My Favorite Boombox! Sony from 1991!

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

Congratulations on reaquiring your old boombox radio. My first real ghetto blaster was the Panasonic rx-f35. Got for my 17th birthday and it rocked ! 7.5 watts per channel rms. Separate bass and treble knobs and a loudness button. Plus left and right L.E.D. meters. Then in 86 I joined the Navy and after boot camp I was stationed in Meridian, Miss. Went to the base exchange and bought a Panasonic rx-c48. That was the first radio/boombox I purchased with my own money as a young adult making my way out in the world. Have since required both units and many more. Love vintage boomboxes.

[@paulrb894]

Great video. My first boombox was a Philps D8132 which i still have in fully working order, My first hifi was a York hs3131 brought with my first months wages from Woolworths in London Victoria which is still working albeit in my attic safely covered up . Loved my tdk mar cassettes although took along time to save up for . 😅. Cheers

[@Recordology]

Thanks for sharing

[@FSM_Reviews]

Awesome! The white-tipped antennas, green headphone port, matte black plastic, and 'SONY' engraved into the handle are some of the hallmarks of 90s Sony boomboxes that I'll never get tired of seeing.

[@martynlewis9020]

For me the equivalent device sat before this unit in the boombox timeline. Mine was a Panasonic RX C45LE which was just a cassette player radio. I found one forsale on Ebay here in the UK in a neighbouring city and I had to have it. The guy selling it had re capped it and it was in immaculate condition with no scuffs or scratches. When I walked into the guys kitchen where he'd set the unit out for me to view I was almost knocked sideways with emotion, it was like seeing an old friend for the first time in 40 years. I drove home with it on the passenger seat and probably had several near collisions through staring at it instead of the road. Now the unit comes out with myself and my partner whenever we go away in our campervan, sitting outside listening to some 80's mix tape and drinking cold beer! My partner is somewhat perplexed by the relationship I have with what she perseves to be an inanimate object!

[@Trance88]

I had a Fisher Price Kiddie cassette player from a very early age. I was 2 or 3 at the time. That was my first audio device. For my 5th birthday, I got a Soundesign cassette-radio stereo boombox in red with blue speaker grilles and a yellow handle.

[@joesmith4443]

I had the Fisher Price Kiddie Vinyl.

[@duprie37]

The Sony CFD was my first CD boombox as well & it was a really nice solid unit. Great memories of all night music sessions. I still have a cassette with stuff I recorded off FM radio with the unit & the recording quality just blows anything around today out of the water.

[@raloria9173]

Late comment on this video, but I wanted to share that I was thoroughly devoted to Sony products from the late 80s-on and have almost never been disappointed. It was just top of the line stuff every time. Have several old Sony boomboxes and....even today they still work! And I used them a lot. I only upgraded to a different machine because I wanted some new feature (Like a CD player!). Didn't have this particular model, but great job on finding one in such great condition.

[@99solutionsit10]

17:07 the arrow is to know the running direction of the tape, helping to insert correclty the cassette. The side you see, whatever that is A or B is the playing side.

[@sammcbride2149]

That's a very handsome boombox. I never got a boombox until I was well into my adult years. The one I use now is a RCA RCD159. It has funky controls which provide me with additional amusement beyond the functionality. Sometimes I totally forget how to use it haha. I loved the transition to CD. I found the whole process of discovery to be so exciting. I had no great love for vinyl records in those days they seemed clunky and inconsistent and I wasn't old enough to be nostalgic for them yet. CD's were like my audio dreams come true. When MP3's came along I was disenchanted with them and found them to be utterly without charm. They sounded bad and you couldn't even see them! CD's are still my favorite format. The best of all worlds.

[@donaldpump3072]

Never had anything cool as a kid now at 40 I treat myself.

[@ygtx44]

If you like handsome boomboxes check out jvc or victor rc-xc3 looks and sounds awsome i bought one and restored recently has a damn cd changer

[@scottykilmer1094]

i had exactly the same model back in the days! When Sony was real Sony made in japan! The sound was amazing of this model boombox.

