Sony's New Cassette Boomboxes - East meets West
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- A review of the latest Sony Cassette/CD/Radio boombox models from the UK & Japan.
The CFD-S70 can be found on Amazon
UK: amzn.to/2ePpkq8
US: amzn.to/2wV81OB
CAN: amzn.to/2gXIuej
The CFD-S401 is only available in Japan - amzn.to/2wUJWax
I imported mine via the intermediate shipping company - Jauce
www.jauce.com/
Anders Enger Jensen's music is available at eox.no/
CHAPTERS:
Intro: 00:05 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
New Tapes today: 03:42 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
UK Sony CFD-S70 Review: 06:28 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
Japanese Sony CFD-S401Review: 11:21 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
Audio Comparisons: 21:00 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
Outro Roundup: 24:54 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
The Moan Family: 28:45 • Sony's New Cassette Bo...
The clock that is visible in the background in the sections to camera is the Lametric Time - full review here: • Review: LaMetric Time ...
EXTRA INFO
Regarding the FM Radio Tuners
The Japanese model can be turned in to any frequency between 76.0 to 108.0 with 0.1 increment steps. The UK model can be turned in to any frequency between 87.5 to 108.0 with 0.1 increment steps. Both radios pick up all the frequencies broadcast in the UK. The radio tuner on the UK boombox is less effective at bringing in a clear strong signal.
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I'm a host/producer for a radio station in washington dc. In the edit room I use there is a lot of legacy equipment for previous formats, they are maintained in case we need them. Yesterday an engineer told me (after I told him about you) said that they Library of Congress has an entire department that has EVERY SINGLE audio format player perfectly maintained to play and digitize everything possible they are given!
Just an fyi if you are ever in the states and curious, cheers.
Oh, isn't there also an electronics museum somewhere around San Francisco that maintains a lot of old equipment as well? I heard something like that quite a few years ago.
banihex I hope they have saved everything in realplayer?
That program? I perhaps have it somewhere on DVD as part of some total backup.
LOL, real player was amazing, a true breakthrough technology that basically started streaming audio and video.
Amazing!
Default volume level of "11" - sounds like the single creative outlet for some overworked electrical engineer in Japan.
Probably, lol
Exactly what I thought. I wish them well, wherever they are :-)
Well they had to have something showing. Knowing some UA-cam viewers they'd complain no matter what it displayed.
I can't recall who it was, but there is a clip of a guitar player somewhere on UA-cam talking about his amplifier (was it Frank Zappa?) with a volume setting of 11 and when asked why that is so special he replies with "Well...you know, eleven is one louder than ten..." with a look on his face like "Why do you ask, don't you understand that?"
Are you thinking of the film "Spinal Tap"? It's a parody of a rock band.
''It's the cocaine....''
LOL I love this channel.
You mind not to make fun of him
@7:45 I thought he was talking faster than usual...
Nice to see the patreon dollars are going to good use then.
I was not expecting that and I have seen alot of videos from this channel lol
She don't Lie
She don't Lie
She don't Lie
Cocaine........
I've been watching TechMoan for some time, but I still think he's James May in disguise.
Or James May is TechMoan with a wig.
It's his voice! He sounds very similar to James May many times i thought! I like listening to them both actually!
@@mileshigh1321 Has anyone seen James May and Techmoan in the same place at the same time?
It can’t be James May, his jacket doesn’t fit right
Or he's an alternate reality James may, who fell in love with retro tech and clever gadgets instead of cars, both of them are cool either way XD
*Regarding the FM Radio Tuners*
The Japanese model can be turned in to any frequency between 76.0 to 108.0 with 0.1 increment steps. The UK model can be turned in to any frequency between 87.5 to 108.0 with 0.1 increment steps. Both radios pick up all the frequencies broadcast in the UK. The radio tuner on the UK boombox is less effective at bringing in a clear strong signal. This is not to be considered unusual....some radios are better than others, in the same way that reception on different phones on the same network can vary.
Techmoan that is a let down since my country's radio frequency are from 80-120mhz
Techmoan do you have anything on music on hold for a house telephone
Techmoan hi have you heard the ruark r1 mk3 ? I like to hear your opinion on it
I noticed that when I was browsing Japanese auction sites for boomboxes/radios, a lot of them only tuned from 76-90MHz, which I think is because their analogue TV channels interfered with the international FM broadcast band, so they decided to go with 76-90 instead of 88-108. Many older radios and boomboxes also included support for 'TV band' (i.e. audio from a TV signal) which effectively covered 88-108MHz but it wasn't universal. Now that they've switched over to digital TV, they've expanded their FM band to 76-108, but a lot of radios still don't cover the entire range (especially if they're old models that are still being produced). The thing you need to look for when buying Japanese radios is "Wide FM", which would cover the entire international FM band.
