Hi there, maybe somebody knows the genealogy of the modest-looking, yet surprisingly loud (for its size) Clever RCS-7020.

I haven't been able to track down neither the year of production nor the brand mark. Perhaps the latter is connected with Clever Italia s.r.l., a distributor of electronic components, since the small plate with the technical data located at the back of the box is in Italian. The boombox, however, is manufactured under Daewoo license.

I have found out that there exists a Daytron RCS-7020. One was auctioned on ebay on July 7, 2011, but unfortunately no image is available on the page that provides the information:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Daytro...LASTER-/300573023841

Daytron is (or was, according to Radiomuseum) a division of Daewoo. So the odds are that the two boomboxes are actually one and the same, both with a Korean pedigree. But if this be the case, is there any such thing as a Daewoo RCS-7020?

Here is a picture of the Clever:

Nice Box Sanyovar !

Clever what a name for an obscure brand.

Never seen this one or an aka before

actually PIONEER showed me one, and no less obscure. check out this:

index.php?board_oid=193392314111653483&content_oid=302049127917592395

I've just found a suprising aka with a pedigree. This was PIONEER's Magnasonic...

And here's the unexpected alias (on ebay.de right now):

Grundig PC-5022

found another aka while browsing old threads. i know that not everybody is dying for this impressive piece of info, but the "nice Electown" (no model number provided, unfortunately)...

...was posted by member GuSG on Sept 22, 2009, here:

http://REPLACEMENT ERROR/topic...3#193392314111836323

I thiunk I have an AKA of this Sal. I believe it's called Realistic over here...not sure though.

I have it in storage but I'll grab a pic ASAP

i'm surprised to find out that there are so many akas of this obscure box. Realistic is a well known brand, and Grundig... well it's Grundig! and then we have the Daewoo connection... serious historians of technology will have a hard time to unravel the routes of boombox models and brands, should they ever start to seriously investigate this neglected area of material history.

samovar posted:

I have found out that there exists a Daytron RCS-7020.

It took about three years but I was finally able to locate the elusive Daytron:

(it's on ebay.com right now but for some reason I am unable to post the link)

I just realized I never followed up on my promise of my aka pics Sal...

Give me until Monday to dig it out of the basement and I'll snap a few pics

Love these obscure gems! Many are half decent stereo's

Found it! Sitting way in the back and needing a severe cleaning I took it outside for a few pics. 

It's a Magnasonic over here.

It's going to need a god cleaning and some Deoxit for sure. 

Thanks for sharing Brutus! Incidentally I am surprised to see that this box has akas ranging from famous brands (Grundig, Realistic) to obscure ones (Clever, Electown, Magnasonic, Daytron). Yours is a Magnasonic like PIONEEER's, which together with the Daytron is, so far, the most common version (two documented specimens each)  

Brutus442 posted:

12/4/13      

I have it in storage but I'll grab a pic ASAP

12/12/15     

Found it! Sitting way in the back and needing a severe cleaning I took it outside for a few pics. 

It was quick   

metad posted:

Brutus442 posted:

12/4/13      

I have it in storage but I'll grab a pic ASAP

12/12/15     

Found it! Sitting way in the back and needing a severe cleaning I took it outside for a few pics. 

 

It was quick   

Still faster than when I offer to help my mother in law