Music Air Boombox

you cleaned it nicely
cheers, conrad

Thanks for sharing, Music Airs are rare, does it have a country of construction on it? Here's the Music Air I posted with one of the first dual decks, Superscope (Marantz) claimed they had the first but who knows.
http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/music-air-the-first-dual-cassette-boombox.4535/

Hmmm … that’s an unfamiliar boombox brand there, Dugan: a Music Air portable stereo. Is the model name Country–Stereo?

It’s a pity that its cassette-deck mechanism doesn’t work anymore – though one can hope that the problem is highly reparable: such as only needing to replace its broken or “gone to goo” tape-deck rubber belts.

The presence of a longwave (LW) band strongly suggests that this model (and perhaps the brand overall) was made for the European market. It’s also somewhat pleasing to see the LW dial cover nearly every kilohertz (kHz) of the broadcast portion of the longwave spectrum: from 150 kHz to 340 kHz. Not much chance of some LW broadcaster eluding being tuned by that happily wide-looking tuner dial. (Grin)

The VU meters will, of course, give this unit more vintage bona fides to collectors out there, who are currently emphasizing VU meter gear in their collecting. (Or who simply prefer those wagging needles to presumably more common LEDs.)

The tuner feature does not omit shortwave (SW) coverage, covering 6000 kHz to 18000 kHz, so that’s useful. (Though the lack of fine-tuning limits ease of tuning.)

Speaking further on radio-tuning, the FM portion of the tuner numerically only reaches 106 MHz instead of 108 MHz, the way all up-to-date tuners do. That limitation reminds me of some Telefunken Studio 1 units, which many of us have at least seen. Those reputedly well-made, German-made stereos only tune FM up to 106 MHz, right? It’s only the more updated “-M” version that tunes up to 108 MHz. That is, one would get that idea from a 106 MHz marking limit. Uh, do we know if a Music Air boombox can actually tune at least 1 MHz past 106 MHz? Can someone post a video showing a Music Air Country–Stereo (if not this particular one) tuning to its upper limit of the FM dial?

Again, Dugan, hopefully you can fix up the non-functioning tape deck, its “AUTOMATIC SHUT OFF” and all. (How many boomboxes or mini-boomboxes have tape-deck doors with “AUTOMATIC SHUT OFF” spelled out and not, say, “AUTO STOP”?)

Enjoy good music with your Music Air – if only in TUNER and LINE IN/AUX mode, for now. (A Music Air Country–Stereo does have a LINE IN port, yes?)