And here is what we call the radio room as it is without moving stuff around 31 August. 2025. Yes this is a wide-angle shot with my phone as I'm stepped into the bathroom so you can see the entire room in one picture again. 31 August 2025. I just unboxed that national RXF 20 and Panasonic rx-fw38 which I didn't want but came with the f20 and I uploaded the video to my YouTube account. Decent man for you. Well I didn't spell it right but that's me
Looking good, lot's of special boomers in there. Yea the 2012 forum was kind of the wild west with somewhat nice knowledgeable members, with a ton of stuff, not properly representing equipment, keeping repairs for a long time or even shipping damage and refusal to take back. AudioKarma has seen similar issues, sometimes it's much worse with a high-dollar receiver sent off to a known repairman who gets sick and closes shop with thousands of dollars in customer equipment. The family has no idea what to do, shipping alone is off the charts. I am surprised we don't see more equipment on display, one of these days I'll head down to our local Pavek (TV and radio museum) and see if they want to do a temporary display of some of my stuff.
Fifteen years ago I used to see similar pictures of GF777s on eBay. I think it was two or three Chinese sellers who realised the value outside of China. Each unit would also get some photos taken outside in the grounds of a modern apartment complex. Back to this photo, notice the unit half way down on the left missing speaker grills and cassette doors.My suspicions are: These 15 might have started out as twenty or more used ones bought cheap. Repairs are easier when you concentrate on the same model and have a number of parts boxes. The 52W sales stickers are almost certainly reproductions. You used to be able to buy similar ones for the GF777. p.s. I just spotted the two GF777s on the shelf at the right. Probably one of the same sellers. I also wonder how old the photo is. It might date back to the time (noughties) I was saying about. p.p.s On the first picture I see a CRT TV in the background. You used to be able to pick those up every week for £10. Back then I bought a colleague a working 20" Sony Trinitron as a joke. Today you just have to say the magic words "Retro Gaming" and a working CRT is worth more than a brand new LCD of the same size.
Yes, probably it's an old photo. I have some memories of this one or similar back in the past but might be another pictures.
Must be old click bait, I don't know anything about TaoBao but it's fun to look through it for the oddball models.
I think those are old photos too. I remember years ago you often saw the same kind of photos from Chinese sellers. And also the photos of the 777s that ultimately arrived completely damaged. The question then was where all those Sharps came from. Whether they were locally produced. I don't know if that was ever answered.
It wasn't difficult to find one Nobody ever came up with a definite answer although some were made in China. I have always wondered if they were standard issue to schools or something similar. In the U.K. there was an audio manufacturer Coomber who survived for decades selling most of their output to schools https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335927984211 To my knowledge these were never sold in shops, but get it in a schools supply catalogue and you have a potential customer base of 32000. China has 518500 schools so if just 1% got a GF777 that is over 5000 of them. Finally, the only time I have heard a JVC Kaboom in action (back about 15 years ago) it was sat on a stage in a school. I expect now they would be using some high power Bluetooth speaker, although far more places seem to have permanently installed sound systems now. The local village hall has some ancient looking speakers from this company up on their walls. https://hkaudio.com/about-us/
I thought I posted something about the Chinese thinking that the GF777 was the ultimate audio system for them. Retail Stores in the USA went full in on tiny Bose Speakers in the 90's through the late 2010's, kind of the same thing. I bet they really cherished the boomers knowing they were very expensive and didn't let the kids get their fingers all over them. I used to see lots of stereos around here where the owner would carefully cover the units when not in use.
Yes, it was the same attitude here, those boomers were quite expensive back then, very, especially top models.
This reminds me of something. There was once a photo of nine Sanyo M9994s lined up on school desks or something. In three rows of three. I found that photo so inspiring that I started hoarding these radios too. Only, I forgot to save the photo and can't find it anymore. Does anyone still have it somewhere?
This was big right when the forum updated in 2016, I don't think it was ever sold, anybody know this guy? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sale-400-awesome-vintage-boomboxes-180959961/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainme...oombox-collections-goes-to-auction-in-Dunedin
