Hello again,

I am thinking of buying a Panasonic egg (you know the type, the ones with the cd on top). I can choose between lots of models which all kinda look the same at first glance.

Then I have noticed that some models have 2 speakers+ 1 bass reflex hole while some others have 1 speaker+ 1 bass reflex hole.

Since they are pretty easy to find, I am thinking of going for the best of the Panny eggs.

Now the question is...which model number is it?  RX DS45? RX-DS101? RX DT 55?

Please help, i-m kinda confused

You can still get a CD player but on a more traditional squarish boomer .  Look at the RX-DS650 really high quality sound excellent mid and high / vocals but not a loud player even though its rated at 30 watts.  Also RX-DS750 think is a 5 disc auto changer top loader.  RX-DT series but have to be careful as most only have 4 1/4 in woofers.   the RX-DS650 has 6 1/4 woofers in it.  It has a single bass port that exits the around the tweeter area so no extra hole on front of speaker which i like. 

   Am just getting started with boomers so dont know a lot bout them.

My Panasonic RX-DS650 just received yesterday.  Its from 1989 I believe.

as actual eggs go the panna dt707 is the best....that 3 piece mentioned by J Edward is great but not an egg

I already have a a minty RX CT990 (with remote) and a RX CT900.

Seems that the DS650 is just a CT900 with CD.

What I wanted is indeed the egg shaped one, and the DT707 seems like the nicest on that series, so I will be hunting for one.

By the way, i-m a little disappointed in the 990, It looked to be so much more than the 900 and it just is not up to the  expectations sound-wise.

it's actually better than the 900 imho..the (990)...the main thing to do is set the 100 hz slider to half way....then the xbs will kick in....

the rxdt75 is the next best egg inline with it's beautiful decks but lacks the surround feature of the dt707....there is also a 909 but this is only available in japan

radio raheem is correct, the 909 has a eq spectrum looks amazing if you ask me,

but between the  originals 707 and the rx-dt 75, go for the 707 because the 75 tends to get roten sorrounds and you know the deal with that.

Nice trick, the one with the 100 hz slider half way down. I had mine set up to max since when I bought it and never bothered to look for other setups. Sound seems to come around more nicely this way.

Never hear one 707 in person, but I HAVE an 909 in my shelves and I only can said it´s sound´s AMAZING!!!

The 707 are "relativity easy" to find here in Brazil, the 909 not many...

Cheers.

eggs are for omelets!!!

Yeah...   ...but in some particular cases, are for FRYING much of classic square boxes!!! 

Cheers.

Dt707 sounds better than most old school boxes....try the dp200 kaboom...

makes all old school boxes sound redundant and eats the dt707 for lunch...

but you cant beat the feeling of a true 80's classic

i agree here some of them eggs sound mean but they don't come close to the classic 80s boxes in looks.

EGGSactly 

eggscuse me

eggsellent 

do you know what all the kings horses and all the kings men said about humpty dumpty when he fell off the wall.... f**k him he's only an egg

i remember big pannys like these blasting out of four man rooms in my block in the army,taking on shelf systems in other rooms,i had a jvc micro system at the time and it got wasted

humpty dumpty [...] he's only an egg

the egg's dream, to be a box

LoL...    ...kkkkkkkkkkk

Originally Posted by Lav Loo:

humpty dumpty [...] he's only an egg

 

the egg's dream, to be a box

ha ha that's class Samovar

personally i hate cd's-they skip,they jump,and frankly arent made for a portable device such as a boombox-the slightest jault and were off!ive had a few cd boxes in my time,first time around when i was a teenager in the 1990s,ive also had the dt75 and the one you have got in the pic-i agree they do have good sound-the dt75 and your model,but if its a cd player then its a no no for me nowadays full stop.....ill take my music on c90 thank you very much

Hi,

How would you rate the sound quality of some good boomboxes like the DS650, CT900 or a DT707 and a good HIFI?

I mean: if a good HIFI (from a good brand like Denon, Onkyo, Marantz, etc...) sounds like 9/10, will those boomboxes score like 6/10?

And the famous M90?

a.  JVC RC-M90 Cassette radio Box No/cd  Stiffer cone - require's more volume to sound appreciable, so if you like to listen to your music LOUD then this is the One.

b.  Panasonic RX-DT707 radio cd cassette Egg/shape Smaller unit need more volume to overcome it's smaller woofer's to have a bigger sound.  Drawback as to it's shape it that it require's more area to sit on a deeper shelf or more room on a table as it is flattened as box's goes - take's up too much room for placement.

Prefer the individual boxed speaker's of Three piece units below versus the above speakers in one box configuration for better sound, However the below units have fairly inexpensive speaker in their cabinets so it is a toss-up for which sound better as each 'idea' has their own approach toward's their reproduction of sound

c.  Panasonic RX-DS650 radio cd cassette 3-piece Sounds nice at lower volume's run's out of power at higher levels, eq is a help.

d.  Panasonic RX-CT900 radio cassette only 3-piece No/cd Sounds nice at lower volume's run's out of power at higher levels, eq is a help

Both c. & d. sound similar just have different feature's primarily difference is the 'cd' or not.  If you need cd capability then the 650 an if not then the 900.

These are All good just different shape's and configuration's, Hard to compare these against One-another.

Tough question. In general boomboxes don't sound that good, they're just cool. So maybe the average boombox woud sound 4/10 according to your rating system.

