I've been after this one for quite a while...
28 quid from eBay, fully working, cosmetically fine & clean too!

In the late 80s, before cut-price (& lower quality) eggs took over, some top-end boomers were black, mean, angular & still serious about sound. CD had come along too.
This is one of the very first Hyper-Bass Sound models from JVC. It's a 3pc & has a woofer buried inside the main unit firing out of a port at the lower front (there's quite a breeze when it's cranked up). It was an expensive model with great build (when all around were cutting quality & price) & great features too:
CD player of course but they hadn't scrimped on the tape deck: servo, Dolby, Auto-reverse, Metal. Also there's a 5 band EQ, 4 band tuner with fine tune on SW, proper aux-in & out, mic in, a cool "warp-drive" volume control (very 80s) & that wonderful Hyper-Bass which gives those rich, deep lows. Thankfully the mids & treble sound great from this boomer too. I'd compare it to one of the cobra-top Pannys for sound quality - high praise indeed.

I own top-end JVCs from the classic era (M90) & today (Kaboom), & now I have the missing link, the JVC PC-V2:
My mate Steve bought one of these from Dixons with a store card (hmm, I thought you had to be 18 to get credit - he certainly wasn't!). You had to be so careful playing the CD when walking along or it would skip. I remember being in the park one summer evening (probably 1987) listening to Black's new CD "Wonderful Life" (not exactly breakdancing stuff, but we were older by then), & being amazed at the clarity of the treble & vocal & the depth of the bass from a portable just sat there on the grass. For sound quality, It knocked my Hitachi 3D7 for six.
Shortly after that we all got into HiFi & learning to drive & boomboxes faded from our desires. We'd had a boombox of some sort with us in our group since 1983. This JVC was our groups last hurrah.

I found one of those
models beside a dumpster.

Heres mine while it had its original dirt on it still.

Reminds me my VICTOR with "G-Horn".
I like those underdogs.
Nice unit!

nice looking box with a slight hard look to it
kinda looks a bit like the sharp here (owner will sell other three but not te sharp to me )

The V2 has a rich, warm sound. The later, early 90's models have the same sound quality (PC-X100/200/300). I bought one of these as a floor model in 1989, for $200 and that was about $150 less than the normal price for this.

You are right, it is very comparable to the Panasonic models, but only to a certain volume. You can crank the "Panny's" right on up, but the bass driver on the JVC's will distort at a point. Still, an excellent overall sound. Most of the PC-V models without CD sound very good as well, and go for peanuts on Ebay.

yes, that's true, the cobra top Panasonics will have considerably more volume than the Hyper-Bass JVCs.
Have a guess what's next on my wish list