Hey I actually worked with Robin Moore! He used to come tell stories at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia every week when I volunteered there. He may still. The guy is an awesome harp player too.
My mom had one of these in her office that we got from Target. Last year she brought it back home because she found she wasn't using it while in her office. It works for an office environment where you can't turn the volume up loud as to disturb others, but it doesn't work if you're looking for excellent sound quality.
Dunno, but I did find this book: books.google.com/books?id=JPcoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&lpg=PT102&dq=hooker+trying+to+hack+into+her+medical+records&source=bl&ots=2eoxwzA_Qv&sig=mtwsoAEpssArj0stef3E9jAn9Ck&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYu_acj6LZAhVPxmMKHceYAGYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=hooker%20trying%20to%20hack%20into%20her%20medical%20records&f=false lol
I actually like these small round CD/Cassette/Radio boomboxes. My favorite will always be the Sony CFD-E75 in all those funky colors it came in including the "Psyc" purple/blue scheme. Right now I own the Sony CFD-S70 that Techmoan reviewed except I actually love it. I got an open box unit for $35 and it was worth every single penny. Thank you Kevin for doing reviews on radios like these.
Good timing. LGR also posted a video, so I get a double feature. You can easily find replacement antennas for that, as they are pretty standard. I have scrapped many radios while volunteering for a charity.
I've got the Panasonic boombox mentioned at the end. I really like it. It has some additional features not found on the Sonys. I believe it was made specifically for the European market as it included an American plug adaptor. You also have to reset the FM tuner for American frequencies.
Let's call it a CD Boom-Pill-Box That Cassette of Easy Listening Music reminds me of my Dads favorite radio station in the 1970's WRFM .. Beautiful Music.. Miss you Daddy!
Those Maxell UR cassettes are surprisingly good for normal bias tapes. One of the mixtapes I found at a garage sale was recorded on a UR tape and the sound quality just blew my mind. I actually did a video of it a few days ago. That Jensen unit reminds me of the ultra cheap Venturer CD/cassette player I got for my 10th birthday, way back in 1995. Played the hell out of my Billy Joel discs on that thing. "Tell Her About It" with absolutely no bass or treble...mm-hmm.
Steve F If you saw Tony’s (aka “Cassette Comeback”) video, he did a review of the Maxell UR cassettes and these were not the US versions, these were the international versions with a different artwork and design with a globe on there. Go check it out. czcams.com/video/lg7g67v-LkU/video.html
Most of the cd players in this kind of units are using the same chasis. It was simply plug and play and you could easily replace the whole cd player mechanism including the motor and board. The trouble with this kind of laser pick-up is not the lens. you could clean that easily with a cotton swab. The problem is that by design the laser diode/pickup is placed parallel to the cd, so there is a small mirror inside the laser assembly which "bends" the laser 90 degrees so it is perpendicular to the cd. That damn mirror gets incredibly dirty quite fast and to clean it you have to take the whole thing apart with a high chance of getting poor results.
I had (Mom has it now) a Sharp boombox from 1992. I feel nostalgic for its DC-bias recording sound. I did eventually add an AC oscillator and it worked fine. Ehhh teenage years.
The W Network commercial told me that it was a Canadian station. Oh wow, how deep if your love in that Muzac style. We have a station here VOWR that actually plays that stuff throughout the day. In laws love it and torture is when they have it on the car stereo. . Cool,you played a bit of Alan Doyle.
Got a near identical Craig Branded one for free at my local dump’s free store. It has a September 2020 date at the bottom and had never been used as there was still cardboard protector sitting in the cd mechanism. Really feels cheap, no headphone jack either. But honestly it’s the rare thrift find for me where the cassette player actually works without me having to open it up and do something. I suppose those belts haven’t disintegrated in the less than 2 years of its existence. It’s so small I’ll keep it around for the shop. Wish it was louder though.
I have one of these, and after making some adjustments to the potentiometer on the tape mechanism I was able to make it go at the correct speed! There's still the occasional crackle of interference for some reason but it's far and few between
@@georgefedee6271 If you open it up, there is a cylindrical motor that powers the mechanism. With the right sized philips-head screwdriver you should be able to adjust the speed
@Vwestlife, today I bought a CD-545 for $6 in near-mint condition at a local Goodwill. The manufacturing date on my CD-545 is September 2016. I'll list some more observations below, but I had a question for you: can the Aux In be used to connect a microphone for recording? My CD-545 functions as you described. The cassette speed is fast, so musical pitch is shifted upward. The cassette playback doesn't exhibit an abnormal amount of wow and flutter or speed variance when playing piano music, it's merely off-pitch. The speakers seem to buzz sometimes. I don't know if the buzzing speaker sound reflects amplifier clipping, or if CD-545 was damaged (abused) by the prior owner. Visually my CD-545 looks brand-new and included the original AC power cable. Glad I saw your video, I was confused about the tuning since it worked but I had expected to see the station frequency on the digital display. Overall sound quality is adequate, build quality is adequate, CD player functions, cassette player functions.
