I haven't posted in ages, but this Shogun has motivated me to do so. I can't find anything about it with a google search, and very little info is posted here. Does anyone know anything about this box? I just picked it up at a thrift store, and spent a couple hours cleaning it. It works, it's loud, but it is missing the record button (you should be able to see the black hole where it should be). I like the fact that the RCA input on it has a switch for line or phono. Any more info is appreciated.

i think this is also a prosonic 9962. and a goldstar and some other AKAs -- and you are lucky to have found one of the real big sounding one-piece boxes

My cat highly recommends this box. Great sound and features. If you found yours at a thrift store, you really beat the system! Congratulate yourself. You did good!!

nice VUs....could be conion related...cause the c126F was made under the name shogun once...

Came as a Unitech CX-1430, too.



Manufacturer, like RBJ said, is Goldstar (LG) in Korea

Also sold as Prosonic PQR-9962,Goldstar TSR800,801,Unitech CX-1430.I believe the Shogun version is pretty rare by comparison.Mine is the Prosonic version.It's highly sought after if only for its looks and it IS a seriously good looking box!I could stare at mine for days without getting tired!Despite the liberal use of plastic,it is quite heavy.Maybe those 8" woofers have large magnets.

I've read others reviews here praising its sound.I'm not so sure I like the sound of mine,though.It's nice and bassy but lacks mids/highs to my ears.The treble pot only seems to change things near the max. setting where it will give the extreme highs some ring or sizzle.However,I really wish this box had an equalizer to bump up the mids a bit.That is my main criticism.Also you have to go up past halfway to get decent volume out of it.However it can get really loud if you push it.

I've never found a box this nice in the wild !Congrats!

Wow, you guys are awesome. Thanks for the great information. So Goldstar made these boxes, and they sometimes were re-branded as Prosonics, Unitechs, or Shoguns. I'm familiar with this happening with other boomboxes as well, but does anyone know why? Wait, let me attempt to answer my own question. Did Prosonic, Unitech, and Shogun want to have a big box of their own to sell in the hot boombox market of the 80s, but not have the time or money to make their own? So then they made a deal with Goldstar to purchase and then re-brand boxes. Or maybe I'm completely off. Maybe they were all owned by the same company and were just re-branded for regional marketing plans or something. I'm done trying to answer that. Here's another photo, and thanks again.

One of the board's moderators, Jens, can probably answer your questions about who or what all these small companies were (Prosonic, Unitech, Helix, etc.) and how they ended up slapping their name on boomboxes made by major manufacturers.

I'm not sure these were actual "companies." Some I know were just store brands. Others may have been independent distributors (guys with warehouses and a small office somewhere) who contracted with retailers to supply them with electronics. So they made deals with electronics manufacturers to put their name on some items, had them shipped over, and then sent them out to retailers. However the system worked, I think it's a fascinating question, and it's one I've wondered about myself now and then.

Prosonic was a Canadian label (maybe just a store brand or an independent distributor). Its version of the Goldstar TSR-800 came with two SW bands, along with AM & FM. Here's a (slightly) clearer picture of the 9962:

it is a goldstar box but with rebadging not a bad box i have the goldstar version