I do love my mini's but when a ground-shaker shows up I do have to show some respect. My newest friend is the Panasonic RX-5350, one of the biggest-baddest-boomboxes of all time clocking in at 27 lbs. I thought it was going to be a little heavier but it's pretty easy to carry. This one is going to need some cleaning up, a couple buttons and a check on the internals, as some of the functions are intermittent. The old pocketcalculator website had some NIB boomboxes in the early 2000's, I think it was this model but they also had 3/4" rosewood sides to make them look really polished. They were around $700.00 USD 18 years ago but you might have doubled or tripled your money if you held on to one. I think I have my selling tape almost memorized, time to crank some Bob Marley!
Wow, this would be a killer for our AA thread "beer and bboxes" Ever since my 1990 purchase of Sony's ES cassette deck with wooden side-panels, I am a sucker for such things! Have yet to get myself one of these: 7200, 7000, and 5350, but after reading thru boomboxery thread about their two-sided printed boards I am afraid to get into this kind of mess. But I digress, she is Beautiful!!! Bob Marley?!! I almost hear the sound of lager being extinguished!!! Where did you score this Beauty? I bought myself a $40 birthday present off Yahoo-Japan of a mid-sized Panas of my dreams, but after paying $160 fees for shipping realized (yet again!) that I am an idiot!!! Should have bought one of these, or at least JVC-M70... Digress again!... This Is a BEAST!!! I want it!!!
You know I took to heart what WELTRON CLAIRTONE BRAUN said about searching your local area as he's found some wonderful units. Since November I've found this, my VZ-2000, and a few other monster boxes. This one, believe it or not, was from a electronics recycling plant, somebody was throwing it away! Luckily it was plucked from certain destruction and put up for sale.
Very nice, you should post a thread since these are super-rare and very nice looking! I love the late 70's period, fat boxes with a purpose, even the piano keys look mean. Good luck fixing it, it will be a nice labor of love.
Oh, it will!!! Once done with JVC's El Diablo which has to be rebuilt from the ground up (so far only my beloved Nak LX-3 were getting such a total strip-down!) my "idle hands" will get busy with this beauty! As stated in my intro I Love Discmans, love resurrecting the babies, they play all my multi-thou CD collection when I'm on the Go and estranged from my CDX-3... But... Cassettes sound sooo much more "alive", even if recorded off CDs or Tidal that I tend to question my sanity... My fav writer Art Dudley (of Listener, now with Stereophile) said once that he loves distortions when trying to compare vinyl to digital. Makes me feel better knowing that there is No explanation. Analog just sounds better, God knows why?...
