The Last Boomboxes

JVC still sells a big loud portable CD Radio - it’s one of the last true boomboxes.

I bought my JVC RV-NB300DAB direct from the JVC website - it seemed to be the best deal.

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[admiralandersen]

I bought a JVC boom box back in 2001. It died in 2022. It has been on every vacation, every year since I bought it, so we held a wake when it died.
It will be missed.

[nicik]

Seeing the muppets return is like hearing from an old friend. Always a pleasure

[azreth]

i'll never forget the scene in the James Bond film 'The living Daylights' where a Boombox turns into a rocket launcher. After it blows up a wall M turns to Bond and says "Something we're making for the Americans. It's called a ghetto blaster."

[rosseastman]

This thing looks designed for exercise classes and maybe dance classes. This makes a lot of features make sense, including the reliance on the remote and the fairly plain colour language

[Daniel-]

It’s weird that we have advanced technology and a mono Bluetooth speaker with only streaming capability is the gold standard for portable audio

[whispertron]

Couple of months ago I repaired a Hitachi boombox made in 1977. Dropped in a bluetooth cassette adapters, loaded it with D-cells, and proceeded to blow my friends' minds with the sound quality. It just sounds so much better than a normal bluebooth speaker, and has a way cooler stage presence with its working VU meters, dials and switches.

[TheOnjLouis]

Always a great day when you get a mention in a Techmoan video. Many thanks.
‘Not Just Garden Variety’ is quite a bass-test, it’s one of the ones I use myself when testing new speakers and of course, no content-match.
That’s the second track of mine you played, for those reading the comments.

Thank you sir.

[bunnythekid]

If there was ever a feature missing from the original boom boxes, it was the unintelligible PA announcement echo function

[justinpipes]

Oh WOW! I had a JVC Kaboom box back in the year 2000. It looked basically just like this and cost me $300 back then. The model back then had a tape player and guitar/mic input. It didn't have a DAB or the lights though. They've been updating this basic design since the 90s. This is an amazing thing to see on a Sunday morning 24 years later.

[mrcaboosevg]

Ghetto blaster = listening to rap in New York
Boombox = listening to Spice Girls in Straford-Upon-Avon

[mfbfreak]

14:09 rolling shutter effect due to the bass vibrations. That thing is not kidding when it says bass.

[HandyAndyTechTips]

Nearly 42 years after it was first released to the public, the CD is still one of the best consumer audio formats ever invented. It has excellent quality audio, no DRM, and most discs last practically forever. And it's even experiencing a bit of a vinyl-style comeback at the moment, which means that decent quality players - and even boomboxes, by the looks of it - are still available.

[mackpines]

Puppets AND the kitty make an appearance?!

This made my day! 😁❤🐈

[RandomerFellow]

In Sweden they were called bergsprängare
Berg = Mountain
Sprängare = blaster.
I loved them.

[CI_Videos]

Being a teenager in the 1980's I remember the proper Boomboxes. This is the closest I've seen in quite a few years. I remember lugging my 40lbs Boombox on my shoulder and I would hope the batteries would last a couple of hours. It kills me when I look online for one now days and see these cheap dinky things. No audio output, crappy radios and if they have tape decks they sound terrible. I'm glad to see JVC at least trying to revive a bit of the past. I remember back in the 80's and 90's they did make some great sounding units. Matt thanks for keeping the dream alive. I hope designers at some of these companies watch your videos. Maybe they will take the hint.

[KayDat]

Full speed USB 1.1! Haven't seen that spec in a lifetime!

[lemagreengreen]

That need to use the remote to flip through DAB stations is crazy. This is very obviously going to end up sitting on a shelf in workshops etc, that remote is getting lost almost immediately.

You really wonder about some product designers

[compfox]

A friend of mine (German), working in Atlanta, Georgia, entered a shopping mall and wanted to get a "ghettoblaster". She told us, the face of the seller she won't never forget in her life.

[MrSoundman]

This was standard dance studio gear because it had a mic input, was very loud and could be locked in a cupboard.
We had quite a few of these, but ours had no flashy lights and no dab radio. Thanks for the memory as usual!

[shamrockisland]

What do we want ? Getto blaster, when do we want it, 43 years ago. 😂