The Connoisseur’s Boombox - FH7 Fully Loaded

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A look at the optional extras for the versatile Sony FH-7 Mini HiFi
Music featured in this video...
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A bit of extra info about ribbon cables -
I didn’t include this in the video as it’s irrelevant to almost everyone, but just in case you do go looking for an EBP-78 DC adaptor… it’s worth noting that the ribbon cable connectors on the FH7 Mk3 have plastic cut-outs at the top that accommodate corresponding protrusions present on the FH7 Mk3 sockets. The Mk2 sockets don't have these protrusions. Therefore the Mk3 cable that was included with my DC power adaptor fitted my FH7 Mk2 just fine, but the Mk2 cable would have need trimming with a Dremel to fit the FH7 Mk3 DC power supply’s ribbon cable socket. The pin-outs are the same. You see now why I didn't include this bit...yawn.
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@foxysausage6091 Год назад

I miss this kind of styling. Compact, yet still having great presence.

@raythomas4812 Год назад

Well Said ! - you just don't get this sort of design ingenuity anymore - and it still sounded great

@roppa789 Год назад

I thought you were referring to Matt! lol

@RisingRevengeance Год назад

@@roppa789 compact little man yet a great presence lol

@pdpotman420 Год назад

I like it but I'm still a sucker for the 00s era excess with lights and vfd displays.

@onyourjackjones Год назад

OK boombox

@GreySectoid Год назад

80s mini hifi was truly the peak aesthetics, not to mention the perfect blend of features and size.

@darwiniandude Год назад

Absolutely. I have the CFS-9900, similar in many ways, portable. Runs on 10x D batteries for 15V. APM square drivers still. Very powerful for a very compact (but very heavy) portable.

@kirinoa Год назад

80s Hifi in general. It's really expressing its love for technology. A new, digital world has opened up and we want to show it to all of you unapologetically. A huge contrast of todays' design, where it's hiding itself as it it was ashamed of its capabilities. Just like another piece of furniture or room decoration

@socksumi Год назад

The peak of aesthetics was the mid to late 70s. Look at gorgeous big components made not of plastic but of polished aluminum, stainless steel, real veneers and glass.

@lesnuitssanskimwilde7986 11 месяцев назад

@@socksumi In terms of quality I agree with you but it was a bit boring. In the first part of the 80s designs were more bold, they tried different things, mixing colors... Then it went downhill with the all black stuff. FH7 is partly in metal and speakers are made of wood, hence the 15kgs.

@AudioThrift Год назад

That whole setup looks pretty cool. They really did a lot to make it look cool. Props to the industrial designers behind it.

@nickwallette6201 Год назад

I've used a lot of CD players since then, but watching this takes me back to when dropping a CD into a player felt so new and high-tech. I felt that in the mid-80s when we got our first CD player, again in the late 80s when I got my first portable CD player, in the mid-90s when I got my first CD-ROM drive, and in the latter 90s when I installed my first CD head unit in my car.

@norcal715 Год назад

Thank you. I always wanted one of the Sony systems in the mid 80's but just could not afford one. They were indeed leaps and bounds above the competition.

@ClayMann Год назад

same. I would spend hours looking through those mostly clothing catalogues and work out how much pocket money it would take to own them, heh

@siwynjones Год назад

I said I wanted a portable radio-cassette for Christmas in 1987 (I was 11), and my dad took me down the local electrical shop to choose one. I went for one that was within my budget of I think £60 (we weren’t well off), but while there I kept playing with a Sony unit which looked like it was from the future, although I knew I couldn’t have it as it was £100 (ie far too expensive). Christmas Day came, and I they’d only got me the Sony one. I felt like the luckiest boy in the world, and I loved that thing to death; it was a Bobby Dazzler. I still have it now, and it still works (although it needs belts); it’s a CFS-W401L. 36 years later and I still usually “just get the Sony one”.

@80s_Boombox_Collector Год назад

Until you had to replace the surrounds on those speakers.