[@JoeOrber]

Awesome Sony CD boombox, thank you for bringing back the memories! My first CD player was also from Sony but it was kind of a micro-component-boombox-style system with detachable speakers, I'll have to look it up. Great job and I'm happy you found it 😀

[@rachelrodgers9171]

You're getting a lot of Radio stations out of that beauty! 🤩Very good reception too!

[@J0hnny8ravo]

I feel you when it comes to nostalgy. Being a 1974 year release myself, I’m very familiar with turntables, reel-to-reel, cassette decks and all that followed. My own first boombox that I actually payed for was the mighty JVC RV-B90 aka the Boomblaster, back in 1999. God, how I miss that thing! I’ve never heard a portable to match it’s sound, ever! Built like a tank, it was my neighbors’ nightmare. I wish I could find a good one like yours, regardless of price.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

Yeah the JVC Kaboom models had the best bass of any 1-piece portable from that decade.

[@Ted_adventurer]

I had this one, gosh I wish I hadn't let it go. Drained the batteries on CD playback 😅

[@catdude6186]

I received my first and only boombox at 15 in 1983. It was a Quasar (can't remember the model number). Cool thing about it was that you could detatch the tape mechanism from the main unit and use it as a walkman type device.

[@renegadeflyer2]

I have a similar Sony. It has electronic tuned radio, bass ports, remote control, and has no dials or slide controls all buttons . Everything thing works perfectly and it still in regular use. One of my best purchases.

[@superbird24]

I still have this exact boombox in the shed. It was well used as a bedroom stereo from 94-05, a shop stereo from 05-10, a garage stereo from 10-17, then a shop radio again from 17-21. It has since been retired because the speaker surrounds have blown out and vibrate when turned up. The CD and cassette portions worked up until the late 2000’s. I think I may dust this one off and get it going again. Thanks, great video!

[@arnoldtolker3505]

Ich hatte nie eine Boombox. Mit 7 Jahren bekam ich 1963 ein "Blaupunkt"-Kofferradio mit 4 (!) Wellenbereiche. Mit 13 einen "Philipps"-Kassettenrekorder. Ich habe beide Geräte mit einem DIN-Ton- und Aufnahmekabel verbunden und hatte so "Stereo"! 1977 habe ich von meinem ersten ersparten, selbstverdienten Geld eine Hi-Fi-Anlage (mit dem hier schon mehrfach erwähnten WEGA-Plattenspieler) gekauft. Mit "Marantz"-Verstärker, DUAL-Tuner und DUAL-Tapedeck. 1983 einen "Sharp"-CD-Vertikalplayer.- Die Boxen waren WEGA Vier-Wege mit u.a. 12" Bassmembrane. :-)

[@slt7139]

I really enjoyed that bit of nostalgia, my first boom box was a Panasonic

[@Recordology]

Awesome 😎

[@andrewwinton4608]

I wasn't around in the 90's when boomboxes like this were around but I did get a Panasonic RX-D55 a few years ago and it's close to what I imagine an old quality boombox to have been like, I've heard it's the last of the decent boomboxes around today, proper metal construction and good tape deck and all the features. I think it's recently been discontinued but it was an old model anyway, they just kept making it for a while.

Great video. I armed radios and amplifiers since the 50s am and old engineer and I have a Casio Boombox almost identical to the Sony but with 2 cassetes. All runs. Cheers from Patagonia Argentina

[@michelveraliot]

My neighbor saw that i was a passionate of the 80's and 90's and gave me some of her stuff inculding this Sony and i'am very happy with it sadly the cassette player is broken probably the belt but as an 21 year old it's a rediscovery of my childhood between 2006 and 2008 i had the same cd/cassette player kind of boom boxe because they where cheaper and i will forever thanks my parents for that gift... Now it's my turn to preserve that boombox

[@littlejimmy7402]

