Were Crowns ever sold in North America?

[Radio raheem]

it's kicka$$ my friend

 

[floyd]

it's kicka$$ my friend

I cut up two good boxes to make this thing it looks just as good from the back I feel like the tetris champion of the world after the piecing this thing together.

 

[Radio raheem]

Well worth the effort lad that is one hell of a unique boombox homie, looks as good as a 777 imho

 

[floyd]

Well worth the effort lad that is one hell of a unique boombox homie, looks as good as a 777 imho

I agree but I still take the GF 999 any day over any of those other ones that's a badass looking boombox.

 

[floyd]

I better get back on topic before Hans has my hide for threat Jacking.

 

[Reli]

Show us a pic of the back!

 

[floyd]

the filthy dirty unedited pic.

 

[Reli]

Ha ha, that's legit. They really did a good job styling the back of that box. The circle makes it seem like the woofer was so big it needed more space, and the big slanted indentations on each end try to look like bass ports on a sub box

 

[floyd]

Ha ha, that's legit. They really did a good job styling the back of that box. The circle makes it seem like the woofer was so big it needed more space, and the big slanted indentations on each end try to look like bass ports on a sub box

these back case panels are very strong and very hard to break. I had to sweat every time I made a cut because if I f***** up I f***** up two boxes. even the front grills are removable.

 

[deech]

An old thread about the Crowns.

https://boomboxery.com/forum/threads/crown-the-king-is-back.27456/

 

[Reli]

they were definitely not sold in Japan even if they were manufactured there.

Except for the RX-9800, it has Japanese text

 

[mudman]

I think it was "Zayre?" Ours turned into "Zody" but didn't last long after that.

Definately sold in the USA, all of mine have a UL Sticker on the back. Here's another old thread with more pages of information...

Crown --- The King is Back

Its been a long time since i wanted to make this post. It was in my head for many months but time was not on my side . Now that Xmas are approaching...

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There's an ad from USA Rolling Stone Magazine with a bunch of Crown's Listed.

This is from 1973 in a USA Magazine, while the Crown CSC-505FW from this era (one of the biggest baddest Crown Boomboxes) isn't listed, the boombox does have an "FCC" license sticker on it.

One of the bigger issues is that there was already a Crown USA Audio Company from Indiana, I'm pretty sure there were a lot of trademark infringement lawsuits between the two so there might have been some import issues as well.




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