@ClayMann Год назад

@@siwynjones that £100 is roughly £300ish today. Quite a sum for a working class family. Your parents must have gone all out for that one! I don't think I ever got a gift that expensive. A grifter bike was probably up there but not sure how much they were. That was my Xmas present aged 10 and was stolen a few short months later. Still feel that one today lol I had that feel for Sony too but that price premium meant I didn't usually end up with that. I had many knock off walkman clones that all died too soon. Also impressed you managed to hang onto that. Selling gifts from a year or two ago was a sort of default state in our house. Only Lego survived the culling! hehe

@siwynjones Год назад

@@ClayMann Yeah, I know, it really was an exception rather than the rule. My dad used to do a lot of overtime and foreigners, so maybe he had a good run of those. My "Walkmans" were £5 Alba jobs from Argos, my trainers from Woolies, and my coats "off a bloke on the market". Stuff usually had to be handed down to my little brother, but he didn't get that thing as he's never liked music. I had a Grifter for Christmas in 1983, come to think of it; I'm sure they were about £100 too. Maybe they fell off the back of a lorry. 😀

@xjet Год назад

Ah, the great old days of consumer audio -- when systems had real character. I can't believe how little 30 years of tech advance has improved the listening experience. Love the nostalgia vids.

@dcarbs2979 Год назад

The previous 30 years did see quite a lot of advance (1955-85): Shellac to vinyl, Mono to stereo, valves to transistors, multiple new formats like 8-track, tape and CD. Not to mention a huge change in design from wooden furniture to metal-esque plastic towers.

@C6Fever Год назад

Bought an FH-55W in 1986. Still have it. Still looks and sounds amazing. Taking it with me. You know, to my grave.

@Daijyobanai Год назад

not long now

@video99couk Год назад

3:25 That DIGITAL logo was used even on Sony's professional (and seriously expensive) PCM equipment including the studio grade PCM-1630 for use with professional U-matic tapes, and PCM-F1/501/601/701ES series for use with Beta tapes. It also appears on their 8mm PCM equipped video recorders like the EV-S800. I have working samples of all of those.

@dracodevis Год назад

My god that thing is beautiful.

@kyles7087 Год назад

Agreed!! ❤

@FranLab Год назад

I would add that the rarest feature of this CD player is the white vaculuminescent display... blue, red, and green were common in the 80's but white was really rare cutting edge kit in those days.

@nickwallette6201 Год назад

Nothing since has come close to how cool and sophisticated that looks. LED, LCD, and even fancy graphical displays just don't compare.

@straightpipediesel Год назад

Uh no. VFDs generate their color from phosphors, just like a CRT TV. If you have red, green, and blue phosphors, you literally mix them up and you got yourself a white phosphor.

@arjovenzia Год назад

Love that thing, very formative for me. My aunt had one and an impressive CD collection. I spent many hours making mixtapes on that thing every time we visited. Love the styling, love the era.

@blahorgaslisk7763 Год назад

Mid to late 80's was the golden years of these kinds of systems. I remember going to a electronics fair and drooling over all the cool systems put out by Sony, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, Marantz, and all the others. Even Sharp had some cool systems. That year the next big thing was programmable remote controls. I remember a Mitsubishi system where you disconnected the entire front panel and used that as the remote from your couch. Another thing I saw at that fair was one of the first demonstrations of DAB. We were promised that it would be the standard and in ten years FM radio would be a memory of the past. There were also a record player that used a laser instead of a regular stylus. The "pickup" was mounted on a tangential arm that was moved using pneumatics. To demonstrate the tracking they played a LP that was fixed to the turntable a few centimeters off center. Seeing the laser slide back and forth while the music played was surreal. I have a feeling that the big thing in speakers that year was either flat honeycomb "cones" or cones made of birch wood. I can't remember which for sure, but I think it was the flat "cones". Round or rectangular, it seemed every manufacturer was on the train.

@mark902 Год назад

old sony stuff is just my cup of tea. when i was a kid i had the perception that there was sony, and then everyone else trying to be sony. seeing those vertically flat trinitron picture tubes next to all those round shadow mast sets everyone else had really made their tvs look like the future. they just seemed to be on the bleeding edge of technology and design. they were the apple of the eighties, i'd say.

@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele Год назад

Sony in mid '80s to early '90s was really at the peak of innovation and product quality, for consumer electronics!

@Toasty_Gaming Год назад

I'd also argue mid '90s to early '00s was a great stretch for them, considering their trinitrons and handycam lines

@radry100 Год назад

Still is

@Bondo9o Год назад

since the mid-1990s, there has been a visible decline in the quality of their audio products.

@toyokawashigako1643 Год назад

umm wtf you talking about, they STILL are at their peak NOW smh

@toyokawashigako1643 Год назад

@@Toasty_Gaming and from 2000s till TODAY, as in NOW

@deathstrike Год назад

This is just further proof that MANY electronics, appliances, and other devices were built leagues better than anything today. And that's why vintage equipment is so very sought after and worth a pretty penny (pence in UK). Good video as always Matt!!! And awesome system!! Sony at its very best.