And in Norway the FM is being shut down in favour of DAB+ :/
Great video as always, thank you! :D
Ahh my old friend, Mike Volume.
We go way back..
Eddie Luck i knew his brother Max
I have never met this man before in my life.
You know : Japan import "hi-fi" -> KARAOKE FTW ! :D
Are you Eddie! I think we met at Mike's wedding?
Karaoke, eh?!
"it's cocaine" - best thing ever said in a UA-cam video
That did make me laugh. One of my top UA-camrs. Keep up the good work TechMoan!
pmodern2000 I'd like to know just how many of us watching this cracked a smile on the Charlie comment ? 😂😂😂😂
now we know why he has sinus problems LOL
I suspect he had cancer. He also has no sense of taste. That really sucks. I have thought about it for a while. Would I undergo treatment which did this? Or just enjoy what time I had left. I guess typing it in this thread puts it in perspective. He clearly has life after a sense of taste. Indeed, his taste is for more than just food.
@Peter Lamont I have a constant sinus problem but I don't have cancer.
I love the beige one... it just screams Japanese to me. Something really great about Japanese designs when it comes to electronics, I've been thinking about finding an old 90s Japanese PC and using the case to put a computer in just because they have an extremely retro sci-fi fashion about them that looks specifically Japanese and still very stylish.
I can only imagine how annoying it must be to have to include caveats, justifications, and explanations of obvious features to every point you try to make in an effort to stave off the idiotic masses spamming irrelevant questions and corrections, but think about it this way; in two hundred years there will be scholars asking the same stupid questions and quibbling about pedantry to try and better understand our simple, ancient lives. Your channel will someday be looked on as a miraculous trove of knowledge and enlightenment to Earth's future historians. Keep doing what you do, this channel is a boon to humanity.
Whoa, that's deep.
@@youareababoonandiamnot4317 this guy must have been on an acid comedown when he typed that up. haha
He should save his videos on some kind of back up-hardware, since UA-cam can always decide to delete them or might not even exist 200 years. Stuff on the internet is so fragile; one day you enjoy your favourite movie and the next day some incident happened or the company decides to just shut it down, without making any back up-plans. And you think to yourself, why you didn't save it and why nobody else seem to care.
Already happened a lot of times. And when those things, that thought to be lost, get found they usually sell for a high price.
Early DLC, for example. The japanese-exclusive Advent-DLC for Sonic Adventure is now said to be lost forever. It's nothing huge or important, but the company SEGA either doesn't care or doesn't have any back ups themselfs and the fans have to suffer. And what about smaller Indie-games that nobody really knows about, but get to be called as "hidden-gems" in the future, while most of the media around them is just gone for good?
Don't get too comfortable with the Internet. It's nothing more than a connection through different servers and thus websites, between/on different parts of the world. So don't forget to back up as much as possible and more than once!
Mike Nagy That's my favourite part of his videos, he just sounds so done with that sort of stuff!
Providing UA-cam, or at least it's archive of video's survives that long. My prediction is that in 30 years people will think of youtube as people think of compuserve now. An old service that was ok at it's time. ;)
"if it arrives" Ouch that resonates with me.
It is that exact fact that prevents me from backing things.
I've had a Sony CFD-S01 for around or over 10 years on 24/7 and still works like a charm
haha the cocaine joke was unexpected
how can you be sure it was a joke?
Ha ha, maybe the cocaine was imported inside the tape machine? The loose bit of plastic broke off in his eagerness to open the cassette tray and get at the stash! :D In all seriousness though, Techmoan does not strike me as a cocaine kind of chap. Doughnuts, yes.
@@tjfSIM so, powdered sugar 😂
Best puppet segment yet. High quality stuff, and a great review! I have a Sony clock radio from the 90s that I use because I like waking up to music or news. I'd be interested in this new Japanese machine, because I would be a little all-in-one media center for my bedroom.
Matthew Dezii it'd be awesome if it also had Bluetooth functionality or something. Just an all in one device for my room.
