Ever seen one of these?

[MANTI5 10+ year member]

It's considered one of the "Holy Grails" of boomboxes/ghettoblasters.

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[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Im intrigued, tell me more.

 

[tipnitty 10+ year member]

Ahh an artifact from being "cool" walking down the city streets before sagging pants and ghetto rims where cool.

 

[MANTI5 10+ year member]

Im intrigued, tell me more.

It's a late 70's model and is one of a handful of models that get put in the holy grail category. It's built like a tank and they go for around $100 not even working and parts missing.

 

[MANTI5 10+ year member]

double

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

Bi-phonic is bi-winning!

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

It's a late 70's model and is one of a handful of models that get put in the holy grail category. It's built like a tank and they go for around $100 not even working and parts missing.

I was hoping to get some more specific info on why this particular unit is a holy grail. I had a few boom boxes in my day, a couple as large and appearing to be as elaborate as this one. I was just curious if the speakers were some high quality drivers you might have specs on, or something of that nature.

Dont take this as criticism, I appreciate your blast from the past thread. Im just hoping to dig a little deeper into it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[MANTI5 10+ year member]

Honestly, I'm not sure as it's not an area I'm too familiar with. I saw it at a yardsale and grabbed it thinking it might be worth a couple bucks, dug around and found references in collectors forums about it being one of the sought after models. My guess is it's because it's one of the first elaborate style that came out at the start of the craze, it's high quality, and not so common.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Honestly, I'm not sure as it's not an area I'm too familiar with. I saw it at a yardsale and grabbed it thinking it might be worth a couple bucks, dug around and found references in collectors forums about it being one of the sought after models. My guess is it's because it's one of the first elaborate style that came out at the start of the craze, it's high quality, and not so common.

Cool, thanks for posting it up. Yeah, in the late 80's I would have creamed my shorts over that thing. Even if it only had a single tape deck. Direct copies from one tape to another was 'hi fidelity' back then. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Bassin Buick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvw63nDydkU

 

[Bassin Buick]

 

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I love me some old school jvc boxes. "while my JVC vibrates the concrete" (LL cool J)

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

LOL A built in tube-television... I bet that sucker was light to carry around. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

And it uses only 36 D batteries!

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[Bassin Buick]

JVC 3090CQM 3090 CQM VINTAGE TV BOOMBOX SW,AM,FM RADIO! - eBay (item 290548465252 end time Mar-29-11 18:44:59 PDT)

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

And it uses only 36 D batteries!
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Ah the good old days...