I have heard a few HiFi boomboxes --labelled as such and actually sounding as such: Telefunken HiFi Studio 1M and HiFi Studio 800, Grundig Party Center 1000 and 2000 (3-pieces), Crown CSC 980 and CSC 850L (1-piece). All of these are outstanding, especially the three pieces, and in another class of even the best non-HiFi boomboxes such as, for instance, the Aiwa TPR 950K; one that maybe you could rate 6/10.

But I have never heard a DS650, CT900 or a DT707. Shame on me, I haven't heard a JVC-M90 --and, given current prices, I may never hear one. I don't know if it qualifies as HiFi, & probably I do not even know what I am talking about. So I'd better suspend judgment on the whole rating system and end this post...

I think, you have to put them into their own category. I haven`t heard a boombox, that matches a good hi-fi. You have to listen to boomboxes, for what they are, and, pick your own favourite. While i`m typing this, i have a tape playing, on one of my tpr990`s. It sounds good on the aiwa, but, on the hi-fi, you expect more.

Aha, so that's basically the same that I think: they usually score about 4-5/10 and very few units can score higher, but only upt to 6/10 more or less.

I don't care so much about volume, as I normally don't need them to be loud; I focus on audio quality, no matter they are very loud or not. However, I suspect that boomboxes that have less than 8W DIN each speaker have not enough power to offer decent quality, specially on deep bass.

Also, all those old boomboxes that doesn't have an acoustic resonance box in each speaker may have poor performance, and very often both speakers share place with the electronics. Even worse: they have ventilation grills backside, leaving the lower bass escaping from this place.

Am I wrong?

yes this one here is the baddest of the COBRA SERIES, this is the one to get.

Being a newbee to Boomer collecting and the few models I have my first impression is that one should put Boomboxes in its own catagory with sound that can on some models approach a smaller home high fidelity system.  Which in itself is a accomplishment.   I have noticed and read a topic earlier on difference in performance from battery power vs. AC mains.  The mains produces on most models especially higher powered larger models noticable volume and sound quality improvement.  I would say from models I have that high and mid tones/vocals on some boomers certainly can reach a quality level/ 6-7 out of 10 but not at loud volume.   Bass is by far the lacking entity for me.  Often with speakers inside of main box and volume available to enclose so limited the bass suffers greatly.  We all know the importance of speaker box design/ materials, sound material, ports on especially bass.   And bass simply eats up gobs of power which even the largest boomers just dont produce in clean rms quantities.  

   That being said they are a wonderful nostalgic novelty and one that for me I often use.  Outside working on my car or yard, laying by pool or going to beach they are wonderful.  Course at beach large loud boomers get you disliked pretty quickly ;-) so the many mini boomers I have like the Toshiba RT-SF5 my favorite of smaller boxes even has RCA in and Aux. out and great sound for its size.  And most of all most people when they see the 80's classic larger boombox they just smile .

    Of boxes I have and from what have read the Panasonic RX-DS650 is by far the closest to quality home stereo sound.  It has generally the classic 80's squarish look and long design large but not huge.  Heavy but not to bad to move around vs. say the monster JVC-DC7 I have at over 40 pounds.   The speakers produce a clean true sound even the bass is defined and noticably present and felt with use of 5 band EQ.  In addition to the 5 band EQ the DS650 has the XBS system which additionally boost levels under half volume.  I must say I am most impressed with this box sound and performance.  The one main drawback is it does not play really loud.  Make no mistake it can fill a room with excellent clean louder volume but really rocking loud or to use at pool party outside it just falls short.  Panasonic for sure with this model line focused on real quality sound at expense of blasting volume.  Not a bad trade off IMO.  And as Ira said about the CD player even though it has 4x over sampling if you carry it the cd skips.  But for me my days of shoulder carrying Booming days are past so that is not issue.  I highly recommend the DS650.  I recently met redbenjoe and we both agree this box is a gem for its quality sound.   But as this topic is about EGG boxes the DS650 is NOT an egg please EGGSCUSE me 

  Hugo you can read and see my RX-DS650 following link

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   It really boils down to what your looking for, your nostalga connection to the era and your use of the box.  I just received the AKAI PJ-W30 medium/small boomer and am totally smitten with its sound performance and especially its appearance.  Will do a topic shortly on this awesome quality box in almost mint condition.

Presented just as example of alternative egg to Panasonic.  Personally think RX series a better choice.  As for the EGGO machine I do have one that I bought new in about 2003 I think.

Sony CFD-F10 it has single center woofer with a blue lighted ring around it ported to rear, two midrange and two tweeters.  It has cassette and Cd player on top and is most certainly a pretty good sized EGG !  Sound quality is not bad at all will try to do a sound comparison to the DS650 later today.

Dimensions 20 inches x 8 inches high x 11.5 inches deep

9 pounds

4.5 watts/channel

Think it was $80 USD new

SONY CFD-F10

admittedly, there are a few nice eggs around

in most cases, however, eggs are evil!

beware! better be square!

One of my favorite boomboxes is the Panasonic DS30, which has so many interesting features, and a design that does not look exactly as an 'egg', but more as a 'small HIFI'. And looks that it can sound pretty good (5.5-6/10):

It has 22W DIN, so it's 11W each speaker. Not a huge power, but probably enough to start sounding good.

But better than this one is the superb AIWA CSD-SR6, some kind of beauty & beast that I think surpass almost any other boombox and egg ever made. With their 10.000cc resonance box and 15W DIN for each speaker it sounds simply impressive. I have one of this since 1992 and I can tell you that I never heard another boombox that sounds better than this. The list of features is also impressive too:

I really loved this boombox, and after it I could only upgrade to a HIFI (ONKYO); that's when I went from 6.5/10 to 8.5/10 more or less