Hi there,
We all have seen good, nicely build boomboxes. These two are not. I got them because some people know that I like boomboxes so they found it appropriate to let me dump their junk for them.
I present the images of Visseaux AVORIAZ and Grunding MK2500. Both are crappy microboxes that never produced nice sound or worked as the boombox should. One thing I do miss from this era are really good aerials. No flimsy paper thin antennas. These two have thicker antennas with mechanism that actually does let you fix it in position. However, they are not unbreakable...
I have made photos and I am posting them just as a documentation of the era. If someone has desire/need to have them, the deadline (no pun intended) is one month from now. After that, I am saving some parts and then tossing them.
Visseaux is from late 1970's and it is lacking a belt and someone probably broke power connector so now power cord is (badly) connected directly, inside. By itself, the micro-mono box is build using discrete components only, and is a good example of cheap mono radios of 1970's era.
Grunding is whole another story. First, it was not build by Grunding but by Unitra - a Polish factory that produced solid and bad stuff back in soviet era. The build quality is not "cheap-chinese bad", only about 20 years late to the scene. This one seems to be build in 1980's. I remember that Grunding was very well know for quality and their products (TVs and radios) were held high in eastern block. Overall, this "Grunding" looks a bit inferior to Viessaux, but they are not so different.
We all have seen good, nicely build boomboxes. These two are not. I got them because some people know that I like boomboxes so they found it appropriate to let me dump their junk for them.
I present the images of Visseaux AVORIAZ and Grunding MK2500. Both are crappy microboxes that never produced nice sound or worked as the boombox should. One thing I do miss from this era are really good aerials. No flimsy paper thin antennas. These two have thicker antennas with mechanism that actually does let you fix it in position. However, they are not unbreakable...
I have made photos and I am posting them just as a documentation of the era. If someone has desire/need to have them, the deadline (no pun intended) is one month from now. After that, I am saving some parts and then tossing them.
Visseaux is from late 1970's and it is lacking a belt and someone probably broke power connector so now power cord is (badly) connected directly, inside. By itself, the micro-mono box is build using discrete components only, and is a good example of cheap mono radios of 1970's era.
Grunding is whole another story. First, it was not build by Grunding but by Unitra - a Polish factory that produced solid and bad stuff back in soviet era. The build quality is not "cheap-chinese bad", only about 20 years late to the scene. This one seems to be build in 1980's. I remember that Grunding was very well know for quality and their products (TVs and radios) were held high in eastern block. Overall, this "Grunding" looks a bit inferior to Viessaux, but they are not so different.