I have a super similar Sony boombox that My parents gave me for Christmas around that time. The model I have is a little smaller but same basic design idea. That boombox has sat in the garage as basically a shop radio. Just a few weeks ago I was looking at it, wondering if anything worked but the radio. I thought it might be time to move on, both of my Folks passed on in the early 00's. Sure enough, the CD player still works, the tape deck not so much. I suspect it's a belt, I'm not going to crack it open. I could probably find a belt, but I'm done with cassettes so I'll save myself the headache. I was just out of the Army and starting JuCo, I worked in a record store that sold the Sony line of boomboxes. That stereo ties me to so much of my past, takes me back. I thought I totally understood My world back then, even though I didn't really. I remember a kid in the 9th grade who wanted to put the claim that "CD's are indestructible" to the test while in art class. I'm not even sure it was his CD, oops! They aren't.

[@icpizzaboy]

I always wanted a sony boombox with a cd player like that one when i was a teenager but i got a gpx lol

[@Recordology]

That’s what usually happened to me to 😀

[@itchy.tasty.]

I can't believe the sound on those babies! I have the 1992 model (CFD-120). Found it at an antique store, downtown Athens. I have it for four years now. Got it for €20. Radio and CD are working flawlessly! Τhe tape belts need replacing and it will be perfect. Thankfully I do not listen to tapes. But I put its CD player to heavy, everyday use. It has great bass and loudness. It can fill a medium sized room with ease. It only skips if the volume is ultra loud and the vibration make the CD wobble inside the player. Which is totaly normal.

[@l4d1k06]

5:20 I was really wondering about the two albums you got with the boombox as a kid, never heard of these two guys here in Germany. The first album you bought on your own made it so clear who chose the first two. 😅👍

[@Recordology]

But to be fail - I do love them all.

[@kirkmooneyham]

The "boombox" I had and wish I could find one now in good shape was the Sony CFS-201. It was just a smaller AM/FM/Cassette box. Very simple, played loud and clear. Traded it to a guy for something else, don't even remember what now. BTW, that boombox you got, that was a great price for something in such good shape. Congrats!

[@DavidLee-zy3ju]

Hello to you from Yorkshire,brings back memories of my boombox that I bought in about 1988. I didn't have a cd player but used my dad's. Only had a few Beatles CDs then. I had a Sharp wq t238 double tape deck. It had 4 band radio, graphic equaliser,X bass and on the tape deck it had skip search. It claimed 60watts and I can vouch for it. Only downside was if you wanted for it to be portable it took 6 d batteries.

[@kevinpatrickmacnutt]

Most likely 1992 as I got the predecessor the Sony CFD-50 for Xmas 1991. The two are basically the same just the CFD-55 had some cosmetic differences and added bass boost. My friends all had the same boombox mostly since they were $179.99 which was the most affordable name brand cd box available at the time.

[@TonyBanks21]

Fantastic Video !! Those CD/Cassette boom boxes from the 1990s were,at that time,in their heyday ! You have featured a prime example,from that era !! Reasonable features and sound quality !! Compared to the GPO Brooklyn Boombox,from about 2018-that I paid nearly £280 for a few years ago,yes it has the additional features,such as Bluetooth and DAB,asd the ability to record onto USB(as well as onto cassette)-But none of the features work very well-I paid a lot of money, for something that I am extremely disappointed with,given the high price tag !! The cassette deac has since broken,no longer plays,or forwards/rewinds and my tape is trapped inside it,because the eject function no longer works !! Your Sony Boombox from 1991,knocks spots off,my recently purchased GPO Boombox,literally blowing it out of the water,in quality,sound and durability !! They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to !!

[@USAMP926C]

I actually feel a little sad for today's youth who don't know what it feels like to own physical media. I regret getting rid of mine and recently rebuilt my entire collection of CD's and cassettes.

[@wesley7753]

My grandma had one of these, not sure if she still has it but if she does I would be amazed!

[@life5161]

My buddy's father used to own this exact model. I wanted one so bad!!

[@705johnnyboy]

i had a sharp boombox it cost my parents tons of money back in the lat 70s,i still use my trusty toshiba in the workshop im going to get the tape going again as ive collected buckets of tapes the last few years lol....

