Not a crazy pic - but it shows the best sounding boombox in audio history...
"non plus ultra"
"non plus ultra"
Some. Crazy boomboxes pics
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merdy, once I had the Bang&Olufsen Beosystem 10 (your pic # 4). I have tons of Beo gear, most of it ist exciting, but this item was a huge disappointment. The sound quality was tremendously poor.
Beautiful! There's a couple for sale on ebay, all from Russia... It apparently has a an Aux-In, but I don't see it...
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Pretty sure I posted this in another thread, but what the heck. Boomboxes are fun!
Wanted one of these pretty bad as a teen. Got this one a few months ago. Goodwill.
(web-sourced pic)
I also had one of these for many years... The tape deck finally gave up, and I let it got at a yard sale about 11 years ago, cheap... Should'a kept it! They appear to be quite popular... ;-)
Bahamayellow
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Hello I really like my boomboxes. I only have 2 and they both work. I want to get one of the big sharps and a bumboxx as my next ones. 
Good call, it's probably a lot easier to find a Thorens. Your wife sounds cool, that boom box is great decoration if not the world's best stereo. I never went to any big urban areas in the US when boomboxes were still a thing. A friend of mine from school moved to NYC, and when he first moved there, he told me that boom boxes were all over the subway and outdoors. He said at first it was very entertaining to see life looking like TV, but it soon became really annoying to have all the noise in public. Me being a suburban kid growing up in the 80s, a boom box was something everyone wanted, but nobody ever put batteries in it and carried it outside, it was always on a shelf somewhere. We called them ghettoblasters though, only catalogs used the term boom box. Whenever I use that term these days, people who weren't around then look at me like I said something offensive.
I first saw a boombox with a TV built in when I was in third or fourth grade. It must have been around ‘82 or ‘83. I was soooo very jealous of the kid that was able to watch TV wherever and whenever he wanted. I can’t imagine the batteries lasted too long though.
For what it’s worth, I’ve picked up a few boom boxes from that era in the past year. Nothing too fancy, but I enjoy listening to ball games on them.
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My favorite boombox story comes from when I worked in an electronics store back inthe early 80's. it was in a rugged neighborhood where folks would buy stuff on lay-a-way, paying $5 a week or so until they could pay off the item they wanted. This rather large, soft spoken young man bought a boombox and paid off his tab every week. Several weeks later he cameback into the store and says he needs to order another box. I asked what happened to the one he just bought. His response was that he got mugged and they wanted his radio. I said did you give it up? No, was his response, "I broke it over his head."
My boss sold him the next one at cost........
My boss sold him the next one at cost........
Grenadeslio
Lunatic Member
Agree, boomboxes are one box units. If the speakers detach it's now a portable stereo, not a boombox.
My GF-575, the "little" brother, resides in storage. Everything on it is broken, but I cannot throw it away. Even the damned radio quit when I sprayed INDUSTRIAL switch cleaner into the selector switch and melted the housing. DAMMIT.
Lord, the tunes I heard through that magnificent beast.
just dave
vintage rules!
I love em just because they're "portable" and ridiculously huge.
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