, but like its bigger brother it has 2 settings on phono for ceramic or MM cartridge and the
ceramic works perfect as a line-in.
I have only ever known Sanyo to have this feature ?? if so congrats to them on an excellent factory
option
Havent yet finished a final detail but wanted to show off my new addition.
