........My personal top 30 boxes from my collection: In my thread 'A few of my recent boxes' I admitted to having at least 258! boxes in my collection. I replied with 'That's a very difficult question, which I can't immediately answer, I don't think I could choose just one. I will probably do a top 10 this will be easier, tomorrow I'll have a quick review of contenders, but my JVC M70 will be in there along with a Hitachi TRK-8800 and my Sanyo M7830, so that's three' Well it turns out I couldn't even decide on a top ten, so I did a top 30 10 from each of the following: 1 piece boxes, 3 or more pieces and minis, even this was difficult! These are my personal choices and are based on many things i.e. Looks, quality, features, colour, deck etc etc or I just like it. These top 10's are in no particular order. My top 10 1 piece boxes: Sanyo M9998K with mics what can I say these are lovely Philips D8814 (Elephant) with Philips mics the analogue digital tuning is cool Sharp GF-9595E great sounding box JVC RC-M70LB it's an M70! Panasonic RX-5600 high quality box lovely deck Hitachi TRK-8800E amazing deck so many search and repeat options Aiwa CS-770A beautiful box with good DSL bass Aiwa Cs-990K another quality box with that interesting deck Tungsram CSC-850 just because it's a Tungsram and looks and sounds great Sharp VZ-2000 what a box in beautiful condition and fully working My top 10 multi piece boxes Sharp GF-990 gimmicky? but cool Sanyo C-7 very nice and sounds pretty good, I have a second set of speakers with the larger woofers improves the bass Hitachi TRK-8150E I just like these, had one in 1980 JVC PC-5 the giant killer sounds great and I have the remote Sansui CP-7 a quality box spoilt by a leaked LCD but fully working Sharp QT-89EW just because it's white does sound good though Panasonic RX-DT680 if you need a box with CD this is the one to have Sony CFS-W800 Very loud cool slide out deck controls and APM's Sony FH-7 awesome box even more so with the EBP-78 battery box I also have the PS-Q3 turtable Sanyo C 20 Weighs a ton but has a nice turntable My top 10 minis Sanyo M7900 beautiful mini with original mics Sanyo M7880K lovely mini very nice in red Sanyo MS-500K very small twin deck and a pair of them Sharp GF-7 gorgeous looks new and great in red Aiwa CS-R10 very nice with a great deck and those control buttons Fisher PH-M88 and a Sanyo M-X66 with removable microcassette player/recorders Panasonic RX-C20 probably one of the best sounding for it's size with a great deck Aiwa CS-350's high quality minis sound good and have metal fronts Sanyo M7700F nice mini with optional clip on mics these will fit other Sanyos with the same handle Sanyo M7830LG last but not least the mini that's not so mini So that's my choices please free to comment on the models I've chosen, it was hard to do as I have so many great boxes and this has taken all day.
Awesome collection, thank you for sharing. I've never seen before this aKa of CROWN CSC-850 - Tungsram CSC-850 - very interesting.
Fantastic insight to you're collection Dave, there are so many to choose just there, that sony with flip out controlls only ever seen one on ebay and the cp7 had one of those, just cracking boxes mate i could go on all day. Thanks for posting them up
Great post indeed, I love to see peoples choices and you have some corkers. I think you have a great selection in all categories. I don't own many 3 piecers as i always thought they weren't really my thing but your's may of changed my mind, the Sansui and JVC are gorgeous.
You've got a great eye for the classics. There's a distinct tone throughout this lineup. Sanyo and Aiwa mini's are gems. I do like that Panasonic RX-C20. Do the speakers detach? The red Sanyo M7880K is wonderful, looks better in red than blue. Hitachi TRK-8800 is a very rare machine. The only other one I've seen belonged to respected member Litfan.
Some great boxes there! 258!?...how do you even store that many? I've got about 60 and I think I have too many lol
Thanks everyone for the nice comments much appreciated! Yeah this was a great find I've never seen another nor any other boxes with this brand, got this at a carboot sale for £6. It didn't look so good when I got it, had to buy a smashed up Crown for the cassette door and keys. Here's a before picture: Yeah multi piece boxes are often overlooked, but there are few everyone should have Yeah space is a problem most of my boxes are in this one small room, not ideal I'd love to able to display them all properly. My problem is I also have a large collection of walkman (300+) vintage radios (100+) Discman (50+) and there's more, vintage CD players, loudspeakers etc etc. The elephant I love it, Ebay bargain! The Rx-C20's speakers do detach, the 7880 in red one of my real favourites,anhe 8800 a rare machine so much better than the more common 8190/8290's
We seem to be missing an image there. It sounds as if you have an interesting collection there Dave. I wonder what vintage your radios are. At one point I had loads of Valve (tube) ones but I sold them off when I moved house as I never used them. Then I tried to collect the entire Sony SW range. I still have the 2001D, 2010, SW1, SW100 and a couple of different 7600s. An interesting thought. I wonder what your collection cost when new. Even in todays money it might have been more than your house. In 1980s money definitely.
My radios are from the late 50's through to the very early 70's I decided to collect mainly one brand Bush, to try and keep the numbers down, also only transistor or battery valve sets. I had owned a Bush MB60 for as long as I can remember and restoring this started my radio collecting.
I have the Panasonic RX C20 which is an exceptional box with amazing bass for it's size! I also have the Panny DT680, but both of the decks are faulty due to chipped gear teeth on the super thin gears they decided to use at the time. I have an old bookshelf unit with the same decks, but Haven't got around to swapping some parts out of it yet.
My hobby pal thinks that this Tungsram is a Hungarian brand back then. At least the logo is the same. Tungsram is in one of Hungary's largest, oldest, and internationally most prestigious firms, known for light bulbs and electronics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsram
Thanks for the answer Dave. I have only just read tis as I'm currently on holifay in Lanzarote. I had to check what a MB60 is. I have the transistor version and the one with VHF (the original 1960s version) which all use the same case. Also have a Bush TR130 that has been in the family about 50 years now. How time flies. As for Tungsram I have definitely seen their light bulbs. In the U.K. the sort of thing you get in discount stores or Markets some of which still sell incandescants "rough service for industrial use only" of course