Matthew Dezii
I still want to see a Muppet segment with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and the Stig.....love to see a cameo of Jeremy appear in an actual Techmoan video
watershed44 I'd get a laugh if Jeremy actually voiced it.
The Aldi one has bluetooth.
Given it plays cassettes and looking at the size of the display and the beige colour option I suspect that is marketed at pensioners in Japan. My 76 year old Japanese mother in law would love it!
A few months ago I was looking at reviews of the UK unit. Over half of them were along the lines of "I bought this for my 93 year old Mother who loves the fact that she can play her Vera Lynn tapes again"
15:46 definitely Plena was the last genre of music I'd expect to hear on this channel but you've always got a surprise in store for us!
Thank you for making these videos. They bring back lots of memories, answer old questions not thought of in years and just somehow relax me.
Surprisingly respectable output from the CFD-S70 via the headphone output - I wasn't expecting that.
most are, my cheap 12 quid argos fm/cassette is pretty good with the headphone output, even into a nad&mission amp and speakers
Oh boy we got our selves a HALF HOUR... I WOULD BE EXPLICIT WITH MY EXCITEMENT, BUT I WANT TO KEEP THE COMMENTS CLEAN BC PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GETTING DEMONITIZED FOR COMMENT SECTIONS BEING FOUL. Thanks for your hard work, research and time dude!!
Great show! Thank you, really love your videos, much better than most shows on TV, to say nothing of the fact that there are no such type of shows on TV. 30 minutes passed like 3)))
I agree with you, and in addition, I enjoy watching the puppets at the end. They are entertaining and often funny.
I got the "UK" model as a gift last Christmas, It was around $100 then, from a big box store. I use it in my food truck to jam while cooking/prepping. Bass Boost is a must and it plays CDs pretty well and gets ok AM/FM reception despite being inside a large aluminum box. Tape controls reversed from every other deck I've ever owned and still has to be looked at to get right. Annoying that the thing doesn't remember last station tuned, tired of having to take the time passing a bunch of other stations to get to the one I like every time I power it on. Have not tried the headphones with it. It plays loud enough I have to turn it down once I start getting customers or they won't be heard. It plays over the noise of my commercial vent hood so not as bad as the slagging you gave it I think. In that environment it gives me something to tap my toes to while working, fidelity would be wasted there anyway.
i like sony boomboxes, they have excellent quality and good looking. i have cfs1040s, 27 years old and still working.
I had an AIWA mini boombox that had a "wide" switch which created a bit of surround sound through the 2 built in speakers, but also had outputs for hooking up 2 optional speakers to be placed much further apart and which created a very convincing and well balanced surround effect. With the Mega Bass button pressed the bass was quite solid and nicely defined. Amazing little $50 gadget!
That's it. Moving to Japan.
Narrator in deadpan: "It's cocaine"
Me: "Subscribed"
That timed radio recording feature is nice. I would have loved that in the early-mid 00s when I listened to a hip hop show that aired at midnight. I had to get up for school in the morning and I'd have to lay in bed waiting for it to start, then hit record and go to sleep. Of course I'd usually fall asleep before I could that!
I just can't stop looking at that cassette rack and digital clock. So gorgeous!
Soft touch tape controls on a modern cassette player? Take my money! I really want one of these things but it's impossible to get one. Will be great if Sony would be selling these all over the world. Thanks for sharing :)
That Gunship cassette makes me so jealous every time!
Love this channel, keep up this great work!
Makes me miss my old Sony CFS-77 cassette boom box from the 80's. That bad boy didn't mess around . . .
You put chapter selection with permalinks in the description. This is a greater attention to detail than I have ever seen in a UA-cam video.
"No, no its not cocaine"
Tell it to the judge Techmoan.
"tell it to the judge sunshine"
LordwolfFurry legalize it
*hands Techmoan a test cup* prove it!
I've gotta say, I really Love your videos... Do you happen to have a review of the Nakamichi Dragon Cassette Tape Player?
Apparently 4 years later the S-401 Japanese model still isn't released outside of Japan. However you can buy it new on eBay for $150-170.00USD with free shipping.
I DO like the CFD-S401 from Japan- for one thing it's got a window in the cassette door!! Also, the bass port is very important for proper bass response.
Did you happen to check out the MW reception on the first unit? Sony usually made very good AM receivers.
was it only me hypnotized by the clock there ?
I have the UK one in my kitchen and it sounds great. Really hard to find tape and CD players these days let alone something portable!
