What Boombox Are You Cranking Up Right Now??
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Hisrudeness
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Looks like fun. Are they expensive or just a few bucks?Dr DER said:
I see that your Sharp GF-800 has the built-in digital clock/timer. Mine's the -H(S) version, with no timepiece. So, no punctuality edge with that big box. (Shrug)lupogtiboy said:If I get a chance later, I'll power up this old gal, Sharp GF-800 with a Discman and put on some Tove Lo, really got into her music lately.
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I was listening to her on one of these beasts, a Califone 2455 AV
Bargain find on a Facebook selling group, a whole £10! Has twin tape deck, mp3-capable cd player, digital radio, line in and out, 5 (yes 5!) 6.3mm headphone jacks on the rear, remote control (mines missing though). It has speed adjustment on both the tape decks and cd-player which makes some songs sound interesting!
http://www.califone.com/products/2455.php
No, your Sharp is not the "-Z" version, is it? It'll then have two shortwave (SW) bands and no longwave (LW) band. Having a one-band, would-be analog LW-tuner isn't doing one much good Stateside. But, hey, that's a Euromarket machine for you, one shrugs.
lupogtiboy
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Mark1892
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Just refurbished this Hitachi TRK-W22E today. Picked it up with one of the speakers not working and SW not picking up a signal. Couple of hours later after a good clean and servicing of all the selectors and switches and it's like new. One strange thing is it has line-in but you have to press play and record on deck 2 to hear it, no dedicated line-in selector switch.
Will be ideal in my garage which has no power supply so hopefully be gentle on the batteries 🙂
Will be ideal in my garage which has no power supply so hopefully be gentle on the batteries 🙂
True, this message (and the nice-looking JVC PC-55 in it) was posted by Ghettoboom767 over nine years ago, but I suppose that "HSM clock" meant that kitschy-looking timepiece inspired by the movie High School Musical.Ghettoboom767 said:Hi everyone-I know I srarted this thread about listening to my JVC-PC55JW and now here's a couple of pics!
Sorry-I forgot to take them while it was on.
Tonight I show a killer photos with it on and all the lights.
Bobby-Here's a close up of that original sticker.
I love this thing-many,many memories associated with my personal grail.Now don't give me a hard tome about the HSM clock.
I got it for 3.00 at goodwill and it's very loud-It will wake you up!
BTW-That is not a mirage-There's a JVC-PC-55C! right underneath this one and multiple 777's behind it!!
have a super weekend-GB.
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I automatically assumed that it was a theatre-release motion picture, but a quick check minutes ago on IMDB.com shows that it's a January 2006 TV movie. The TV-G advisory rating indicates that it was meant to be "family-friendly."
A quick Ctrl+F search shows the movie was a Disney production -- and not a great one, judging from a reviewer's scornful commentary. The reviewer scorned Disney producers using older adolescent and young adult cast members to play characters meant to appeal mostly (or entirely) to under-age-12 viewers. (Not the same thing as grown-ups playing educational characters, some of whom are always in costume -- or working as off-camera puppeteers -- in the highly successful, long-running "Sesame Street" series, I guess.)
But fear not. That's not to take away from the gadgety appeal of Ghettoboom's JVC PC-55, this hefty Eighties entry, press-surface tape deck and all.
Yes, indeed: touch-surface and press-surface technology. Nordmende showed it was possible with their 1970s Spectra remotes.
JVC models like the PC-550 resumed that clever arrangement in the Eighties.
And RX-DS-series Panasonics were even slicker with those ergonomics in the Nineties.
"What Boombox Are You Cranking Up Right Now??" How about something good. Non-malevolent. Will some Aaron Copland fit the bill?
Sharp GF-800Z,then the Sharp GF-9797E,then the Fisher Bi-wired Breachea beast!!😮😊😎🎼🎶📻📻📻
Transistorized
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I gave my parents mine. Still going. Loved that box and has a good cassette deck. Only wished it had bass and treble versus toneReli said:
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lupogtiboy
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Just cleaned up a nice little Aiwa CS-250K I won on ebay, seller said one of the speakers wasn't 'connecting' properly and would cut-out. Quick dose of switch cleaner, one new belt on the tape deck and she's working and sounding great! Just waiting for a Sony CFS-45L to arrive next that may need a little surgery........
lupogtiboy
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That Panny is gorgeous! I'd love to score something like that!
