I have a rare Bush BR8428AA radio/cassette from ~ 1980. I have only ever seen 2 of these for sale on eBay. It is massive & unusually has 4 full range speakers; 2 circular forward facing & 2 elliptical side facing. Placing it in a corner with the side facing spkrs bouncing off the walls you get a wide stereo image.....it's great !
Looks somewhat reminiscent of the Sony CF-550 of the 1970's. An inspired by almost "clone"? Certainly interesting!
There seems to be very similar versions of this floating around, The GE 3-5256A, the Williamson AIE-2000 and, I think, a few others. Around this time (1977-1980) we were seeing a few of the manufacturers using "generic" bones and capping them off with a slightly different vision with different branding or sometimes within the same company like the Superscope 4000 and Pioneer 61, 71, 91. Taiwan and Hong Kong were like Lego Factories churning out parts that anyone could buy for their own version of a BBX. Otherwise, that's a killer boombox and in my opinion it's what blew up BBX sales, what kid wouldn't love carrying that around, VU's, mulit-band (rare in the USA), a million switches and knobs. Most of these are built like a tank and very heavy, especially with all the batteries. This one is so rare it's not on the www.wikiboombox.com (yet), hopefully Reli hits you up for some photos of this beauty. Do you know the country of manufacturing? Does it have AUX in, I guess you could go through the MIC. On some of these you have to do it by hitting RECORD while holding the Record-Enable Switch.
I have a box that looks the same. It is branded Goldstar TSR-540. I've also seen it as Sound 4004 I think.
Oh yea, deech posted one in the old forum! They were probably all built by Gold Star. https://www.stereo2go.com/topic/ind...6398432021335080&board_oid=193392314111653326
Thanks for all this; mine says made in Korea; Goldstar is now LG - Korean. All makes sense. Thanks for your interest guys - Have some other Bush models from 1974 & 1980 - I will post details when I return from a trip next week.