There is nothing "nonsense" about boomboxes! Man, I miss them. We Xers grew up with them--they're great!
I found this channel today and I'm very happy about it. I just found a new passion for an older audio equipment. Subscribed.
I have always bought Sony electronics . Still have an mp3 player that works .Got it 10 years ago . A boom box still going strong at 7 years old
Have people really complained about the puppets? *sigh*
Most underrated UA-camr ever! That outro! Sony ES! Inside jokes. So much win here!
Sony’s a great brand but sometimes inconsistent. Same with JBL. I wish they had some kind of quality grading system on their products. Great video!
That reminds me--Mom has a Sony CFD-V27 model, more akin to the black boombox, where the CD and tape drives are on top, though it's much simpler (none of that huge LCD screen) and has a manual FM/AM tuner. She bought it some years ago.
troll deflection techniques are strong with this one! great vid! :D
That alarm setting; Missed opportunity to slap in System of a Down - Chop Suey ;)
WAKE UP. TIMETOPUTONALITTLEMAKEUP
edit:typo's
great way to get a copyright strike even when its within the allowed 5s
I just got rarely used JVC PC-X100 from 1991 omg whata great sound, tape decks works wonderfully, only CD starts little slow but otherwise feels almost like brand new device.
Nice review as always! When I lived in Japan in the 90's, there was a magazine like TV Guide, which listed the radio programs scheduled. Some of my aquaintances built up their music collection in this manner. Your video inspired me to do some research, the same type of info is available on the internet, not sure if the print magazine is still available. So, the timer makes sense in Japan;)
LOL @ "it's cocaine"
I literally shot coffee out my nose when you said that! It was chilled don't worry!
I like how he has those Verbatim branded vinyl record styled Compact Discs.
found you
@@csupo_the_epic darn
love the digital clock above the cassette rack
"This war is won, you just don't know it yet"
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i have the one he called the uk model; mine is the us? model. i got it in walmart last year for $50. the tape player is alright; especially thru the headphone jack fed into my real system; i still have hundreds of albums on cassette so that is good. the thing is my cd player is rotten when played on higher volumes thru the speakers; it vibrates and interrupts itself; also happens if you slightly jostle it or try to play it walking. i have cds or electronic copies of most of the albums on cassette; but there are many that aren't on itunes or too expensive to even by used on cd so i really am in the market for a decent tape deck. the sony replaces a walmart onn deck where the tape motor burned out in less then a year. i expect something similar to happen to the cheap sony. its what you get these days..
We have the CFD S 70 at work 。 It is just a typical boombox with boombox sound 。 I play this video back on my home system and it sounds MUCH better because good a mic was used lol.
Wow the puppet outro on this one was brilliant!
actually, there is one company in Malaysia still making chrome tape, and one in China, so I've been told, but they are the last ones as far as I'm aware, hopefully the re-take-up of the cassette format will lead to more demand for chrome tape, thus maybe lead to another company picking up the production of chrome tape. Also in a previous video you linked to tapeline.info for metal tape, but they've since run out of them, do you have any new sources, or tips for metal tape? As I've recent;y won an ebay auction for a sony, 90's era double cassette deck that has all the bells and whistles including support for Dolby NR B, C, S HX pro and all types of tape, ferro, chrome and metal. so I'd really like to record on the best format of the day...
Metal tape is slightly better than CrO2 tape
I got a sharp portable from the 70s with a radio and cassette player/recorder, one from the 80s, a Panasonic, same equipment, and then a magnavox stereo from the 80s with radio, cassette player, phonograph, and CD player added on. It has 2 tower speakers.
It's great to see the boxes back!
a good way to spot a genuine sony product is by the arrows they put on every quality (and crappy) product they make. you can tell its rebadged or a knockoff because the molds dont contain them.
arrows are present in the cd tray of the japanese one.
I noticed the first Sony one also had the arrows so I reckon Sony actually made this one also
You can buy the CFD-S401 in the US on Amazon from $225 to $450, depending on the merchant. Thank you for your excellent work!
I liked the play button pointing to the left on the S70.
Am I the only one who wants to know more about the devices the puppets are using?
In America, "turn it up to 11" is a euphemism for "play your music loud". I wonder if that has something to do with it.
Brilliant as always! Thank you for making these videos.
"The song that never starts." - LOL!!!!
Next time you're on coccaine, remake the office space bit, with the aldi boom box in the backyard. Please.
