Hi there please can you tell me where i stand with detachable speakers ? is it a no no !

Got this one at a carboot for £5 cos it was big and 80's looking

I know is only a phillips and speakers are a wood case !

just want to know if i will get laughed at for showing/having it

let me know ?
cheers B
(not cleaned yet)

not at all i have several like this i like it,nice grab for what u pd

Not with the burner in the background !

a PHILIPS for this price?
You can´t go wrong!
I love it.

The function LEDs are BOSS! Great find Bendycat, should clean up great.



Rock On.

If i could swear right now i would,thats a frikkin bargain for a 5 spot,i thought i got a bargain when i paid £10 for mine,got mine bout 5 years ago,carbooty..i skipped all the way home smiling..the only thing you gotta watch with the big heavy philips is the weak handle,i had an 8644 and 8734 in the late 80s and the handle snapped on both because the could`nt take the weight,my mate also had a 8644 and his handle snapped aswell..

Great find, great price!

This is the biggest Philips ever (they ever produced)! Got a lot of goodies, sounds nice - so what's wrong about it? ...

Best wishes
TOM

you might hate me then

Sharp 9494 = given for free from dump
Hitachi 8200 = £4 carboot
JVC RC 636LB = £2 dump
Sharp 7300 = £3 carboot
Hitachi 8080 = £5 carboot
Hitachi 3D80E £4 carboot

most come in covered in dirt/dust/muck but i have a built in cleaning gene and can spend hour detailing stuff

Nah No one will hate you man,if anything,they/we/i will thank you for rescuing them from the crusher..
Good prices,i think everyone wishes they can find ghettos for those prices..
Well done on the cleaning,i used to also do that,i`de wait til everyone went to bed,then i would get my stereo`s out and spend hours cleaning them..good fun and relaxing..

Nothing wrong with 3-piece units mate, only got to see grails like the Panasonic RX-C100 or Fisher 492 to reinforce that fact

I love single units but as already stated the 3 piecers can sound considerably better due to the 'proper' speaker enclosures rather than a hollow plastic shell.

I`ve got a fisher,dont know the model,its in my spare room
You dont really see that many fishers in uk..i dont know why..

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Originally posted by BENDYCAT:
you might hate me then

Sharp 9494 = given for free from dump
Hitachi 8200 = £4 carboot
JVC RC 636LB = £2 dump
Sharp 7300 = £3 carboot
Hitachi 8080 = £5 carboot
Hitachi 3D80E £4 carboot

most come in covered in dirt/dust/muck but i have a built in cleaning gene and can spend hour detailing stuff

Seriously! I agree with Ghettoman! Good for you, getting these boxes for such good prices! You should feel fortunate, not guilty!

No hate!!!!

I have found in the past that i would rather hunt a good find than rather pay for a high price on ebay (no offence to those who do - i do buy high if i really need/want) but there are a lot of ways to pick up hi-fi goods cheap - carboots and dumps - most people nowadays want small and compaqued items - where as i find beauty in the things that were designed to be shown and loved - the art in what it looks like and how it works - this for me is a 80's thing - a time of where things were made to be seen - just like my bmx's that i love - nowadays thing are so easy to make and change so fast - it seems the good time are lost or hard to find, that's why we have place's like here = kids have it too easy - if we had one boombox/ghettoblaster then we were happy - kids want to change things every month and then don't want what hey have and just throw/sell/swap so easy, when we would of used and loved that item in to the ground or until it fully broke !

so i don't mean to offened, but there is a lot of cheap items out there if you look hard enough for them - get out there and have some fun finding them !
cheers B

i'm exactly the same F--- ebay

Mee too jared,frikk ripoffbay..80% of the time,i`ve found egay to be a rippoff,just like last week when i bought my rising 007,the guy said it was mint,when i got it,deck jammed up because of old worn belts,crackly volume beyond beleif,and speaker rott..

soo...
i`ll say to you bendycat,you keep on those carboots man..keep on getting those boxes for cheap,wish i had that much luck..your doing good work for the Ghetto community by rescuing these things and giving them good homes..

With this great Phili you sure can´t go wrong, this is a GOGO BOOMBOOM .

I have one 2 and this has some great sound and power (3way speakers in a wooden cabinet ) . great tape quality 2 .

So you scored great and you have a go , a loud GO >>> example video<<<.

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! Got a lot of goodies, sounds nice - so what's wrong about it? ...

Well, if y'wanna get all nitpicky about it...the tuner's backwards! Check the closeup shot.

Bendycat, that's an excellent stash for really good prices, nice one

As for the monster Philips 3pc: excellent!

There are some purists who frown a bit on the 3pc boomboxes, but most are happy so long as they have a handle & take batteries.
3pc boomboxes often sound better due to their having dedicated speaker enclosures, & your Philips is no exception, with it's wooden speakers.
A friend of mine had this one back in the 80s & it sounded fantastic.
Here's the info from my 1984 Philips catalogue:


btw, whereabouts in Surrey are you? As you can see, I'm from Surrey too...