I've done this before, but it looks like that post is long gone.

After getting interested in portable music with various cassette recorders & mono radio cassettes, one summer evening in the mid 80s, a couple of lads walking toward me had a stereo boombox blasting. It sounded so clear, I was instantly smitten.

As soon as funds allowed I bought my first stereo boombox a 3wpc Philips D8132 for £50 from BHS of all places. Man I loved it, especially as it only needed 4 D-cells (which I already had in my pushbike lights). 
I wangled an upgrade to the more impressive looking D8134 with it's 5wpc (wooh) & a headphone socket for nighttime listening to Mike Allen on Capital Radio (I've still got loads of tapes I made of those shows).

As time wore on, my friends were getting bigger & better boomboxes... Philips D8438, Sharp GF450, Sharp QT37, etc. Nothing very expensive, but none of us were exactly rich. I needed an upgrade & countless hours fiddling with boomboxes in Dixons, Laskeys, etc. told me that the Hitachi with the 3D Super Woofer (the 3D7) gave me alot of boom for my money (big & loud Aiwas, JVCs, Pioneers etc. were all way too much). 
By the time I'd save up enough, it was discontinued, so I chose it's replacement, the 3D8. I went into Boots, and they accidentally pulled an old 3D7 from stock. It was a discontinued model so they threw in a discount. I was over the moon!
At last I had the loudest boombox around. It actually had some bass & the batteries lasted for ages. I know at least two other people that sought out old stock of the exact same boombox having heard mine.

All of this happened 1984-87 while riding the roller-coaster that was adolescence, with the clothes, the girls, the parties, the alcohol, the music... aah, wonderful memories, and boomboxes are intertwined with so many of them. 

The boombox was a part of the culture back then, as was the walkman too. I wonder if my kids will remember their iPods with such affection?