Just checked this wonderful Sony CFS-100 . First of all what a great gesture from Mihai to give it to you C.ris and secondly Tre you had this beauty and you didnt post it on here first? Oh dear God.. This is a piece of art that only Sony could produce. Lucky you own this brilliant Mini system Cris. I love the pics and the little details you are explaining in youfr first post.
Kind words gents and nice to hear from you again Deech. I often think of you up on the hill, I have such strong memories of Athens. I ove my CFS-100 dearly but I'm struggling to find a good place for it where it can get some love. So far it's been a real conversation starter.
Weirdest boombox I have ever seen... and extremely original even as a combo. A thing of beauty. And what a wonderful gesture from NevOne
I recently picked up one of these too. Very good quality tuner. The speakers are amazing, very solid and heavy for their size. They need re-foaming, of course. It came with the carry case, some microphone cables, a car charger, and the manuals.
Reli, is the case to make it portable or just protection while it isn't sitting on a shelf, I'm guessing the car charger makes it portable but it's hard to tell from the box . Great find, hopefully there's more out there.
In Japan this stereo was called the CFS-600. Here's the official Sony brochure for it. Apparently they were very proud of it, because they wrote lots of technical gibberish about it. http://www.video-koubou-topaz.jp/SONY-BOOMBOX-1978.html
How can you not like the piston cassette "book-ends". The options are priceless, I wonder how many are left out there and such a great design for 1978, Sony was way ahead of the curve and really thought out they're product line back then. Holy cow, did you see the price for the CFM-800 a few brochures down? The most expensive cassette player of 1978?....a little mini at over $500 USD.