[@dmcintosh1967]

I found a Sony CFD-55 but in the process of trying to repair it I ended up breaking the cassette deck so I robed all the good parts out of it scraped the rest of it.

[@dmcintosh1967]

My first stereo was one of those Crosley reproduction from 2005. The stereo was Christmas and was my first record player and I remember playing some my mom's old records on it. The record player motor failed and the cd player it would scratch CDs so I parted it and scraped in 2013.

[@Austin_King]

I remember my father owning one of these

[@alm5693]

I've got one that's very similar but may be the predecessor of the one you have. It's a bit cruder looking although the layout and speaker design are the same. Mine didn't have the mix mic input but I do have the white tip! As with every Sony boombox I've had, the cassette player controls broke after about 5 years, but the CD and radio worked when I was using it in the office 2.5 years ago. This was a fun video for reliving my own past with this player - I need to get it out of the garage tomorrow and check it out. I've also got a bigger, boxier Sony boombox with removable speakers and bass and treble controls but still takes a lot of design cues from the old one. The older one is my favorite of the two.

[@alm5693]

I'm surprised you made it through your radio scan without hearing someone say we're all going to hell.

[@sterfish]

I got this exact same boombox for my birthday when I was a kid. It was my first CD player (I got Wreckx-N-Effect's album Hard of Smooth with it). Unfortunately, the cassette part eventually stopped working.

[@brianbivins7371]

My daily driver is a Sony S2 ZS-X10 I got it for five at a garage sale, it needed a new antenna but I sourced one off a broken boombox. I love Sony boomboxes to me they sound great. I love boomboxes for some reason I would rather have a boombox over a whole hifi setup.

[@EricLDC]

The cassettes always seem so hard to repair every time I try I end up throwing em out. Even take pics just some are hard to get back together.

[@Bobby217CPA]

I had the Emerson CTR949 AM FM Stereo Radio Dual Cassette Player Boombox.

[@asbmp]

I hate to say that a lot of those older cd players may not play any of the burned or recorded CD's

[@sonlighter01]

My husband has a very similar model that he bought in 1990. It's a Sony CFD-50. The cassette door does not say CD on it, and the Sony name is in a slightly different place. My children used it throughout their childhood for cassettes and CDs. Unfortunately the cassette part no longer works.

[@rod-bits-and-pieces]

Another great video and a great bit of kit. Light years ahead of anything now. One little tip or advice on tape decks that are fully manual mechanical controls it’s best to always hit stop between going from play and fast winding. Theirs just more of a chance it will either chew the tape or spool some out that will get caught up on the pinch wheel. You can jump between one function and another no problem on a logic deck though. Enjoy your new toy!!😁

[@LILM79847]

Hi there definitely brings back memories 😊 from back in the day...my first boombox was a sanyo mcd z1 with the am/fm radio cd player, and a cassette player, /recorder. Awesome ,and very good video too there 👍oh and yes I forgot to mention that I this boombox back in Christmas 🎄 of 1993..

[@Amper-o-mat]

Nice, thank you...I used to have a decent hi fi system, and got rid of it a year ago, bought a simple cd boombox for 40€. Small unit, no more cables, connections and amplifiers, no more big speakers and that's it. It doesn't have the best sound, nor any particular power output, but it sounds nice and i realy love it more than previuos system, which took me half of the living room. Sure it will wore out in a year or two, but i will then buy another one, it's cheap. Boomboxes rules.

[@greggaieck4808]

Record ology your Sony boom box from 1991 you owenle paid 15 dollars thats so awesome

[@scott227]

Still have a CVD-10

[@charlessinger7740]

How about the Sony boombox cfd-g500? They have a really awesome bass

[@Recordology]

Those looked awesome - never had one.

[@brichardsfourty]

I have a very collectible, Sony, portable boombox CFD-260 this thing is heavy I believe it’s probably one of the first megabass boombox and I’ve opened it up and it has huge circuit boards just about everywhere lol 😂 and the magnets on the subwoofers or speakers whatever you wanna call them for the megabass it has huge magnets

[@Recordology]

Thats a very cool unit.