Can you do a review on early 2000's mini hifi sets with dual tape decks and multi cd changers? Philips had many different models back in the day. Those could really get your china cabinets to rattle!
Those foldout instructions were deliberately included to give it that special retro feel hahaha.
Japanese shops still sell A LOT of cassette players Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, they still have them all, and even new tapes (mostly Memorex brand, if I´m not mistaken).
Also they still sell fax machines almost everywhere, it´s awesome to see 3, 4 decades in one electronics department of a regular department store.
I almost bought myself a double-deck cassette player from Toshiba, but from some cheap reason I decided not to back in March 2017. Oh, the regrets...
**** correction: All tapes I saw were Maxell branded, I just checked on the photos I took.
I don't know about you guys, but I find the puppet show at the end of every video very amusing for some reason
I find your collection of old school hip hop impressive.
I think that if you picture in your mind a "normal" cassette player whereas the open side of the cassette is pointed toward you and the cassette laying flat, and take that and turn it to this orientation the buttons might start making sense.
For those interested ¥10,190 is $92.24 or £69.79
Ian Melzer Yeah, but to get it directly through Amazon, it'll cost $450.00!
I guessed 89.99 so I was pretty close. That's a error rate of 2.2697%. XD
theLuigiFan0007 Yen price minus about 10% will give a great approximate price in US dollars. Just move decimal.
Yeah, 1jpy is roughly equal to about 0.905 cents. I used a faster estimation of round to the nearest 100 and then multiply by 0.009. I thought I was a bit over so I rounded it down to $89.99, with the 99 instead of a flat $90 because prices in the US are almost always that way. Would'v been much closer if I hadn't rounded down afterwards, I would have instead got 91.67.
theLuigiFan0007 Well, now that's out of the way... hurry-up and make one to sell in the English-speaking markets, Sony!!
the difference in the sound is also due to the alignment of the tape head to the cassette you use i had mine tuned to a happy medium and all my tapes sound grate.
That S401 is gonna be my new alarm clock. I'll go buy a labeler as well.
I'm going to make a video about my (circa)1963 RCA-Victor New Vista, which was my late grandpa's Victrola. A Victrola!
Does that sound interesting, TM? It's got a record changer that I put a stack of 12 compilation albums, primarily of big band hits, to play as I go to bed. That's because it turns itself off when it's done. More details when I release the video.
Oh the puppets are SO properly British! "Whats for tea mum"?
Twat
You said its cocaine so casually its as if its normal for you
I recently bought a CFD-S70 to use in my kitchen & garden. One thing I find disconcerting is that the cassette door doesn't have a window! This means that while you're playing or rewinding/fast-forwarding cassettes, you have no idea where you are on the tape! On most tape players, you can easily see at a glance how much tape is on each reel, but with this one, there's no way of telling.
Very useful video (as always!). Yes, I bought the Sony CFD-S70 to play cassettes - I think it was £60 ish RRP is £75 apparently) and it does the job, but sound is rather thin. It works ok. Based on your other review, I think the Panasonic RXD55 is worth the extra £35 as it has a louder output (watts) and also a remote. I think Sony trade on their name a lot and probably should be selling stuff at the higher end, which they're good at. Thanks for your excellent review.
That Blackberry joke was damn good. I'm sure that Mr. Mobile would love it
The eject being "eager" is likely that they don't use the thick transparent grease on the door mechanism anymore, and simply use springs and cogs. The grease used to be horrible sticky stuff, especially when cold, tape doors were always slow. In warm weather the door would open smoother and quicker.
This item does not ship to Russia. As always! Nevertheless...
Victor Mushkarin but in Soviet Russia, this item ships you 😮
Japanese unit is a much better device
Used to have an old 80's Panasonic boom box I inherited from my brother. Was really nifty. AM Stereo, FM Stereo, LW, and it even supported Dolby.
I still play Mp3's from CD-R because my 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee's car stereo plays them. That looks like a quality boombox. I wish Sony would sell it worldwide.
The japan version is the best in quality in sound.
That Hi-Fi is otherworldly though
Great video as ever and a fantastic Muppets video :) Of course, I had an Atari 8Bit which was much better than both the Speccy or Commy :)
BBC micro here. Wanna fight ;-)
To be fair prior to the Atari I my dad had bought a Dragon 32. I loved it because it was our first computer but I knew it was rubbish and couldn't hold a candle to much back then.
them backwards buttons put me off buying it instantly. Sony go further up my unlike company list each year yet 10 years ago i loved em :(
Man your music selection is on point
I really like your new format, Keep up the good work!!!
