Hello guys, I was watching something then someone pulled out this little red Sony. A google image search for red sony boxes and some digging through information about the show did not yield a model number. It looks common enough so I was wondering if anyone had one and could share the model number so I have something to look for. I'd like to add it to my collection as a fan of the series. Any help would be appreciated! This is the most detailed frame. Ignore the "Pony", they are changing it for legal reasons I believe. Other angles.
You are welcome, mate. Thanks actually to my hobby pal who did a thorough review of this radio, I remember V15 from there, here it goes. It's in Russian but the review has quite a lot of good pictures of the radio in question. http://www.shizaudio.ru/Boombox/350/it-s-a-sony-cfs-v15.
Thanks for the link, real nice writeup and an excuse to remind myself that not all Russians are a-holes (being originally Ukrainian its a tough call nowadays!)
I have often (via Google) looked at the shizaudio.ru site as it has some of the best pictures of 1980s audio gear on the web. Something I have wondered is whether any of that gear was available in the USSR back in the 1980s ? People who didn't live through the 1980s are surprised when I tell them how many Soviet products were available in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. Selena radios, Vega portable TVs, Zenit cameras and of course Lada cars were all quite common. Even shelving units I bought from MFI (the UK 1980s equivalent to Ikea) were made in the USSR and were excellent quality.
An important update from him, he corrected me.. The box at your pic is not exactly V15 but rather CFS-V11!! Now I think that's exactly dead on except for Pony and colour - what do you think? You can now expand your search, mate..
Yes, some gear was available but that availability were limited - the boxes were quite expensive as compared to the salaries back in the day and were sold for hard currency mostly in a specially assigned stores (for sailors, diplomats, all that stuff). Ah, GF-777 was one of the most popular stereos once, the same went with WF-939 and Sharp responded to the latter case - there is a Sharp WF-939ZP (Polar) with the Soviet FM (UKW) band - 65,9 - 74 MHz. The same FM band was in some other models of Matsushita aimed at the market in USSR at that time.
Selena radios, Vega portable TVs, Zenit cameras and Lada are of course qute familiar but I never knew about those shelving units - thank you, very interesting!
Ah, maybe just a note about this shizaudio.ru watermark at every pic (right bottom corner) to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding - I was told it how the database works automatically "stamping" each photo a member is uploading. Actually the site and d-base engines, AFAIK, are pretty old, not that good nowdays. Of course by no means is this watermark intended to show any kind of rights, property, etc. I myself uploaded quite a lot of pics to shizaudio.ru database I found on S2G and Boomboxery to share them with my hobby mates, otherwise I simply couldn't insert them in my posts, IMO hobby forums like ours are half-dead without being able to share infromation.
A picture of the shelves from back when I was collecting Valve (Tube) radios and Boomboxes were something you bought in the shops (if you could afford them).