[@brichardsfourty]

@@Recordology thank you the only thing that is wrong with the unit unit is the CD player won’t reading disk CD’s but everything else works perfectly and this thing is extremely loud. I’ve opened this up before and it has a lot of electronics huge circuitboard. it’s a monster lol of a unit collecting Sony boom boxes I go on eBay, and they can cost a pretty penny some of them

[@greggaieck4808]

Record ology sound is good ton

[@shonstewart4957]

h hey buddy thanks for the flashback I was born in 81 so I remember those I didn't have that exact one but I had a Sony player and you could hook up a disk man to it using the auxiliary cable so yeah thanks I still love C DS and cassettes

[@Recordology]

That is so cool!

[@greggaieck4808]

Record ology CD player sound good

[@tumslucks9781]

On my Sony the headphone jack was on the front where it should be. Placing the input on top the left speaker where the cable would obstruct the controls is weird. Even Sony engineers have their quirks.

[@dJ.kNiGhT23]

I still have a Boombox it has cassette tape CD fm I think am as well the cassette player works perfectly cds I also have the remote control I'm going to sell it like new because it looks like new to me I'll see if I can get $200 or $150 Sony if feels heavy and good sound big Boombox

[@briannewell6064]

Buying used vintage gear pays off only if you can do repairs yourself. A repair shop will charge a bench fee of around 70 bucks just to tell you what it will cost to fix. You lose that if you opt out. I took in a Technics dual deck for new belts and it was going to be $250.00 minimum. I said no and wasted 70 bucks. DIY and you are golden.

[@nickbitten9910]

I love older boomboxes ,- the modern ones do not have any "boom" at all.

[@macrodriguez5697]

I have had boomboxes of all brands but there is something that I didn't notice until I became an adult, they had horrible sound quality, but in my youth that was enough. Nowadays I only have one of those Sony boomboxes that look like a flying saucer and when I listen to it from time to time I find it very lackluster, not even the bass boost can improve it. I need HI-FI or I can't enjoy music. I don't think anyone buys those boomboxes anymore even though they still sell them. For the nostalgics I would recommend a Lasonic TRC-931. It's my favorite but never owned one, and are very expensive.

[@stanleycostello718]

I lived with a couple of guys in the early '80s. Roger and Bob. Roger kept up on the latest technology. He had a computer with cassette tapes (!). In his stereo system he had one of the first CD players. I don't know how much it cost, but it was a bundle ($500.00?). I was fascinated by CD's with the bright colors and jewel box cases and they didn't get scratched. In 1985, I had a teaching position at a university and that kept me occupied. Fast forward to 2005, when I finally was able to listen to music again. I had kept all my records and CD's sounded too perfect, too sterile. They sucked all the life out of the music. I have maybe three dozen CD's which I don't listen too very often. Ones and zeros. Yeah, I'm an old curmudgeon. If vinyl is a flash in the pan, with something new just down the pike, that's O.K. Records have been in existence for over 120 years and they will be my preferred medium of sound reproduction. Anyways, have a good week.

[@greggaieck4808]

Record ology I have bombox painasonic CD tap player with mw fm streo

[@greggaieck4808]

Record ology the tap player sond good

[@greggaieck4808]

Record ology mw band good for DXing at night on the fmstreo band is good for e skip for the summer months

[@johne5543]

Sort of neat machine I suppose, but it's still, as mentioned on Techmoan, a BPC (black plastic crap)

[@Recordology]

Definitely not lol....

[@kirkmooneyham]

Techmoan, though one of my absolute favorite KZbinrs, is a bit of a boombox snob. I'm guessing he would deny that, but he loves the high-end models from the 80s that are like full stereo systems that you can carry around. For the average person, too big and heavy, and now WAY too expensive.

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[@igolfjtweetler4097]

I'm into cassette more than cd for boombox's. Just sounds bigger to me.