Hey all, haven't stopped by in a while.
I work for Fuji and they sent me to Japan on a business trip in February. So of course I wanted to check out Turbosonic. The owners have started a new shop called Charm Wags. It sells dog toys/supplies and the proceeds benefit animal rescue/shelters. There is a relatively small Turbosonic display in the shop, but there are a lot of gems there. They are not for sale. Turbosonic mainly does a rental business now. They rent out boomboxes for filming, art installations, etc. They will take orders for boomboxes and charge 50% of the original retail price. I only saw the retail location, not the warehouse I heard about.
Anyway here are the pictures on Flickr. Check them out! Turbosonic pics
My coworkers also took me to Akihabara and I saw some cool gear in some of the shops there. Here are a couple of nice small-to-mid-sized ones: Sony and Sanyo
If you would like more info on Charm Wags, check out their website: http://charmwags.com/
Rob

some very nice pics there...I heard alot about turbosonic in this forum and other forums...the others seem very nice and cordial

great pics rpm.......thanks for sharing....did you bring any boxes back ? or even better, can you get stuff sent over from yahoo japan auctions.....that would be great

Very nice boxes and pictures. Thanks for posting.

Boy, I'd sure love to get my hands on that McKenzie!!! That double-cassette deck, and those quad speakers, send shivers up my spine!!!

That would definately be an attention getter at the park!!! Nice pics!!!

'NUFF SAID

Hey all,
I did not get any boomboxes in Japan unfortunately, the prices were quite high at retail locations. I got a couple of cheap broken laptops and I got a Princeton paper boombox NXT speaker. I have not put it together yet, it's still unopened.

Thanks for posting