@nickwallette6201 Год назад

Hmm... well, it's better made than a lot of the consumer junk, but it was better than contemporary consumer junk, too. This was _high-end_ consumer junk. A lot of stuff made today is quite high quality. It's just nowhere near as flexible, accessible (from the front panel), or bold. We're in a minimalist era, where high-end means "slab of indeterminate tech." With the exception of batteries or network-connected stuff, I'm sure quite a bit of it would still work in 40 years.

@SuperPickle15 11 месяцев назад

@@nickwallette6201that is what irks me about people that say "they sure don't build them like they used to". Like, they comparing a $1,500 hifi system to the $70 walmart crap "hifi"...

@chiskennougat7116 Год назад

The shots and framing in this video are gorgeous! You really went all-out with the filming, and it turned out great!

@rachelgray9307 11 месяцев назад

Too right. I cannot quite believe that Mr TM appeared even to go to the trouble of seamlessly splicing the video footages as the components were added so that the cassette appeared to be rolling continuously. Take a look at 0:21 and again at 10:29. Hats off...

@nickfatsis9607 Месяц назад

@@rachelgray9307 it's a very basic editing technique YM has used, it's not that impressive.

@leogrievous Год назад

I think the portable use case for the FH-7 was more intended towards easily being able to carry your stereo outside to have some entertainment at grill party in the garden etc. Seems like it would work well for that. As opposed to taking a boombox to a park or basketball court.

@DgaDM Год назад

Wow, hats off for Sony's engineering team! It's amazing they took the effort to apparently use multiple power lines throughout all components, it shows how well thought out this system is!

@nickwallette6201 Год назад

I wonder how much difference that actually made, though. The indicator LEDs can't be taking more than a couple mA. Not sure if the backlight is LED or fluorescent though. The latter could be substantial.

@MarijnRoorda Год назад

Aww yes, those were the days... Now i just gaze over to my mobile, startup a app, and choose the bluetooth connection to speakers or earplugs... Ooh how far have we come!

@brenthaymon280 11 месяцев назад

I could not live without a Bluetooth speaker connected to my phone.

@michaelheimbrand5424 Год назад

Peak nostalgia for me. As a teenager I got the FH-5 from (i think) year after the FH-2 and FH-7. The FH-5 is far less clunky when it comes to power supply. It just has a regular AC connector and also a big "drawer" for the batteries. But the FH-5 was the only one possible then to run on batteries. And yes, it was very heavy, but the important bit was of course the coolness about it. -About the power consumption, lets just say that "range anxiety" is not a modern term in my vocabulary. For those who doesn´t have a "FH fetish" we have to also mention the FH-10W with stronger amp and double cassette. And last but not least....*drum roll*....The FH15R! The flagship with most power and also equipped with a remote.

@8bitwiz_ Год назад

Well worth watching before sunrise on a Saturday morning. A very stylish system, and very well presented. It's definitely an "absolute unit".

@D4lF4l69 Год назад

Thanks for the look back in time My older cousins had this in their bedroom when I was about 8 or wasn't allowed to touch it. Such a cool piece of tech, seeing it now all put together is kinda nostalgic especially the record player and CD add ons This is why I appreciate you're channel

@enisra_bowman Год назад

ah, the classical cousin move, as if you could break something off by pressing play

@adamdavies6248 Год назад

What a beautiful bit of 80's kit, love that style. Proper nostalgia! Thanks for sharing. 🙏

@markman278 Год назад

I got myself a cdp-7 a couple years back and when I took it to work everyone loved the look. Just 80s tech at it’s finest.

@gavinhardy75 Год назад

I used to have this (without turntable or cd player). Gifted to me by my parents. My dad bought it in the U.A.E in the mid 80s. It had a pretty good sound. I used to attach a discman via the rca input.

@bellshooter Год назад

Great hifi era, my first cd player was the D5 'portable' with a battery pack the size of a standard cassette recorder, had C cells ! First few in the country.

@PhoenixGuitars Год назад

Yeah that’s an awesome system. Back when quality mattered to most manufacturers. Thanks for sharing!

@314299 Год назад

Saturday morning, a cup of coffee and a new Techmoan vid - excellent! What a great looking mini system, from back when Sony did things properly.

