What Boombox Are You Cranking Up Right Now??
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retroclub
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I still have mine. you would have to pry this one from my cold dead hands.hemiguy2006 said:Hey Mel, did that Rising used to belong to Frank? I seem to recall his had the blue LED mod. I used the cool white LEDs in mine. I'd love to switch those out to a warm LED at some point.Knocking the cobwebs off the Rising SRC 2015. I get a new appreciation for this one every time I listen to it. It's sound is so smooth. This one has a blue/purple led kit install. I haven't seen another Rising with this particular led upgrade.20190705_121020_HDR~2.jpg
Awesome looking box. The blue glow off those LED's is fantastic.
mellymelsr
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Found this C100F in the wild. It was in very rough condition. Power supply had blown up and fried the amp. Cassette deck was missing pieces. Lower cassette door was missing. I shipped it to LA for new power supply, amp chip, and cassette rebuild. I handled the paint work. After paint I installed the Caution chrome kit and new 3D cassette door from Norm and Eric. Now she looks and sounds fantastic. Lucky to have one so nice.
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Reli
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The Sencor S-5000, made in 1977....."Designed in Switzerland, Made in Japan". This thing has home-hifi quality. Weighs more than an M70. Great looking backlit meters. Metal knobs and switches. Loaded with features (zoom in to read all of them), including FM station presets. Discrete amplifiers instead of mass-market integrated amplifiers. Sounds very good with its built-in speakers, and even better with external speakers.
Hisrudeness
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mellymelsr
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One of my favorite radios to look at. I could stare at this one all day. Still in shock that I found it for $20. Very solid bass and a warm overall sound. The Toshiba BomBeat 40.
mellymelsr
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Looks like it is very high quality. Love the 70's design.Reli said:The Sencor S-5000, made in 1977....."Designed in Switzerland, Made in Japan". This thing has home-hifi quality. Weighs more than an M70. Great looking backlit meters.
Metal knobs and switches. Loaded with features (zoom in to read all of them), including FM station presets. Discrete amplifiers instead of mass-market integrated amplifiers. Sounds very good with its built-in speakers, and even better with external speakers.
Hisrudeness
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MesaAZGuy
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So I returned my GPO back to Amazon. Their price went down to $260 from the $327 I paid. I called them and they would not do a price adjustment so I sent it back. The replacement came today. I did the version check by pressing the stop button on the cd player with the unit off. It says Version 6. My previous unit was Version 5. I could not figure out what they did differently. Meter operates the same. Bass is a little punchier but that could be me. Still no chrome caps on the woofer in this production run and the tweeters are still surrounded by the silver box plastic.
Radio dial turns much easier but it sounds like the rope thread is rubbing atop a gear. Crappy in my book. Either way, I will disassemble this one in time and see what its made of whilst adding chrome caps.
Still no new radio smell but rather warehouse air from its vents. Possibly residual Chinese air or shipping container sea air....
Radio dial turns much easier but it sounds like the rope thread is rubbing atop a gear. Crappy in my book. Either way, I will disassemble this one in time and see what its made of whilst adding chrome caps.
Still no new radio smell but rather warehouse air from its vents. Possibly residual Chinese air or shipping container sea air....
MesaAZGuy
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Awww crap, we are all gonna die from something. I am more likely to keel over due to my stubbornness. Yesterday I sprayed a bedroom and bathroom with no respirating equipment! Today I am coughing up that dried primer. LOL Reminds me to go to HD and get a dust mask...
I used to have a Mercedes Sprinter Van. Most God awful new car smell ever. I left the windows open for months to get that smell out. It wasn't leathery or fabricky smelling but rather some strange plastic odor. That was the only vehicle I owned that was nauseating when new.
I used to have a Mercedes Sprinter Van. Most God awful new car smell ever. I left the windows open for months to get that smell out. It wasn't leathery or fabricky smelling but rather some strange plastic odor. That was the only vehicle I owned that was nauseating when new.
Reli
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Yeah these days they add scents to make the petrochemical outgassing smell good...So people think it's actually good for them, lol
My office had a cheap Chinese hand-truck from Harbor Freight leaned against the wall, and I could smell its rubber wheels from 20-30 feet away.
My office had a cheap Chinese hand-truck from Harbor Freight leaned against the wall, and I could smell its rubber wheels from 20-30 feet away.
Years ago, I traded a fully working Sharp GF-9292 for this super clean, fully working and recently re-belted Sanyo M9998K. Crazy?? Well after the first listen, I knew I was the real winner in this deal!! 
My two best sounding boxes!! It’s amazing how a 12 year gap in technology produces very different products!!
It’s amazing how a 12 year gap in technology produces very different products!!Ah, would that I could have me a Sanyo M-9998K. The crown of Sanyo's portable stereos in '79 or so, yes? But the lofty, lofty purchase tag remains a snag ...jimmyjimmy19702010 said:My two best sounding boxes!!
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And that Panasonic RX-DT680? As recently as June 2019, I was thinking about going for one of those fine-sounding, neat-looking three-piece machines. They were nicely made circa ... uh, circa when LOL? '91? '92?
Seems that I got cold feet: all these hang-ups about not wanting too big or too fancy a stereo always out of storage and on display in my unpristine bedroom SMH. Don't want to take a big beauty like this for granted, always having it out in the open. (Even though it’s supposed to replace a smaller, less fancy RCA RCD-152E, you know ...)
Anyway, thanks for sharing these images.