Can anybody tell me out of the two listed boom boxes which one of them sounds better, and also which one would u rather have, looking fwd to the replies. p.s Happy New Year when it arrives..

Aiwa cs880 v Philips d8614

All a matter of opinion and both will have strengths and weaknesses just like any box out there. The true test could only have been done with fresh out the box units which is obviously nigh on impossible these days.

ha ha love the thread Glen, i am in no way saying the 8614 is louder than the 880 but for a mid size unit it really does sound great.

it has plenty of bass excellent crisp highs and goes loud.

further more it goes really loud with not much distortion, whack the loudness on and turn up the sweet spatial stereo and you will be sweetly surprised.

on top of all the above you could bag a mint one for no more than 80 quid.

my advice is to grab one and if you disagree on the above on hearing it.....il'e take the flack off you

@ Lav loo u kill me man..  lol.. looks like ive got a good post going on here with some good advice from yourself. Lol plus it will help my activities score go up too, before u know it ill be an advanced member,  ive been a member now for onky 10 days. Ill be a pro by the end of 2013. Lol

hey no worries it's always nice when i get a chance to boast on the philips

and if i'm increasing your activities at the same time then that's a double bonus, killing 2 birds with 1 stone i think they call it

glen it's just an underated box as they look nothing like they sound....from a man of experience the phillips wins hands down....the trouble with the 880 is if you want to go high volume you got to back right off on the bass! with the d8614 you dont

I've also had both and think that the 880 has more depth but mostly down to the quality of the material of the casing which the 880 wins hands down. The Aiwa sound is just a "different" sound to the Philips and any other manufacturer in fact. The 990 sounds great and is top quality, the 880 sounds great too and is probably the best sounding Aiwa, the 770 sounds good too. Comparing these two is not like comparing the same quality of audio reproduction. With a well maintained 880, it beats the Philips, problem is there are few 880's out there that are either original or in excellent shape.

2 different opinions above and never owning an 880 i can't add unfortunately, but as Lee says the 8614 is so under rated.

i will back it all the way against any box in similar size

Hey doc, im feeling what your saying dude. Ive also heard the cs880, I loved it. I play a lot of Roots Reggae, Hip Hop, Ska, Folk music.  So yes the Aiwa would be perfect for me to listen to bass guitar and rhythm guitar too and of course Acoustic.

Maybe the one i had was just different   the 880 i had was clean more like home stereo sound where the phillips was louder

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he he love it

Imho the 880 is much better....at lower volumes much deeper bass than the phillips......if you want deeper bass just buy the kaboom (dp200) deeper bass than all of them....and the highs are good too

Aiwa CS-880, JVC RV-NB1 Kaboom, Philips D8614, ( Philips D8514  Best of the Philips Boombox's! )

Since RR included the Kaboom Here - thought i would show the KING of BASS in this collection - [ JVC ] and my preferred best of these ( Philips versus Aiwa )

The Aiwa is very Nice but lugging '1' around all day i prefer the Philips D8514 size wise

 Yes the D8514 doesn't get as loud as the other's but it sound's very nice and it is not so big & if size is No Question, as it is BASS that you are after? Then the Kaboom Wins

Just to give you a idea as to just how much you would be lugging around

thanks for that traveller......this is the dp200 best kaboom of them all with propper treble conrol

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Good morning glen....haha sure i think the kaboom is fugly but it took me years to buy an 880 too as i think there fugly too lol anything with 3 speakers instead of 4 looks strange....i mean if you get an ugly woman you just put a bag over her head....if you catch my drift hehe.....the kaboom (dp200) is worth it glen, i wouldn't trade my boxed one for an m90 as sound has always been the most important thing to me lad

 Good morning to u to Sir. Lol.. ok fair enough, point taken about the JVC kaboom (dp200)

Btw have u seen this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8Ocmk2e58, i like the beat box gimmick going on there. Are all the Kaboom built with this gimmick in it?

thank you sir......wish you had been on here a few months beforehand as i could have sold you an 880 instead of selling them both to stereomad....i sure know what it's like to want an old friend back....that for me was the akai pj33 jvc pc55 jvc dc33l and the panasonic rx c 52

I updated the previous thread i sent u, check it out while i check out all these  akai pj33 jvc pc55 jvc dc33l and the panasonic rx c 52Originally Posted by radio raheem:

Originally Posted by Glen:

 Good morning to u to Sir. Lol.. ok fair enough, point taken about the JVC kaboom (dp200)

thank you sir......wish you had been on here a few months beforehand as i could have sold you an 880 instead of selling them both to stereomad....i sure know what it's like to want an old friend back....that for me was the akai pj33 jvc pc55 jvc dc33l and the panasonic rx c 52

That my friend is the jvc dp100 nearly the same as the 2oo but the 200 has a front row of led's and maybe extra features