Go on eBay and get a Sony boombox for a cheap price I got me a Sony boombox for $35 I bid on it looks like new it had the remote control it sounds loud CDs player works good cassette player also works good fm am you name it I went lucky go try and find a good boombox I remember the one I got the price back then was $199.99 I think they were making a bid to go higher than. $35 but lucky me got it for that price I would give them $100 but $35 was the price
It would be fine if this radio cassette CD player could read mp3 files from CD. Anyways, it sounds somehow good for a nearly average audition. Now, let me thank you very much! I really appreciate what you do by introducing such audio equipment.
I want to see what DAC that thing is using and if you can get higher quality line out. I'd like to see someone run benchmarks on audio equipment. Like how much audio quality is lost from the source media. This is probably incredibly difficult to measure without some really high-end audio recorder.
I always see Sony Boomboxes at the Goodwill for cheap, most of them worked when I tested them, my last one was from the goodwill had a great tape deck on it but my Dads cat peed on it and I didnt know I was away all weekend so it got ruined, it was a CD/Tape and radio now the one I have I found at a garage sale for 5 it is just CD and Radio but I lost my tapes anyways it is a sony as well. I find Sony Boomboxes tend to sound great. I like the styles of ones from the late 90's to early 00's mine is a 2005 S2 and it has a very unique design thats why its my favorite right now. That Panasonic one is really good from what I hear but seriously I have never seen a Sony Boombox at a thrift shop for more then ten bucks and Sony's seem to last forever unless a cat pees on them lol
18:36 downfall quality cassette and am station.* Came here for the tape control's. Thank You! Been using mainly as CD player,and not functioning,so trying to see if can use cassette for music needs. I like this small size.
2:48 What's the frequency Kenneth, I mean Kevin? 8:14 man, you brought back old memories about those truly annoying things, the top CD case stickers. 12:45 Oooooh! Nooooo Think of the children, the childreeeeen! 19:50 No! I don't want a free U2 song, well I'll make an exception because this is a good one. 🙂
Background noise is due to the fact that more than likely this boombox uses a permanent erase magnet instead of an Actual AC-BIAS Erase Head to erase the tape while it's recording. Permanent erase magnets tend to record awful, thunder-like noise while erasing the tape. Nowadays, they are either blue or silver. Sony CFD-S70 uses a black permanent erase magnet which surprisingly doesn't sound that bad. Cheap stereo/mono systems usually use blue one.
Hey is that boom box any good also can you do a video on the ordro hdv-z82 camcorder its better than the hdv-z20 that stereodustparticles did it was terrible but I think the hdv-z82 is the best Chinese cam.
I bought one of these new a few months ago. There appears to be no shielding against 2.4GHz when playing the cassette. Press play on that thing with no tape at all in it and put it near a wireless router or microwave oven. Just don't have anything plugged into the headphone jack.
You ought to consider making a series that covers aspects of ur own music interests & history in music (i remember ur video of the FM transmitter \ mini broadcast station scenario that you maintain as a hobby, etc.)... in fact, as soon as I read the comments, I realized many of your other fans we're talking about the music as well,, such as Boz Scaggs "Lowdown," or the "Love Boat Theme" (Kaaahhhnnn 🚀), Oasis connections, and more. ...btw, What is that classic song on ur CD @11:10 ? .... I'm old enough to actually remember that song when it came out -- I had a friend who was a DJ in commercial (FM) radio, and a few gr8 old friends who were on college + public radio back in the 80s 🎧🎶🎼🎹
VWestlife ...thanx, yes that's the song. Btw, I clicked on your link just now and realize I had subscribed to your music channel once many months ago and just have forgotten to go check it out (hah,,signs of old age))... Btw,,,, you really oughta kick around the idea of doing your own 2 or 3-part video story\ documentary on music.. I mean they're all kinds of angles you could take, such as music that you personally like or that got you connected to electronics and radio,, that kind of thing -- I guess I find that kind of local or personal music story to be more compelling than the highly overproduced music documentaries that we've all been inundated by on TV and radio since the 90s, if you follow me..... I don't know if I'm exactly describing this that well.. I'd recently moved back to a city that I lived in 30 years ago and one of the best side benefits is that I've been listening to the public as well as College radio stations that influenced me when I was in my teens and 20s and it's just been great to see the dedicated kind of personal world of music that still thrives on radio in this era of big budget corporate and MTV oversaturation. 🚀
Pure win. Wonderwall, fully functional chinese object with a great brand name plastered on it, and that kid with his professionally shiny , skippy wailing Oasis was beyond superb. Precision tuning, and the efficient requirement of 1 "C" cell, which $ store has this? And it plays crassettes but not for under 8 year old kids.