I predict as cassettes become as retro and trendy as vinyl then old, quality, cassette decks in good order will go up in value.
Maxx, in this context to clarify, "quality" refers to the cassette decks as having decent sound and operation. I suggest you look up the definition and usage of the word "quality" in order to properly understand my comment.
Maxx Fordham, I'm not talking about manners and intelligence. I'm talking about quality cassette decks, which will soon go up in value. I'll ask you again to look up the definition of the word "quality".
I wouldn't be so sure. Vinyl is now popular and has one advantage recording studios might like - it has good protection against physical copies. There are no Vinyl-R or Vinyl-RWs :-) around. But with cassette, anyone with a tape deck can make physical copy. Try buying a machine that creates vinyl records.
Maxx Fordham, you came on here to make a nit-picking, pedantic criticism of my perfectly valid and reasonable, and grammatically correct comment about my view that "QUALITY cassette decks" will go up in value in the future. Not only that, but you can't even be bothered to properly look up the definition of the word you seem to have so much objection to. Then you reveal your absolute ignorance and, quite frankly bad manners by resorting to petty and groundless insults.
You do realise that resorting to insults in a discussion is an admission that you are the one in the wrong??
cblusb, good point about the inherent copy protection of vinyl. In the 70's and 80's the recording industry was panicking about home taping :- "Home taping is killing music" adverts with a skull and crossbones cassette. This was unfounded as vinyl and commercial cassette sales increased as did CD's in the 80's and 90's. The difference is, however that a cassette copy of vinyl audio is not a perfect copy and you do not have the instant access to all the tracks as you do with a record. Not so for the internet and downloading which has all but killed the music industry.
None of these new machines have cue/review making them all fairly useless for dictation and transcription of music. The old Sony TCM-939 was perfect for this task and was very robust
Just bought one of these CFD-S70 portables and find that it doesn't sound too bad through it's built-in speakers, and it has a decent cassette deck - steady speed!
I thought I'd try out the CD-to-tape recording on this device and have just recorded 'Public Broadcasting Service - The Race For Space" from CD to tape on this CFD-S70.
Playing back the tape on my main Hi-Fi system from a Technics RS-TR575 cassette deck, it's amazing what a good job that the auto-level control system employed by Sony portable can do! It sounds 'full' - plenty of transients, no pulsing of volume levels between high and low volume sounds, no compression, very clean and clear, with a good low noise floor...even though there's no Dolby, there's no noticeable hiss, and this is using a standard Maxell UR90 cassette.
I must say that I'm pretty impressed with this little inexpensive boom-box!
Has the CD stopped working yet? It's a common fault on these machines that develops after 1 to 2 years of use.
@@leaderx7547 : So far.. No! It's still all working perfectly... :-)
Techmoan is a true thug, always showing these dope ass rap and hip-hop albums in his videos
I watched this on my Apple iPhone 11 and judging from what came out of my phone’s speakers the last boom box sounded the best….
But technology is changing and soon both cd’s and cassettes will disappear and replaced by ????
But it’s good to know that there’s a used market out there where you can buy them.
Interesting video
A friend of mine gave me one of those CFD-S70 sets. Long story shortened: It's a slap in the face to the real Sony company. That thing IS a re-branded cheapo set. It's OK for what it actually is and how much they cost for a little knock-around disposable cheapo-player, but they need to get that "Sony" name off that thing!... lol! :-)
I just wanted something for CD's that sounded good and found a Sony S2 ZS-X10 at a garage sale for 5 dollars and it works and sounds amazing for a Boombox I notice old Sony devices are much better made
Panasonic still makes cassette boomboxes, the most popular model is the Panasonic RXD45 CD Radio Cassette Player which is widely available in Australia
Man. The physical design of the new boomboxes is AWFUL!!! Terrible build quality too. 😿😿😿
Whatever happened to detachable speakers?
Mike Angelo that was the decline era. Detachable speakers ruined the aesthetics. The golden era for boomboxes was 1979-1983.
What do you mean? At least on the Japanese unit, I thought it looked pretty good in both aesthetics and build quality. I can definitely see what you mean with the UK model though. It almost made me cringe to look at its build quality.
@@mikeangelo6667 They detached...
The bubble shaped cabinets give an awful plastic tone quality compared to the early 80s boom boxes