[kramer5150]

Stumbled upon this funny site, A little boombox history anyone?

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/birth1.html

 

[biged]

What's sad is that I actually remember a bunch of these.

 

[wafflesomd]

Gotta love the yellow shirt.

 

[Jubei]

Page 13 - Sharp's APSS!! Man, that was high tech back when I was a kid, it automatically fast forwards to the next song!!!!!!

My Dad also had the Sony FH-& MKII!!!

 

[no1likesme]

I am very tempted to buy a jvc KABOOM! to keep in my car and use when I am out of the house.

 

[kramer5150]

Scarry thing is... I'm kind of in the market for one

. Stumbled onto that www site doing a little research.

I just bought a surface ground pool for the kids, so were spending a LOT more time in the backyard. I'm looking at those fake-rock speaker enclosures and patio lighting for the yard too.

 

[biged]

Kramer, check out the JVC Kaboom. I believe they are better and cheaper from the ones they made a few years ago. I remember Brandsmart having good price.

Ed

 

[Lazarus Short]

I stumbled onto that site a long time ago. I was disappointed that they did not list my excellent Marantz PMS 6500. It is so good that I have considered using it as a preamp in my main system [it has line outs].

Laz

 

[Samgotit]

All of the sudden I'm reminded of a DIY, on-the-fly, cardboard dance floor that we [my "posse"] backward piecedmealed out of a couple hacked-up refrigerator boxes originally found whole behind the Sears that, once joined together, would unfold at the twig and grass collecting, duct-taped seams. Wow, talk about grab the hand with the fingerless glove on it, and drag me down memory lane.

I think I'll see if I can still do a head spin. I'm pretty sure nothing can go wrong.

 

[Lazarus Short]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samgotit /img/forum/go_quote.gif All of the sudden I'm reminded of a DIY, on-the-fly, cardboard dance floor that we [my "posse"] backward piecedmealed out of a couple hacked-up refrigerator boxes originally found whole behind the Sears that, once joined together, would unfold at the twig and grass collecting, duct-taped seams. Wow, talk about grab the hand with the fingerless glove on it, and drag me down memory lane.

That was creative & made a LOT more sense on the second reading. The man has talent.

Laz

 

[dj_mocok]

Old Skool boomboxes got style, current ones are just plastic cr@ps.

 

[warubozu]

Yup, the Pocket Calculator website is also a equally impressive website on vintage Walkman info. I used to frequent that website quite often when I was hunting for info on vintage Walkmans:

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/

 

[RokabillySwagger]

I actually found my gradfather's Pioneer SK-31 on that site. Wicked cool stuff. +1 for Breakin' references

 

[mrarroyo]

I quit looking after about 13 pages, did not recognized a single one.

 

[Spareribs]

Boom boxes are great. I have an old JVC from 1990 and the sound was very good. The left speaker died though. I bought a small boom box about 2 years ago from K mart for around $40 and it's not bad for casual listening. Great for kids but I don't have any.

These days, you can buy these CD shelf systems that resemble large boom boxes for around $100 or more and they actaully sound pretty impressive for the low price. Some of them come with seperate subwoofers and can sound very nice. If I was down and out with no money, these types of new boom boxes would be decent and satisfy me very much.........as long as I don't read Head-fi and other audio message boards.