1983 Sanyo Model M9935K Boombox

An upper entry-level Sanyo boombox from the real boombox era that sounds great!

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[tallboyyyy]

I used to have this exact boombox. I bought it new in the summer of 1982 at Bradlees. I think I got it for $149 on sale from $169. It used to eat batteries so I asked for 6 D rechargeable batteries for my birthday and never had to buy batteries for it again. I had it all through college. Unfortunately I had it in the trunk of my car when I was rear ended at a stop light and the side of the case got broken into several pieces. I glued it back together and it wasn't pretty but it still worked. I had it until the summer of 1989 when the dial cord broke. I had to take the back off and manually tune it to my favorite station and leave it there. Shortly after that it got stolen.

[oldradiosnphonographs]

The amount they want for some of these things on eBay! I’m glad I got my JVC RC-M70 for free back in 2006.

[vwestlife]

That was amazing hearing Al Stewart on shortwave!

[IAmNotAFunguy]

The great thing about that era is that you didn't need to spend money on a good product. Even the low-end junk like Sanyo was still a well-built product that was designed to last forever!

[peelarat]

Great radio I had when I was 15 ... I bought one to restore and it takes me back ... good sounding radio

[thiscorrosion]

Got one of these beauties in '83 at my local flea market, tested it with the XDR cassette of Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind (what else), sounded great, took it home. This boombox
was like my main music machine for a year or two, even added some extra bookshelf speakers to the ext. outputs and put it on a shelf
in my bedroom, some Radio Shack Realistics, which to me sounded
a bit better than the built-ins. The speakers in this thing were punchy but of course, lacked any real sub-bass. Some of the other boomboxes with detachables
seemed to me to sound a bit better or fuller, maybe. Maybe they were higher output. It at least didn't sound tinny, due to those decent horn tweeters. I remember
bringing it home and unpacking it from the big cardboard box and foam packing thing, it was such a thrill.

Then by later 1984 I got myself a Sanyo full rack system and paid it off over a year. I still had this boombox in working condition
but gave it to a friend of mine in the later 1990s and that was that. Still had some of my Pink Floyd stickers on the rear! We used to carry it 'round our LI NY nabe
and I'd blast U2, Floyd, The Who, and Cars tapes all over the place. I recall my friend Erik and I also got a phone pickup mic and we did some ridiculous prank calls
and stuff using the boombox. We called some stupid phone sex line and the girl in the precorded teaser was like "oh, baby, it's responding! (and you heard Erik and I
on the tape commenting "yep, it's responding)". Was also good for recording WLIR FM radio concerts and bootlegs and stuff like that.

[ngendamubita]

yes the tuner string was a big problem, i had to re-string it all the time

[TheRadiogeek]

Cool boombox. I wish you could get something nice like that today. ❤️📻

[EmersonCollie]

Very nice! These were considered a lower end, and that was only because of the cassette deck being basic. (No metal settings, and it was DC bias). But most played pre-recorded metal cassette tapes in them anyways. In those days. If it was loud, and sounded good. It was good enough.

[robertestes]

The way the automatic music search works on those type players is the black spots in between the songs it searches for black spots

[marini]

what kind of music is that, what song at the end of the movie? Because I like it a lot and I don't find shazam.

[ErikPAPATIE]

Last year im found one abandoned in dump and the cue and rewiew is stuck same model and im refix it and working

[Dehacked]

How did you get it apart? I'm stuck at the tuner know. Did it pop up and off?

[munchykid]

Im wondering, is there a way to disable or cut the autostop function? Wondering cuz i have a bluetooth cassette tape and since its “fake tape” it autostops the tape sadly

[Odessia-ijys]

Looks like a Panasonic model i got even if it's a Sanyo