Strangest looking box you've ever seen?

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Reli

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For me it's the Watson/Tristar RR-5571. It was a 3-piece sold in Germany, but I don't know where it was made. Check out the cylindrical tuner dial! And the very odd speaker design, with a total of 8 speakers! I wonder if all of them are real? Notice on the back there are extra output terminals for "Rear Speakers", but I have never seen any satellite speakers for this model. It's the same story with several Fisher black boxes, they have extra terminals for "rear/surround speakers", but I've never seen any such speakers on Ebay. :-/


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floyd

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Strange but kinda cool looking.
The speakers probably are real as they don't look like piezo tweeters.
A smaller woofer can sound better than a larger speaker and is more efficient with power.look look at the fh 7 it only has 4 inch woofers but can bang out some sound. I like it lol.
 
floyd

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Google the studebaker avanti stereo boombox.
It's kinda like a hitachi 3d . pretty cool looking. Strange but cool.
 
floyd

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Reli said:
Yeah that's pretty ugly, but looks like it might have some decent bass.

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For a new boombox it had a lot going for it.
A real subwoofer
Real tweeters
Chrome knobs
Analog tuner
Bass ports
Cd player
Separate bass treble balance controls
A decent looking handle.
Led lights.
A tuner scale.
It's not super ugly .
Like I said it has more going for it and the price is not too bad.
 
Tinman

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Reli said:
For me it's the Watson/Tristar RR-5571. It was a 3-piece sold in Germany, but I don't know where it was made. Check out the cylindrical tuner dial! And the very odd speaker design, with a total of 8 speakers! I wonder if all of them are real? Notice on the back there are extra output terminals for "Rear Speakers", but I have never seen any satellite speakers for this model. It's the same story with several Fisher black boxes, they have extra terminals for "rear/surround speakers", but I've never seen any such speakers on Ebay. :-/


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That rolling tuner dial is pretty cool.
Other than that, I'm not digging it.
Those speakers look like they welded three different pieces together to form one.
 
Brutus442

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Although I can appreciate the design departure effort on the Tristar......If I were in the room at the design meeting for that unit, mandatory drug testing would have been initiated. The speaker cabinet alone looks like it was modelled around a 50 year old Lego set.

However if I had small children around the house when this thing was created, I'd never have to fear them tripping and banging their head on a sharp corner on this thing.
 
floyd

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Brutus442 said:
Although I can appreciate the design departure effort on the Tristar......If I were in the room at the design meeting for that unit, mandatory drug testing would have been initiated. The speaker cabinet alone looks like it was modelled around a 50 year old Lego set.

However if I had small children around the house when this thing was created, I'd never have to fear them tripping and banging their head on a sharp corner on this thing.
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Although this Boombox might not be the most beautiful if you were to put it in a room with all the normal boxes you're used to seeing you would probably spend more time looking at this one than the others just because it's that strange. Sometimes ugliness draws more attention than Beauty.
 
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BoomboxLover48

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Reli said:
For me it's the Watson/Tristar RR-5571. It was a 3-piece sold in Germany, but I don't know where it was made. Check out the cylindrical tuner dial! And the very odd speaker design, with a total of 8 speakers! I wonder if all of them are real? Notice on the back there are extra output terminals for "Rear Speakers", but I have never seen any satellite speakers for this model. It's the same story with several Fisher black boxes, they have extra terminals for "rear/surround speakers", but I've never seen any such speakers on Ebay. :-/


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It looks like an ugly version of our Panasonic DT 680 with those cylindrical drum tuning dial. I think it is from the same time period.
 
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Reli said:
For me it's the Watson/Tristar RR-5571. It was a 3-piece sold in Germany, but I don't know where it was made. Check out the cylindrical tuner dial! And the very odd speaker design, with a total of 8 speakers! I wonder if all of them are real? Notice on the back there are extra output terminals for "Rear Speakers", but I have never seen any satellite speakers for this model. It's the same story with several Fisher black boxes, they have extra terminals for "rear/surround speakers", but I've never seen any such speakers on Ebay. :-/


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I'm not sure there ever were satellite speakers for this maybe it was just meant to hook up some speakers you already had to the surround sound.
 
Radio raheem

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floyd said:
I don't mess with mouse traps I go straight to rat traps lol. One size fits all.
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the last one i split in half lol just bought a jvc x500 the last one in the range hope it's as good as the 200 lad. these sound better than a kaboom just not as loud
 
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Radio raheem said:
the last one i split in half lol just bought a jvc x500 the last one in the range hope it's as good as the 200 lad. these sound better than a kaboom just not as loud
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If you got one with a working CD player and LCD that's a luxury itself lol
JVC really f***** up when they made these underpowered because these things sound fantastic.
 
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