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10 January 2012, 09:43 PM

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Ghettoblasters/boomboxes

I quite fancy walking along the street with one of these on my shoulder

.Where can i get a decent one from.What's the best make/model.Don't want anything too expensive.I may swap my headphones for one.

SB.T.

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10 January 2012, 09:45 PM

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You'll probably Get one from the 1980's

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10 January 2012, 09:47 PM

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Dude this is 2012 not 1984! But if you get one dont forget you will need a roll of lino!

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10 January 2012, 09:49 PM

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I was born in 84, so never had one.Quite fancy one now

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10 January 2012, 09:54 PM

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I was born in 84, so never had one.Quite fancy one now

Fookme! i was 14 then and everyone had one!

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10 January 2012, 09:58 PM

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Foofing hell, I was 6 in 84 and even I had 1!

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10 January 2012, 09:59 PM

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A bit more up dated version by TDK

Available from HMV

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10 January 2012, 10:07 PM

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http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/golden1.html

Ahh the memories! And yes, we had a sheet of Lino down in the local car park too

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10 January 2012, 10:08 PM

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...oard-case.html

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10 January 2012, 10:14 PM

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I've still got mine

First stereo I bought with my paper round money lol

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10 January 2012, 10:15 PM

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http://imageshack.us/f/412/ghettoblaster.jpg/

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10 January 2012, 10:15 PM

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I was thinking of paying about £150 or swap my headphones for one.

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10 January 2012, 10:35 PM

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Haha, I saw two kids walking across a car park yesterday and one of em had one on his shoulder pretending to break dance lol.

Took me back a bit!

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10 January 2012, 10:47 PM

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Very PC of the OP in his title.... Of course, it should have read: Ghettoblasters/Boomboxes/W*gboxes

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11 January 2012, 12:50 PM

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I'm still using my Hitachi 3D Superwoofer!

Must be circa '88 '89

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11 January 2012, 01:03 PM

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I had one of these about 10/12 years ago. Fooking loved it. sounded the business!

Then I moved to this

Now I have this
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11 January 2012, 01:26 PM

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Very PC of the OP in his title.... Of course, it should have read: Ghettoblasters/Boomboxes/W*gboxes

Brixton Briefcase.

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11 January 2012, 01:29 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScooByer Trade

I quite fancy walking along the street with one of these on my shoulder

.Where can i get a decent one from.What's the best make/model.Don't want anything too expensive.I may swap my headphones for one.

SB.T.

Why inflict what you want to listen to on everyone else?

Les

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11 January 2012, 01:32 PM

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Why inflict what you want to listen to on everyone else?

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11 January 2012, 03:47 PM

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Says the man who posts how own work up on SN

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11 January 2012, 03:49 PM

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Very PC of the OP in his title.... Of course, it should have read: Ghettoblasters/Boomboxes/W*gboxes

Type in W*gboxes in Google Images and it came up with this !!

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11 January 2012, 05:00 PM

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Brixton Briefcase.

A new one on me!

Last edited by joz8968; 11 January 2012 at 05:03 PM.

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11 January 2012, 05:01 PM

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Type in W*gboxes in Google Images and it came up with this !!

WTF!

Now any BMW or a Golf, I could understand. But that(?)

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11 January 2012, 05:18 PM

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I used to love mine

Back in the day me and my mate would harass our folks for money for batteries and spend the whole day Breakdancing outside our local swimming baths on my nan's old kitchen lino!

We used to pop a cap on the floor and made over £15 one day! not bad for 1985!

It was only when we got to about 4pm when our dancing got noticeably slower as the batteries were running low!

Great times!

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11 January 2012, 05:21 PM

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I've got a Panasonic RX-5500 in my garage that I bought in Singapore in 1981. It gets used several times a week and still works perfectly.

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boom...nic-rx5500.jpg

I've also got a Hitachi TRK-9050, but it doesn't work any more!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23.../TRK-90502.jpg

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11 January 2012, 05:24 PM

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I've got a Panasonic RX-5500 in my garage that I bought in Singapore in 1981. It gets used several times a week and still works perfectly.

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boom...nic-rx5500.jpg

The original bad boy!

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11 January 2012, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Funkii Munkii

Says the man who posts how own work up on SN

You don't need to click on it though, but with a ghettoblaster you ain't got a choice

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11 January 2012, 05:36 PM

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The original bad boy!

The best bit was, it cost me £80. I saw one in a hi-fi shop in Southampton a few months later and it was £299! In those days it was $5 (Singapore) to the pound.

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11 January 2012, 10:19 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mgcvk

I'm still using my Hitachi 3D Superwoofer!

Must be circa '88 '89

My Grandma bought one back in the day, used to covet it as it was way better than my Sharp GFA3, seemed wrong for a gran to have such a choice piece of technology, fast forward to 2005 and she gives me it, I thought "wtf will I do with that", then the memories came back, its lived in my garage up on the wall with an old pc plugged into the aux to provide music when in there, still sounds pretty good.