The Ultimate Marantz, Superscope, UNIX Boombox Thread

An ad found in the University of Michigan Newspaper for Christmas 1976 USD Pricing. It seems like Superscope's Retail was mostly camera stores, most cities had a few stores who's main products were just cameras and a few other high-margain products. As kids we loved looking at all of the cool equipment but it was silly money expensive, that's why you see a lot of "discount camera" stores listed in the back of magazines with better pricing but it was mail-order only. Check out the price on the C-108, how cow, it wasn't cheap, I wonder what makes it so costly, maybe the smaller size was harder to build?

 

This is Sony from 1974 with a very similar line-up at the same store. Superscope had USA Distribution Rights to Sony Tape Products right up to the Walkman Release, some of these units look very similar. Anybody know who was the builder for Superscope? Around 74 Superscope bought up Standard Radio in Japan, could it be their equipment or Sony or a combination?

 

Found on the Japanese Auction Site, a neat UNIX Brochure from 1983 for sale, I might have to spring for it.
The last page is the most interesting, nothing new with the boomboxes but it's interesting that all of the portables made are for sale. I can see the PC-30, PC-36, PC-88 in colors and clear, the "clone" PC-200 and a new one the PC-220? It looks like it was 34,000 Yen? Pretty expensive for 83

 

Photos of the neat little powered speakers shown in the photo above.

 

Found in a Singapore Newspaper Ad, the Marantz MS-100K from 1980, It's footprint is slightly smaller than a turntable. These are very similar looking to the boomboxes that were coming out like the PMS-7000 and the PMS-3500.

 

This just popped up for sale, the CR-800 Brochure. I think I have this one but I'm not positive, I'll have to look back through the thread. The squares below the piano keys will change colors to indicate which button you pressed. I think this was a Standard Radio Design?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203755337333?hash=item2f70c3b675:g:P8EAAOSws6lhrn7s

 

Another cool one for the CR-1200, I might have to jump on these, I've never seen them before.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1337349298...aultOrganicWeb&_trksid=p2563228.c101113.m2108

 

Yea I want this but big money...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2035344917...and=Superscope&_trksid=p2563228.c101113.m2108

 

Superscope HP10 Headphones. Did these come with 1/8" jack or did someone cut off the 1/4" jack? Still nice with the box, perfect for late night boombox listening.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144067880837?hash=item218b1d6785:g:OIMAAOSwgJ5gvn8j

 

This is a neat complete system, I messaged the seller to post that little portable brochure that's included. If you buy this please scan and post the brochure! These stereo piano key model cassette players were really rare in the early 70's, most people were still happy with mono and these would have been pretty expensive. This also has period correct microphones, these weren't the top-of-the-line but they're still pretty nice.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/373936469820

 

I don't remember listening to stereo, outside of a car, until the late 70's. Even if we had this we wouldn't know how to work it, the TV wasn't stereo, the radio wasn't stereo so it would have been useless for us kids. I'm sure guys taping live music or events would have loved it but they probably had a stereo tape deck to play it back on.

 

From Playboy Magazine 1980, the Marantz PMS 7000, I don't have the big ones from Marantz/Superscope, maybe someday. Maybe ARKAY will stop in again and let us know what he did with his collection, I think he had a few of the monster Marantz's. I thought this model came out a little later but it might be a true Marantz/Superscope Design built by Marant of Japan.

 

Superscope CR-1000A from 1976

 

Another version of the CR-1000A ad, sombody must not have been happy with the first version.

 

The Ebay Seller of the above CS-200 was kind enough to send me photos of the tiny brochure from 1977 tucked under the paperwork, I've never seen this one before. It looks like they didn't have any of the larger CRS-4000's yet? What is the model on the cover, it looks like the CR-1200 but it looks like it has an additional VU meter on the right? The white dial is awesome!

 

Nickeccles, I've been paging through hundreds of old magazines, the ads are some of the neatest things to look at, they really had to grab attention, it might have been the only chance to see a product. I can only imagine an audio company back then discussing which product to put in an ad, I'm sure they wanted you to go to the store and check out more of the line up.

While some of these ads are pretty nice, I've always considered the cartoon heads in the Marantz Ads of the 70's to be the creepiest ads of all time, they were horrible ads, anybody like them?

 

Another ad for the Superscope CR-1000 from 1977, I recently got one of these! No mention of Marantz in this ad, I think they really wanted to distance themselves.

 

A review of the $12 USD Superscope EC-1 Microphone from 1977