please specify what kind of bass is to your prefrance...related to boomboxes....

I like a rich deep warm bass bass (frequancies under 60 hz...the lower the better)

boxes like the aiwa 880 crown 970 and m90 kaboom hifi studio are good at this...the jvc pcx 200 wins for me though...it is ultra low...and you dont need the volume set above  number 2 to get that rich deep effect without disterbing the neighbours..(not realy into loud music these days anyway) must be getting old hehe...if anything the bass on this box is aproaching bloated....but god i love it...

boxes like the pioneer 909 have lots of bass but it lacks the richness and depth(lowest is 100 hz...and enything any lower it fails to diliver..(loved the 909 for the rich highs...but sadly i just couldnt live with the hollow bass)

lastly the m70 was a big let down for me...yes it has passible bass but i found the volume needed to be set at anound half way to get any benifit

boxes like the m80 gf555 forget it...

anyway over to you guys...what are you're prefrances in the bass department

For boomboxes, I like the bass a little higher than 60Hz.

Maybe around 100Hz? Low enough to give an impressive thump, but high enough to not be a big power drain & a tricky acoustic challenge.

The smaller amps in boomboxes are less able to handle the really low, rich bass, especially when running on batteries when available power is limited. Also, the speaker systems (such as JVCs Hyper Bass, Hitachi's ASW, etc.) created to deal with these lower frequencies often run out of puff early. They do sound great at lower volumes however.

In the later 80s popular music genres (metal, rock, soul, hip-hop, etc.) started to have more low bass in it, so it became more important. 

As for bass at home or in the car? The lower, the better 

how ya doin iso....i kind of agree on the hyper bass thing....i have about 6 jvc various different models and they are as you state...but this jvc pc 200 (hyperbass thing is obsene it's sitting here half volume perfect.....im almost temted to sell some of my grails to pay bills because nothing can tuch it...you know me i love boomboxes for all sorts of reasons like everyone..but sound is my most IMPORTANT crteria.......granted it isn't 1000 watts...but its plenty loud enough...my mate came over and was TOTALLY blown away...he thought i was using one of my stack systems..while standing at my front door...it truly does put out 60 hrtz if not abit lower...

onto another subject...the kaboom....i dont have one anymore..but at some places i have heard the kaboom and the sound has been mind boggling the bass has been so good...but at my current dwelling it just sounded good...but not like a k's worth of stack system...so i sold all my kabooms......boxes like the m90 have sounded good whereaver i have been...and this jvc 200 too...it isn't a new descovery...but for some reason the 200 ended up in my shed and i had forgotten all about it

My favorite would be the bi-amped PANASONIC RX-DT680

I bought one new back in the 1990's and it had the most impressive sound all around compared to any other boombox i've ever owned.

good mornin chris.....yea i have abou 7 in that series...including the 680...it truly is a great machine...i do prefure the ones without cd though....thats the only drawback with this jvc...it has bloody cd haha...if only cd were as easy to repair as changing some belts

it depends what music i am listening to regarding bass love it some times low and deep , the b90,  680 , 9494, tpr-950 , surprised how good the 9595 sounds you dont always need to spend big money to sound good .

yes trebble is also very important....thats why boxes like the m90 dt680 are so damn good...this jvc is exallent to ...another reason i sold my kabooms....i found the trebble responce usles on cassett...on cd it was pretty much ok...but cassette was awful....and most of my tapes are origional

never had a 9595 but i would like one chris...always liked the looks...everytime i think of buying one they go for stupid money...unlike you...what was it 25 quid

yeah reno 9595 was in better condition than i thought , i knew the tuner board was faulty but i had a spare board from one i bought from car boot ages ago ,  a good scrub up 3 belts de-mag head clean alls good .  one more thing rewind was in-op found a small cog had teeth missing but had one on spare deck winner

to chris 69

you probbly mean the dt707 used to love mine...have a mint boxed one and a beater...my mate also loved the 707...cant stand it now....my mate heard the 707 like usual he liked it...then he heard my hyper bass thing.....huge frown on the 707 lol...im prolly gunna stick it on ebay...i just cant see me using it again...mind you the surround is impressive....

