Hey,

I bought a better camera last week and started to take pictures of my ghettoblasters. First one is my latest addition: the legendary Lasonic TRC-931.

Its so much fun to have a good camera and play with different light setups! Perfect amusement for this cold winter weekends.





More to come the next weeks.

The Lasonic TRC-931 is a beautiful boombox, and the quality of the pictures is superb. Great pics, thanks for taking them and sharing with us!!

Very good quality photos! What do you use for background and lighting?

great picture quality indeed!

Thank you guys!

For the background I used two front panels from ikea kittchen programm. Both are 60cm x 90 cm: the one in the back is matte black "APPLÅD" and the radio ist standing on a high reflective black one "ABSTRAKT".

These panels are great but they could be bigger for the big boomers.

For lighting I used a hack because I cant afford professional studio lights at the moment. I took two 500W halogen lamps on a tripod from the hardware store and build softboxes from a wooden frame and backing paper. You can find tutorials on youtube like this (in german)

I can take a picture from my setup when I do my next session.

Screw professional studio stuff, this is awesome! I never had the energy to build softboxes, i only have used an office fluorescent tube light (2x58W) with daylight tubes and a white styrofoam board for reflector. And a blanket for background. I will have to try your technique some day, DrmZ!

Here we go again. More pictures from my collection. Starting with my Crown Boomboxes.

CSC-850L


CSC-950L


CSC-980L


CSC-350L

And some more.

Sony CFS-F5S


Toshiba RT-SF5


National Panasonic RX-F80

Them pictures are awsome drmz............what camera do you use and have you tweaked the pics in photopaint

I use a Nikon D80 with a Tamron 2.8/28-70 macro lense. I bought it on ebay 2 weeks ago. Great camera!
I took the images in RAW format and did the whitebalance and some color correction in Photoshop. Beside that I just removed dust frome the black shiny plate and cropped some of the background if necessary.

That's some brilliant photography! I'm impressed! Those pictures would be more than good enough to be used as official advertisements for the various models.

Wow, maybe i should go Ikea.shopping also .

Holy mother of jesus these are good!!! Especially the Crown CSC-950L, man oh man it is bee-au-tee-ful! Went once again to Ikea yesterday, they have really cheap chip boards in the "outlet corner". If youre lucky you can find suitable boards for a couple of euros. For example a 40x200cm tabletop glossy black only 3 euros! Took one home.

Great taste in boxes!

Here are some more.

Sharp GF-9000
Good looking but not the best sound quality. Oh, if anybody got a nice rewind button, please contact me.


JVC RC-M70L
Everybodys darling. Not in the best shape with lots of scratches but it works and I love it!


Eversonic SH-550
I love the design - it´s close to the M70 but more chrome. I would love to see that tweeter grills and grid texture on an M70. Sound is okay.


Stereo Sonic KC-2400L
Almost the same like the Eversonic but no alarm system.


ISP STR-850
Looks very oldschool with analog meters. The sound is not brilliant but not bad and loud enough. It came with me to a reggae festival last year and was running for lots of hours with one set of batteries. A good every-day-boomer!

These pics are incredible!! That ISP box is new to me, I've never seen one before, and the AKA version of the 'bolt box' (Eversonic) with normal woofer grilles is very nice looking.

awesome!im speechless!
drmZ your collection is buzzin'!

great pics again! Was it Summerjam fest?I am Splash festival "veteran", last one was my 7th,i guess:]. We had there Aiwa TPR 950A, one set of Duracel batteries was enough even for half of other festival, when we came back to Lithuania:]. Now i have rechargable ones, we'll see how good they are.

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Originally posted by Brigadier Vytas:
great pics again! Was it Summerjam fest?I am Splash festival "veteran", last one was my 7th,i guess:]. We had there Aiwa TPR 950A, one set of Duracel batteries was enough even for half of other festival, when we came back to Lithuania:]. Now i have rechargable ones, we'll see how good they are.

I was at Reggaejam Bersenbrück the last two years. Its a little smaller than Summerjam and more veteran artist less dancehall. The atmosphere there is great and you can camp next to your car which is much win.
I was at splash festival two times around 2000. It was good, too but unfortunetly the atmosphere on hip hop jams became more agressive over the years. That was one reason I went to more reggae partys and less hip hop partys. I still love both styles.

About the batteries I couldnt believe it. I mean we heared a lot of mixtapes during the 3 days. I brought replacement batteries and I was very suprised that we didnt need them.

About agression, it's the same with people. This year there was just too many agressive people in the camp, lot's of thieves. Couple of years ago there was big fight between visitors and local police forces, right after the incident, when some idiots burned down the whole dancehall tent, big like circus. And to burn your own tent before leaving the territory became fashion :/. We are helping security guys with all that crazy crap. Also, we're giving them some warm clothes, some coffee, at the night time inviting them to warm up at our grill place, and they can't understand that:]. Maybe i'll change that fest. to, but we're comming with pretty big group all the time (~50 persons), so we are kinda safe, and there's still lot's of fun. During the last fest i've seen my favourite reggae band House Of Riddim from Austria at last:]

again very nice boxes and very nice pics! Really love that reel to reel tape too!

I think I'm in love with your GF-9000!
eric

Great Quality photo's and very nice boombox's CSC-350L My fav!

Great collection there and your photography is second to none...best I've seen on any site

You have great taste in boxes. Just curious, why is there such a big space between the woofers on the Sony F5? Is there anything inside that actually needs the space?

I think its just a design thing. Nothing between the woofers but the microphon controls and remote connector. I guess the size of the unit is defined by the size of the board and they placed the speakers at the corners for best stereo experience.

Well at least it looks cool. A very industrial looking piece. How does it sound compared to the others?

Completely killer photos!

That ISR is so cool!

Nice collection and photography drmz...i had the super sonic one but under the name of International....