I haven't found any advertising but this might be from 1968, the Longines Symphonic RCR-100, it's definately one of the first boombox looking portables. https://www.ebay.com/itm/285446479997
I think Longines Symphonette was a USA Product Distributor. I've seen lot's of their stuff over the years, mostly from Hong Kong or Japan, desktop clocks, some audio equipment and even vinyl records. Kind of like Audiologix and a few other companies that private labeled equipment. Some of it is interesting but the name always seemed like a discount store product to me.
My father worked for Phillips in Holland and I can still remember the first tape deck that they made, as we had one at home. Unfortunately with time no one in the family remembers what happened to it. It still was used up till 2010. This is my girl with all original paper work(factory manuals)and still playing well(I replaced the belt last year) Sony CF-550 Cheers Kiwinut
I have the original manual that came with this unit, and it is in brand new condition, always been in a plastic cover
I'm not 100% sure on this one, the website dates it at 1969 https://www.radiomuseum-bocket.de/wiki/index.php/Blaupunkt_Marimba_CR_7659550 Archive.org has the service manual and it has English so the unit did get around. https://www.radiomuseum-bocket.de/w...aupunkt-service-7659550/mode/2up?view=theater From the Blaupunkt Ad Thread
I have this Philips 22RL962. Fully working, playing cassettes, recording, everything. A very warm and vintage sounding box. The sound is very close to old tube radio’s. Its loud too. Even the recordings sound great when played back on the same box. Don’t know if this is still the "first boombox" nowadays, build in 1966. I recall a discussion I had on stereo2go in 2014 with Metad and others about this being the first boombox. Around the same time I was leeching Japanese forums and enjoyed the panic that Phillips, and not Panasonic, at that time seems to be the inventor of the boombox
Thanks for posting! I'm going to go out on a limb but that might the best looking, maybe for a few years until the cooler 1972 models really started rolling out.
This magazine is dated 1970-1971 but it used to take several months to put it together so this might be units from 1969. Bollettino Tecnico Geleso n. 114
1966 ad for the elizabethan, I'm pretty sure this is compact cassette since they fit in your top pocket. While this doesn't have a radio it does have phono and radio inputs and a 10" freakin speaker!
