miss the early days

@Boodokhan has a real thing to this LP2GO, but that one has linear tracking arm (I think) and costs a bit more

 

there is only one TT. thats the EMT r80s
or emt 950 with ikeda arm with external phone amp. the 950 is perhaps the best TT there is, but debate with r80. yep, prefer that one far more than the 927. forget the 930.

 

The Ion portable turntable is not a good one. In my opinion do not waste your money. Sound burger and Sony PS-5 or PS-9 are good options but difficult to find one in decent shape and good price. I have multiple of sound burgers and two PS-f5 (as @Jorge mentioned) and all work fine.
By the way where did you read about new sound burger/ version 2???

 

i know, i posted this before - but again here's the 60'es version:

 

it is from 1960 british made, battery-powered (4x babycell), i make more pics later, unfortunately have to work now

 

It's a synergy. People going after vintage items are willing to spend on them more than they're objectively worth, collectors extolling the "quality" of their "grails" with hyperbolic descriptions establish hierarchies of value, resellers who want to capitalize on all that rise their prices, higher and higher ebay & paypal commissions push prices up...

...and then it's a loop, and the process starts anew, and it extends beyond the net. I find most of my boomboxes in the wild, and until recently I used to spend a trifle on them. Recently however everybody is starting to ask for more: they've smartphones, look on ebay for reference, do a google search of the model number, stumble across facebook groups, and there you go.

If you have a look at the average prices of a JVC RC M90 in 2010 and do a quick comparison with today's, you'll be stunned. I think of a critical episode when all the variables of the above-described process came together: the skyrocketing of an auction that peaked up to about $5.000 for a boxed-but-not-new specimen. Hence the paradox: now crappy, non working M90s cost more -- I estimate one third more -- than a new full working one 7 years ago.

 

I was looking on MP also

 

Wonder if anyone has a "soundwagon" in their collection? It is soo cool!
SOUNDWAGON

 

...i got one ;-)

 

Awesome! I want to be a five-year old again! ..."Miss the Early Days" indeed...


In my collection of dozen+ "Wish You Were Here" I have one in marble-colored vinyl. Its time to get this VW and check if it stays still while "driving" on a rotating marble platter



And here is Soundwagon reincarnated: LOVE

 

I was just telling another member about years ago on here...i tried to sell a fully working m90 on here for £250 and nobody wanted it lol

i could be wrong but i think most people only want these ol radios because they are worth more than money these days

 

I wonder how long ago that was. My theory is that when it comes to gadgets there are less new "must have" items to buy these days especially when most people get things like mobile phones and PVRs included with a contract. Although I am not a particularly early adopter my first DVD player cost £140, followed a couple of years later by a DVD / Hard disk recorder for £350. Somehow I have now acquired four DVD / Hard Disk recorders the most recent being a comparable Sony one from a charity shop for £10. Two Humax PVRs mean I don't really use any of them any longer.

I don't have much hope of them becoming collectors items soon. However, I can always hope. I remember once seeing a Betamax video recorder for sale with the label
"Star Wars Tape £5 - Free VCR included" Have a look at the price of working Betamax VCRs go for on Ebay nowadays.

 

That would be about 8 to 10 years ago Longman, m90's have always fetched quite a lot but nobody wanted mine lol

 

Thanks for clarifying.

Ten years ago you would have been competing against the newly launched iPhone and a whole range of iPods.
People who wanted to blast their music might have been looking at a brand new JVC Kaboom which would play their Cassettes and CDs and come with a remote control and guarantee for around the same price you were asking. From what people say sound quality of the Kaboom is good. The only time I have heard one it was being used for background music in a large school hall.

Showing how quickly things become obsolete and almost worthless I passed on a Kaboom for £15 last month at a charity shop. I was quite excited when I saw it, but on closer examination it was the one with an iPhone dock (with the old 30 pin connector) in place of the cassette and no line in either. The designers probably thought "we've covered the latest technology with the dock and yesterdays technology with the CD player. What more could anyone want ?".

Will I regret not buying it in ten years time? If Stereo2Go is still around I can imagine someone writing about the amazing antique Kaboom complete with a CD player for their antique media which they had just bought for £500. In another post Deech will be showing pictures of all the Smartphones and Bluetooth speakers he has seen at the Athens market