This was the hottest boombox selling in 1988 when I was in the military 🪖 assigned in (West) Germany at the time. Plus, this was amazing when I plugged in my TV, which surround sound, into the CD line-in jack. Set the EQs on both the box and the TV just right and detached the speakers. The effects were wonderful. I missed that thing, great times. 👍
I bought a second hand one same like that it was in perfect condition _ original made in Japan _ I was deeply in love with this RX _ even though I had a bigger more modern Kenwood HiFi system but this one was really something special to me _ ❤❤❤
My theory is that Panasonic was just so hardcore badass so they used sliding volume working as designed to be set to be on full blast. Or off. -- Ah and yeah so sad about Long Wave, very few stations left, but we have one. They sound so nice and very lo-fi. But endearingly lo-fi. Icelandic national radio still broadcasts on LW at 189KHz blasting from the largest radio mast in Europe -412m high at 300kW, which is probably enough to reach Eastern Candada on a good day - the mast was built for LORAN-C by the US and we got it as a hand-me-down when LORAN-C became obsolete.
I may hook up a large antenna one night to see what I get on one of my LW capable radios. I'm in the middle of the continent so very unlikely to reach this far, but who knows!
I have Technics (made by Pana) bluetooth headsets, and the equalizer frequency banding in the phone application is very similar to this boombox. :D Very gorgeous, and seems to be high quality machine!
Hello, what are the differences of the sound quality & the performance between the National RX CW55 & the Panasonic RX-CW55L ? which one is better in all? Thank you.
Definitely from 1988. Here's a 1987/88 (European) Panasonic catalog with it featured on page 40: archive.org/details/panasonic-programm-video-tv-audio-87-88/page/40/mode/2up In 1983, most of their stuff was still an older design language with lots of silver plastic instead of black.