dell your not the only bargin hunter...here is my latest deal...prolly wont like it like the pioneer 909...but 30 quid these days is nowt...yea not in good condition tho

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3804...id=p3984.m1497.l2649

always liked the looks...just curious

nice one on the 9595 dell lad

i had my eye on that mate but the lcd screen has bad bleed on it so left it alone .

yea only bought it out of curiosity dell...i prolly wont like it but i like the looks...i'll prolly pass it on to sombody else.....with people paying 3 k for 1 box..who cares about a lousy display lol

its the best egg ever made chris but next to this jvc 200 it just sounds crap..sorry guys...im not sure what to do with my mint boxed one...i may keep it dunno...it used to sound nice.....but all the boxes im getting just keep sounding better and better...making it REALY hard to listen to the less bassy ones lol....i mean i used to totally love the jvc pc55...but everytime i turn it on it's like where is the bass lol...and the 55 was a HUGE HOLY grail of mine

FREE BASE

base jumpers

ace of base

base jumpers is a better game....tried it haha

i didn't mind freebasing as a game

base rate after today

well we were playing basejumpers yrs ago...i was upstairs...and very ill..my friend said you can make your own way down....i took him and the game far to litrally....and i made it down haha...no stairs involved.....i can laugh now but god i was in pain for months....fond memories hehe

homebase

bassline

depends what tunes im playing to be honest..heart and soul by joy division tells me if my box can handle it

 ah joy division  unknown pleasures great album

can't say burning my lips on a coke can was a laugh

I like warm bass, but it usually comes at the expense of tightness

For example:  Aiwa TPR-950, and Telefunken Studio 1......great at warm bass, bad at tight bass

GE 3-6035.......great at tight bass, bad at warm bass

I find the 767 and 777 to have nice bass too, tho it depends on what music you are listening too,  if you standing about 3 or 4 feet from the radio at half volume , 

ich bin von den crowns begeistert sei es der 950 oder der 850 oder der 980

auch der 945 war nicht zu verachten

dann bekam ich den rising 20/20 der hat auch einen satten sound und tolllen bass

aber das beste geräte was den bass betrifft habe ich jetzt bekommen den 970

würde ich gerne direkt mal mit einen m90 vergleichen aber diesen besitze ich leider (noch) nicht

ich höre damit bevorzugt house musik club sounds,trance und auch 80iger und classik R n B so was wie in der Beat street zeit aktuell war

aber am liebsten eben club sounds da gibt es sehr viele tiefe bässe und das klingt

auf einen rising oder eben jetzt 970 einfach nur hammer geil

bitte selber übersetzen danke

I Like all kinds of bass, miami bass, techno bass, dubstep bass,..... but my favorite is the 80s bass...that punchy 808 drum machine bass....i dont like the 90s bass....many of the tracks of then where very distorted and muffled....

I could never get into this bass.

I like my beat to be kicking, not drowning in it's own bass.

bass is bass set it how ya like it

We got the juice by the Attitude first song I blasted on my JVC RC M90 August 1983 . Heavy Bass  

you would have stolen the show with an m90 back then cman....i used to take my jvc dc33l to school in about 84...i sometimes had 1000 kids follow me...it would have been unbelievable with an m90...i don't have one now but used to take one out....people used to get there cameras out all sorts.....it was like a portable rave machine

True Radio Raheem ...I was the second guy around to have the 90 a buddy of mine had one as well ..one night in front of the arcade we linked them together and a unschedule street party took place. This was the jam we were blasting....

my sharp cd x12-but at the mo its coming out of 1 speaker only,so can only emagine how good it will sound on 2

haha.....way back in the day hen i had 5 m90's i did the same sort of thing with 2 of them...the power was insane....great times ...and great tune btw