I don’t get why a company like Sony doesn’t make a modern version of this, give it CD, cassette, Bluetooth. Dan radio, mic input and awesome speakers. Give it some custom faceplate colors and it would sell very very well

I bought the gold one of those ghetto blasters. It's fine for me, I like playing my recorded tapes from my hi fi on it. I tried recording on it but that was a bit shit , the radio is brilliant it picks up FM clear as a bell. In the summer I will enjoy it better in the garden with a few beers!

Yes please, let's see a vid on improving it. 🙂👍

I say gut it and replace each part with decent gear to see how nice it could be. That is a huge project mind you.

Usually I'd recommend a proper retro boom box, but actually these days for sound quality I'd say a high end Bluetooth speaker got much better sound quality than even the best boom boxes from the 80s and 90s.

It would be interesting to see how far this thing could be improved, i.e. adding tweeters, fixing VU meters, removing buzz/hum etc.

I think you should mod it. Fix the tape mechanism, wire the VU meters in properly, fix the buzzing, add tweeters, stencil a SONY logo on the font... 🙂 You probably think it's not worth your time, but I think it looks like it could be hackable into something fun.

TheRetroMoan 😂

Underneath the fake set of tweeters that are underneath the other fake set of tweeters should be some fake mids...and fuck it, toss in another set of fake tweeters. Then it would be perfect.

Yes, you can tell just by looking at it that it is cheap and wouldn't record decent. However, this would be fine for a kids rooms to play tapes or the radio on. Or some one that just want to play their old tapes with it would be fine. It is in the quality of the suitcase record players that you can get for around $45 USD.

Jay car is like a nerds paradise these days. I go in for a resister, and come out with a bunch of shit I don't need.

Almost felt like a Techmoan video which I enjoyed. I'd love to see an upgrade video. Not too long ago I did an upgrade to a vintage but inexpensive boombox. replaced the speakers and added a bluetooth module. The tapedeck still doesn't work, but I don't own any audio tapes, so It wasn't something I was concerned with. I'm pretty happy with the sound quality, but I have seen videos where they say replacing things like Op amps make a huge difference. I'm sure you could also do some other tweaking to the audio circuit to improve sound quality. The tape mech is garbage, so I wouldn't expect miracles unless you can swap it with a high end one. You could add some real tweeters and make some crossover boards fairly cheap. I used to make my own when I first got into car audio. Sky is the limit. Worlds greatest sounding boombox would probably get a million views as a short.

Interesting stuff 😢

I'd also be curious to see what mods could be done. Could something interesting be swapped out for the caestte unit, for instance?

Visually looks kinda nice, but overall I'm not sure if I would buy it for myself

I remember in the 80's when all the kids were rocking smooth jazz on their ghetto blasters!!!

That seems to be internally very similar to HS-8922 I saw a review for recently. Externally, visually different to a degree, but similar enough that I thought it was the same device.

Thanks for sharing your junk with us, and maybe saving some of us a few bucks in the process! 😀 If you want to mod it, I think it will be a huge time sink, and I would only do it if you're completely bored of everything else life has to offer or strangley think it's worthy of your time. Nothing much will really improve a modern cassette mechanism enough to make you intentionally listen to it when you have a perfectly good one right over your shoulder. Still want to improve it? Gut it, put in a decent amp and bluetooth module, work over the accoustics, throw a battery pack into it and use your phone to blast all of that, well whatever you lot listened to in the 1980s.... Yes tongue firmly in cheek here, whatever you do with it, have fun and keep us posted.

interesting video, i was thinking if it was possible to use this ghetto blaster to create some c64/ Spectrum 48k/amstrad cpc/ etc... datasette via usb or sdcard wave files. :/

Haha I had the same thing happen to me last time I was at Jaycar, except I didn't go back and buy one!

Crosley has one just like it. I think they're all made from the same company and just rebadged

You took your wife to Jaycar? Brave man.

wow

hi are you based in the uk

THEY MADE THOSE BOMBOXES WORST THAN FISHER TOYS CASSETTE PLAYERS FOR KIDS .

Jaycar selling cheap shite? Colour me suprised /s

Not everything that looks pretty is gold. So goes that old saying.

another very bad mechanic with the 80s era all boomboxes were made perfectly.

Just by reading the comments, it's garbage.