@hanzzarkov7690 Год назад

I do enjoy watching these boombox/minisystem vids. I've gone through a few, some with better results than others. My most traumatic loss was when i mistakenly left a detachable speaker type system on the roof of the car, to surprisingly see it pass through my rear view mirror on its way to shatter on the pavement. I felt still carry my guilt. My friend laughed, I cried. Genuinely appreciate your good work.

@DartzIRL Год назад

Sony's batteries from the 80's are crazy. I've a 1980 battery in a camera accessory that I got NOS in 2020 ---- and it still works. They are immortal

@fhwolthuis Год назад

Lovely machine, I love these esthetics

@bsadewitz Год назад

They really do have a timeless appeal--and not just because I'm old and was a kid in the 80s.

@runkurgan Месяц назад

I couldn't stop drooling the entire time! This is what I dreamed of owning when I was a kid. And now I got a good buyer's guide.

@LejendaryLoozer Год назад

I had a huge bookshelf/boom box like this that sounded absolutely fantastic. A JVC PC-55, I gave it away in 2002 or so, which I regretted almost immediately.

@espressomessiah Год назад

Hi Mat , what a great review! Especially as you tracked down and reviewed the optional DC power supply. What a fantastic range of of options the 80s yuppie, i mean audio connoisseur had.

@DeanHSmith Год назад

My first ever system was the top-of-the-range FH-150R with a CDP-7F. This video brings back fond memories. I wish I still had it.

@stefanschneider3681 7 месяцев назад

What a beautiful piece of technique! And what a change to nowadays with a Smartphone and a decent Bluetooth-speaker that often have surprisingly good sound quality and volume. Thx. for sharing!

@QuattroUK2011 Год назад

All these years later and it still looks good! Honestly to me it looks so well built and love all the retro 80's logos.

@taldmd Год назад

That's a really neat piece of kit! Never seen it before, and the amount of product lines, models, accesories, iterations.. that Sony made in every range (low-end consumer, medium consumer, high-end consumer, prosumer, professional) still amazes me, just having a catalog of *everything* they ever made would be an absolute treasure.

@geepeerces Год назад

I had a Sony system almost just like this, but the planar speakers were 3 way, the tuner was analog, and the lower unit had a battery compartment in back that held 12 D cells. I bought it new in the early 80s, and we used it for many years. Ah, I guess mine was the FH-5

@peterlarkin762 Год назад

They aren't planar drivers in the APM speakers, two normal tweets, and the bass driver is very similar to a normal speaker except the coil is attached to 4 'pistons' that control the square 'cone'. Really cool tech... When Sony did interesting stuff just form the heck of it.

@curiousottman Год назад

It’s hard to describe how something like this feels in person. It feels like quality. Like money. Heavy. Not cheap feeling at all. Sony truly had the best engineering of all of the companies for consumer grade electronics.

@solarbirdyz Год назад

Okay, I rather love this. In particular, I love the actual _functional_ modularity of it all. Even without a DC power supply it was about at that level, but the ability to swap all that in just launched it up and into space.

@GuillermoTessi Год назад

Sadly, we will never see products like this and of this quality, in the future.

@DudditsJoeFinemusic Год назад

Enjoyed every second of this video! Thank you SIR!

@sixty-four Год назад

can i just say i love your voice ahaha. i had my year 12 exams this week and after binge watching all your videos instead of studying, my inner monlogue started reading all the questions as if you were in my head. made the exams much more enjoyable.

@matthewweflen Год назад

Possibly the most Sony thing that has ever been Sony-ed. Wonderful and cool.

@paulc9588 Год назад

These Sony 'FH' series mini hi-fis (and the CFS-9000 boombox) really were the tops in the mid-late 1980s. A perfect blend of style, build quality and sonic performance. The issue was that they were quite expensive at a time when hi-fi was becoming cheaper. They appealed to a certain type of customer who wanted something ultra modern and looked as good as it sounded . . . and was prepared to pay more to get it. As a student I worked in a couple of hi-fi departments ('86 and '87) and although we sold quite a few of these they ended up being discounted because cheaper equivalents were appearing from all the big players. Not as desirable maybe, but price point matters. At least I got my CFS-9000 for a bargain price!

@mcolville Год назад

The CD player has an Index display! Worth its weight in gold for that alone!

@paulillingworth1242 Год назад

I had a Sony boombox with detachable speakers in the mid 90s, it was brilliant for what it was, loved it, missed it when I let it go.

