Wonder how people are enjoying music through their boomboxes....

Here is my set up and it works really well for me. Basically I have an Airport Express  ( i think it is like $99) and I connect the output to the Line In on the particular box I am listening to. All my music is on the computer (iTunes) and any song played on the iTunes plays on the boombox. Sounds better than any computer speakers. The iTunes on the computer itself can also be fully controlled remotely with an ipod touch or iphone using the free Remote app. 

Because the connection from computer to Boombox, and my ipod touch to the Itunes is all wireless, any song that I think of can be played from wherever I am in the house by the simply selecting the song on the ipod touch. Changing songs and playlists is a breeze. Plus the computer itself can be far away or in a different room from the boxes, and it all works very smoothly!

I am sure members here have interesting set ups and would be great to find out other new ideas!

nice topic

i run a studio tape deck with a aux in/out put to my m90 by diong this i control the power flow from each unit

my boombox has the powerful amp so i find the dynamics or better this way

ect... the tape deck has a UV meter and i adjust it to get a nice full range... meaning if i have my sirius sat radio streaming though labtop its at 70% vol and so is the labtop then i adjust the power output on the studio tape deck ! it works well !

for anyone intressed i find sirius radio much much better them FM Band for one it is a more stable sound and also alot clearer with no advertisements

Nice and simple for me...just plug my iphone in using line in and use full subscription Spotify so can stream more or less anything on demand  Or use my 80gb ipod that has about 14000 music tracks on it!

I like the Airport Express method though, I did look into this before because it seemed a really neat solution but didn't follow it through for some reason...probably just because the iphone/ipod is so easy.

i use the same set up simon,

i think spotify is good but sometimes frustrating,

like when you enter `led zeppelin`..and you get `ted zepelin` a tribute act from scunthorpe..its a shame not all artists are on it.
that airport express set up sounds good im gonna look into those.

 nice rig vincent-

for me --its the same oldschool style from back 35 years 

just use a good sounding box with a clean fm tuner -

and the moment i hear a song i like --

hit that record key

Well, since acquiring an old box from my past I haven't had the opportunity to enjoy it as much as I remember I used to. It's a Blockbuster. The FM stereo needs a once over and the tape doesn't play...but I have messed around with the inputs to see what it will do with more modern playback devices.

From a smartphone/iPod the 3.5 to RCA stereo cable seems to be the simplest way to get sound pumping without alot of setup. Hit the aux button and start jamming.

I have a Big Jambox - it's a wireless bluetooth loud speaker system - that is so amazingly simple that I wish that the blockbuster could do the same, sans speaker phone because who needs to take phone calls while rocking to there favorite tunes? 

Anyway, a simple bluetooth receiver would eliminate the need for the cable. It could be mounted inside or outside of the boombox.  I've also seen some modifications done to small wi-fi routers that could turn it into a Internet radio. Combine that with the BT capability and maybe a cellular phone hotspot it would truly be able portable stereo sound system that could keep up with the Joneses.

Now, I would ideally like to have the time to integrated a android based device into the blockbuster...kinda of mesh the touch screen into the location of the cassette deck door.  See, without the need for a battery which makes up the bulk of a phones thickness, I could make the phone the cassette door cover.

There's a tombstone script if I ever heard one.

Sir, you are my hero

thanks cris-

its always cool to be admired for making no progress 

ha ha i fall into the Redbenjoe category, seem as though the decks are dead on my only 2 boxes i have great fm reception on my d8614 for great stereo sound

now and again i run my phone through line in as i have a few hundred tracks i downloaded from youtube, although track quality varies on most songs so i am forever adjusting the bass and treble controls.

i don't have much cash so ipods ect are a no go, it is nice to mix the analogue with the digital age though i suppose

Tape all the way for me with my boombox....if your gunna pig around with wires etc....i feel you may as-well use a proper stack system....so im like redbenjoe and others retro all the way

Don't have all this stuff yet, but if I had an Aiwa CS-880 with a Technics SL-1200 turntable, a Sony Discman D-350, a Sony MD walkman MZ-E10, and my crappy but useful iPod, I'd be set for life as far as audio is concerned. On the go, I'd just use the basic tape/radio combination that's worked for decades, but at home, I could hook up all that cool stuff.

for me is boombox all the way, i hook up my laptop thrue line in  and i am set.