On a good note, the Sony CFS-45L arrived on Saturday, bear in mind it was sold as non-working. Plugged it in, put a tape in, played perfectly. The tuner dial was a little stuck so I freed that off, but it's weird on tuning in, the dial moves but picks up stations totally at random and not even in the right place on the scale, so need to sort that out. I've found a few service manuals online but they all seem to be in French, even the one for the 47L is in French (I think the tuner is the same as the 45L). It cleaned up like new, with only a few cracks in the speaker cover on one side having any damage, but it is missing a battery cover so need to find one of those. No pics yet but I'll grab some soon!
On a good note, the Sony CFS-45L arrived on Saturday, bear in mind it was sold as non-working. Plugged it in, put a tape in, played perfectly. The tuner dial was a little stuck so I freed that off, but it's weird on tuning in, the dial moves but picks up stations totally at random and not even in the right place on the scale, so need to sort that out. I've found a few service manuals online but they all seem to be in French, even the one for the 47L is in French (I think the tuner is the same as the 45L). It cleaned up like new, with only a few cracks in the speaker cover on one side having any damage, but it is missing a battery cover so need to find one of those. No pics yet but I'll grab some soon!
That National RX-7200 looks beautiful. Was it a model originally only for the Japanese market? (One suspects as much, from the Japanese script emblazoned on certain parts of the boombox.)
Checking on member Reli's data on WikiBoomBox.com is cause for pause: the digital tuner in fact tunes only from 76 MHz to 90 MHz, definitely indicating a non-export, Japanese-market model; radio-listener markets in Europe, in Africa and in the Americas have, for decades, transmitted upwards of 88 MHz (or, more correctly, 87.5 MHz). Not much chance of tuning an FM station transmitting from, say, 79MHz. (Shrug)
This model's digital tuner -- atypical for what looks like a boombox (but with higher-end sound quality and interfacing) -- initially attracts collectors to it. Buts its 14 MHz FM range permits the tuning of only a handful of FM stations transmitting between 87.5 MHz and 90 MHz. Unless the listener has the wherewithal to dial-search for transponders (the right word?) of FM transmitters that more usually transmit between 88 MHz and 108 MHz in the United States. (The AM portion tuning only in 9 kHz steps -- to accommodate non-zero-ending MW frequencies such as 558 kHz -- won't make for easy listening here in America, either. Stateside, it's either in 550 kHz or in 560 kHz that the MW transmitter broadcasts it programming. A 2 kHz discrepancy makes for at least faintly "staticky" listening; my experience with my Panasonic RX-DT75 proves as much, attractive though that machine is.)
But, radio-tuner concerns aside, it's still nice to observe a National RX-7200 in action, complete with the rousing sound quality and the atypical, eject-and-tilt "Feather Touch Mechanism" of the cassette deck; I just watched (again) a '7200 in mint condition on YouTube in a video uploaded by the Russian repairer/seller Laoczi2007 (a 'site member?)
Checking on member Reli's data on WikiBoomBox.com is cause for pause: the digital tuner in fact tunes only from 76 MHz to 90 MHz, definitely indicating a non-export, Japanese-market model; radio-listener markets in Europe, in Africa and in the Americas have, for decades, transmitted upwards of 88 MHz (or, more correctly, 87.5 MHz). Not much chance of tuning an FM station transmitting from, say, 79MHz. (Shrug)
This model's digital tuner -- atypical for what looks like a boombox (but with higher-end sound quality and interfacing) -- initially attracts collectors to it. Buts its 14 MHz FM range permits the tuning of only a handful of FM stations transmitting between 87.5 MHz and 90 MHz. Unless the listener has the wherewithal to dial-search for transponders (the right word?) of FM transmitters that more usually transmit between 88 MHz and 108 MHz in the United States. (The AM portion tuning only in 9 kHz steps -- to accommodate non-zero-ending MW frequencies such as 558 kHz -- won't make for easy listening here in America, either. Stateside, it's either in 550 kHz or in 560 kHz that the MW transmitter broadcasts it programming. A 2 kHz discrepancy makes for at least faintly "staticky" listening; my experience with my Panasonic RX-DT75 proves as much, attractive though that machine is.)
But, radio-tuner concerns aside, it's still nice to observe a National RX-7200 in action, complete with the rousing sound quality and the atypical, eject-and-tilt "Feather Touch Mechanism" of the cassette deck; I just watched (again) a '7200 in mint condition on YouTube in a video uploaded by the Russian repairer/seller Laoczi2007 (a 'site member?)