@bsadewitz Год назад

Yeah, I had one of the ordinary ones when I was a kid in the 80s--just a tape deck and an analog tuner--but it sounded pretty good. The speakers definitely were detachable; I recall the grooves and everything.

@MrAsBBB Год назад

Wow you channel delivers. I remember the excitement back in the day with regard to this type of equipment. The quality and the displays, LEDs etc which are now devoid really on todays technology. I am like like the Mel Smith add talking about a piece of equipment that has knobs on… Great content and expertly delivered as always

@ChristianBehnke Год назад

My parents had a later version of the Sony system from the early 90's; the styling was very similar but the central components were all fixed in one body, and the battery bay was built-in. It too was heavy (even without batteries), but sounded phenomenal!

@Ilanvain Год назад

I absolutely love watching your videos Thanks for making them Keep up the great work techmoan

@ek_films Год назад

Having watched so much DankPods in my time, hearing Walk Through the Park by TrackTribe elsewhere always makes me trip.

@TheLtData Год назад

I love these systems for the looks and the quality.

@borandolph1267 Год назад

Your new video editing technique is cool, but I definitely missed seeing you in more of the video! Very cool system you tracked down

@--zero Год назад

That is one beautiful system.

@damonappel Год назад

Wow. As often, watching this Techmoan video got me looking at it on eBay, out of curiosity. The FH-7 was actually available in 3 colors: The black seen here, a silver AND a pretty awesome fire engine red! 😮

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Cool! 😎

@martinjones5560 Год назад

Love the 80s Sony styling. You’d find me drooling over them in Dixons on a Saturday morning.

@patrakitkomolkiti9620 3 месяца назад

I once had it in the 80s, it would be fantastic to own CD & record player like you have. ❤❤❤❤❤

@thisfeatureisbad Год назад

I love that tube timer you used. Reminds me of the Czechoslovakian era back then.

@PaulBloomlittledevil 6 месяцев назад

I use the CD player for this as my primary CD transport, it is amazing, and looks really beautiful as a stand alone device.

@volvo09 5 месяцев назад

I love the "boxy" design with sharp right angles. Mini systems these days are all over styled and gaudy, like they are trying to prove to you through looks how impressive they are. This is just functional and well designed. No space wasted on unnecessary curvy colored plastic.

@RandallSlick 10 месяцев назад

I found one of these on Freecycle a few years back. Some faults of course but a lovely piece of kit and brought back teenaged memories of gawping in Rumbelows. Now long gone courtesy of divorce. The turntable was a thing of beauty.

@jordantomblin2302 Год назад

If I had the money, one of these mini systems would be my daily driver for a hi-fi.

@davidwood4303 Год назад

Another fantastic video, Techmoan! Couldn't quite believe it when you showed the exact-same CD player I found at our local tip a few years age; at 38 years old, it still works beautifully. And I agree: the LEDs are really classy! I had no idea it was designed to fit into the (sort-of) portable range this way. Damn rare nowadays, it seems. Mine's a keeper, that's for sure.

@Trance88 Год назад

This is the EXACT type of system I'd love to have! What a beast of a "portable."

@gwheregwhizz Год назад

The lost technologies of the past... The building of the pyramids and Stonehenge. Antikythera mechanism. Damascus steel. Greek fire. Decent cassette decks.

@wizard-pirate Год назад

This is a nice format for a video. I'm really entranced.

@r0kus Год назад

I'm glad when you get stuff in that works. 🙂

@ronhutcherson9845 Год назад

I had a D5 CD player that I used in my car. I was the only person I knew with a CD player in a car - for a long time. The D5 was good but with the 8 D-cell battery pack was pretty clunky. It also skipped when you hit a bump. I got the D-10 when it first came out - it was marvelous.

@ilkoreano Год назад

Love the "time capsule" line. Thanks Matt.

@donchimpson4934 Год назад

Love the look of this thing and its ability to transform puts it over the top when it comes to cool factor.

@jamespfp Год назад

10:00 -- RE: The Stopwatch; Full disclosure, my brain reminded me to Thumb Up this video when it perceived the warm orange glow of the tubes. Excellent video!

@pillowhacker Год назад

Beautiful 80's Sony industrial design as always. Lovely just looking at these things.

@passacaglia28 Год назад

This is so beautiful to me, and in such good condition!! Thanks for always posting such great stuff.

@markjamesmeli2520 Год назад

And, after years of telling yourself your stereo system needs to fill up a room - this is just the thing you ALWAYS needed.

