No, it is NOT! For the simple reason that it does not accept batteries. Not portable - not a true boombox. It is Heavy and Huge! Here is the Beast packed for shipping back to Japan: ( original packaging consisting of soft cardboard box and a few crumpled Japanese newspapers is being used as well ) And this is how, as of today (June 1, 2019) I lost my membership at Buyee-Japan club Being kicked out of F***book (twice!) and now out of "Buyee"... my Boss must be right, I am Bad! On the bright side, I managed to learn something useful for our community. WIKIBOOMBOX says: The speaker panel looks like wood, but it might be fake.....we don't know. Now we know, it is wood (medium-to-soft MDF, to be exact): sealed box (acoustic suspension) for the woofer - if this is not a hi-end boomboxery then what is??? I miss him already
Yes! thats what usually happens when you just throw something fragile into a cardboard box for trans-Pacific shipping!!! Paying over $200 for EMS shipping does not help, b-box still gets damaged beyond repair. Maybe there was a message for me in those Japanese newspapers, but being illiterate in Japanese they lost me. PayPal was kind enough to refund me, but $160 for shipping back to Japan was on me. That was The Boombox to end my boomboxery obsession... now obsession shall continue!...
Wow, I've always wanted to hear that model. Such a shame it got broken. It must be really heavy. 25-30 lbs I'm guessing? Why were you kicked off of Buyee? Can I add your photos to Wikiboombox?
Absolutely! I will be honored!!! I have a few more photos, but since I was going to return it for refund I did not go any further than just opening the back panel. Cassette mech was dead (crumbled belt myguess) but everything else worked just fine. Japanese FM did not overlap with what we have here in Malibu (and I was too pissed off to check Line-in) but AM sounded tight and unbelievably LOUD even at 30% volume. Buyee-Japan had warned me that if I try to get refund through PayPal they will cancel my membership. I forwarded this message to PayPal and it was the final straw, I won the case. Very sad, really. Buyee had always repackaged boxes before sending them to me. Look how safely they packed National RQ-568 (my most recent restoration):
My memory my be at fault, but am I right in thinking that it uses the same mechanism as the National RX-7000?
That stinks Jorge, I'm surprised about the packaging, the Japanese really make packaging an artform. Most of the time the boxes look like presents and the tape is perfectly square. The last little portable I recieved from over there had a nice note and a package of tea to enjoy. For the big stuff I like to use the clam shell suit cases, you can get the cheap ones now that might last for a few trips before the corners crack. The box is awesome! I have a few that aren't true boomboxes but there's only about three people that would know or care. I bet that was part of a system with the cool looking vertical turntable. How do the radio presets work, is there a motor for tuning when you hit the buttons?
Soo True!!! I just could not believe my eyes when I received it All my previous packages from Buyee and also all those "promo boxes" with Japanese mini-LP CDs were packed in the boxes I see only when getting chemicals from Sigma-Aldrich, even Japanese packing tape screams Quality! Tuning was all manual (or so I believe: I was too upset and stressed out to play with this baby) and I did not try any presets. Unlike by beloved Sencor S-4800, preset knobs were hidden behind the cover, nice touch!... I agree with @stuck-in-time, this one was marketed for the RX-7000/7200 crowd. And its cassette mech, although single-motor, looked more solid than what I have now as my main cassette deck (Yamaha KX-330). Have no idea what it was though, and since I did not strip it down, those photos above are the only ones I have