@PaulinesPastimes 11 месяцев назад

Excellent. The DIGITAL wording with the cross hatching is so Hi-Tech. Peak 80s. You have a wonderful collection. 😊

@Platinumiom 5 месяцев назад

As always it was an amazing vid ❤

@AnEnglishmanOverseas Год назад

as a teen, i had an almost identical sony system that had a double cassette.... it was my main bedroom stereo for many years. although it did develop a strange balance fault where it would only play one stereo channel. this was fixed with percussive maintenance when i dropped the thing when moving it one day...

@a1b1c184 Год назад

I had something very similar to this when I was a teenager in the early 90's except it was a Panasonic. I love these videos about old Hi Fi systems and boomboxes. Great content as always.

@coolpoete Год назад

Man!!!! such great memories!! I remember my dad bringing home the FH-828 (I had to google the models to find it!) and assebling and playing around with it for days upon days on end and being completely fascinated with it. We purchased the CD player attachment to it and while it didn't go on modularly with the handle I kept it all throughout high school and college as it had a 3.5mm headphone jack and separate volume knob that I attatched my Bose Roommate speakers to. My best friend STILL has the CD Player and I STILL have those Bose speakers.

@DoggyHateFire Год назад

I know it's pure nostalgia, but I miss how these things used to look. My dad was in the army and he was stationed in Korea for a year in the late 80s when I was really young and he came back with all this great stereo equipment. He had six disc CD changer with a magazine that had removable plastic trays you put the discs in. I thought it was so cool when I was six years old.

@KeritechElectronics Год назад

Modularity for the win! I like its design. But we all know what is the real deal star of this episode... yes, the Pragotron nixie stopwatch!

@51xeno 11 месяцев назад

What a wonderful episode, thank you!

@mortenpedersen6149 Год назад

Great, as always! Thanks for great quality content.

@SockyNoob Год назад

Mat using a nixie timer is the ultimate flex.

@A2theC Год назад

That was a really cool addition to your set, glad you were able to get a hold of one! Thanks for sharing with us.

@hakugakusan Год назад

The orange radio component's LCD screen backlight and tape direction arrow lights use mini incandescent light bulbs in this model. Since these consume a lot more than LEDs, it makes sense to disable them to prolong the battery life. Also, interesting fact, the CD player's vacuum fluorescent display is actually green but the red filter screen makes it look white.

@wrockage Год назад

that is a gorgeous system and super interesting, thanks for sharing!

@sheldonlatimer6688 Год назад

You have a lot of nice equipment, thanks for the videos you put out

@stevesstuff1450 Год назад

That's gorgeous; either on mains, or battery!! 👍 Thanks for that lovely trip down nostalgia lane... 😊

@brainache555 Год назад

I love Sonys APM speakers even the cheapest ones sounds great. I have the flagship ones never selling them. APM stands for accurate pistonic motion. They have flat "cones" and look very different from regular drivers

@psychedalek Год назад

ha, I thought it was Aluminium Pistonic Motion

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Loving the CD player with it’s illuminated ‘Compact Disc Digital Audio’ logo. Very eighties! 💿

@mikeg8835 Год назад

Thanks for bringing that to us Matt.

@glonch Год назад

That is awesome... I had the FH-606R when I was stationed in the Phillippines. It was great - paired it with a Toshiba XR-P9 CD player. Having that wedge CD player on the top was the bomb. A nice side benefit of the brackets - I eventually attached them to the sides of my wooden CD holders to hold the speakers much farther apart - perfect stereo separation.

@SUCRA Год назад

Wonderful system. I love the way these things were designed.

@MADPINGVIN4646 Год назад

YOUR CHANNEL IS THE ONLY CHANNEL I HAVE SEEN 100,PERCENT OF !!!

@stephenswift9868 Год назад

Much lust for this! When I was 15 and now when when I’m 53. So many lights!

@chrissimons9733 Год назад

I cannot believe you have all those components. I was lucking to have the mark 3 with the turn table and the cd. My favourite feature was the flat diaphragm square speakers. This unit was so heavy, and the D size batteries didn't last long when you turned up the volume. It was a well-made system, and it had a great sound.

@JudgeCrater22 Год назад

That Sony boombox audio system is from the good old days, when you owned LPs, audio cassettes and CDs. Now, with streaming audio vendors like Apple, Spotify and Sirius, "you will own nothing."