I have exactly the same model but these in Europe are sold under the brand "mpman",you can check out the models on their site. I assume they are the same generic portable stereos just with a different brand name slapped on it.
Oh man, those cheap "boomboxes" are everywhere, under various brands and styles. This one actually doesn't sound as terrible as a lot of the ones I've seen, but they all have that same crappy tuner. It performs better than I expected though. Richard Mainway's music is the type of stuff you'd hear at an amateur musicians show at a small venue. Maybe he played at such a show and he had a small batch of CDs made to sell there.... and/or maybe not enough people bought the CDs and he moved on from music, and the unsold copies were donated to the thrift store. I've seen that before. The CD is definitely worth a listen though. The CD player probably has the innards from a cheap off-brand Discman, which would explain why it doesn't skip (too much) when shaking it around, and why you have to clip the CD in place. A component CD player not meant to be moved around would skip a lot more than that.
Vwestlife does this have a Hidden microphone for cassette recording? Being DC bias it sounded better than some I have heard, and even better W&F than some!! :)
Oh how ironic, I have my sister's old Spectra boombox that is probably slightly larger than that, the cassette tape deck doesn't work (possibly a burnt out motor), and it also has lots of trouble reading discs.
I have a very similar model (the 550) which has exactly the same features and looks almost identical but NOBODY ever mentions (or seems to notice) the main problem I have with this CD - that it ADDS gaps in between tracks on CD playback. For instance, on a live album you generally have no gaps because there's always applause or a guitarist noodling in between songs, but on THIS CD player, there are 1 second pauses in between the tracks. Or say Dark Side Of The Moon where all of the tracks (normally) flow into each other, but nope - not on this CD player. It has that damn one second gap. (It might be less than a second, but it sure is noticeable and irritating.) Has no one else noticed this???? And for the record, I'm not talking about cd-roms, but retail CDs I've owned for EONS.
Hello there, I just take note about this radio CD cassette player, and it sounds somehow good, even if has less bass. But now, let me ask you a question: does it read mp3's at least from a CD?
My grandma has an RCA RCD175 or similar looking model. I used to use the cassette recorder at the end of the first round of my cassette days (2012 or so) I can't recall if it was good or not. Plus i was recording crappy quality audio to the cassette. I think it was a Fuji Type II, idk where it went! :( I hate these cassette players that have the head and pinch rollers at the top. Makes it difficult to manually clean.
I've had only one experience with this kind of tuner, being on a Technical Pro receiver I bought for real cheap just to see how it sounded. Needless to say I wasn't impressed at all with it, especially being inside of what was sold as a home theater receiver.
Funny my technical pro receiver has a normal digital tuner.... The version on the website however has that kind of dial knob tuner. Lol. For a low end receiver it sounds nice. Better than sony's budget stereo receivers.
CmputrBlu YES : Ricardo M., and his trusted side kick, Tattoo.... Ricardo Montalban later acted as the amazing antagonist,,, Kahn,,, in Star Trek The Wrath of Khan 🎯🚀
I have had a few Jensen things, totally fall apart or just weirdly designed, I had no idea it was a third party from Chicago that distributed them. I love Chicago, but that isn't a great mark of quality.
VWestlife Maybe near the border. Ilive in the center of Israel. There are AM broadcast but very hard to get. Most of the people are using FM or Cable TV / satalite TV to hear Radio. And of course Internet radio
@@yonimmichaeli I've heard 657 kHz IBA Reshet Bet, Tel Aviv, Israel in the Netherlands (University of Enschede WebSDR), Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia (using a real radio; Tecsun PL310 ET during local midnight / grayline) and Eilat WebSDR two years ago, so you must be joking if there's no such thing as an AM station in your country.
@@westelaudio943 AM is still there in Israel as for now, maybe they'll shut down AM broadcasts in a few years but as for now Israel is still on the air. You can hop on the Qatar and Kuwait City WebRX online SDR receiver and monitor their stations during local night time for yourself. The most common Israeli frequencies received is 657 and 1080 kHz.
As soon as i saw this i knew it was crap, I have he same unit here in the UK, different brand And colour, but at least mine was a free trash find! My FM aerial was also broken, the CD skips if you move it, but the tape deck is the worst part, wow & flutter is awful & recording is terrible too.
I guess the quality of the used parts can vary a lot, depending on who supplies these chinese companies that assemble that kind of mini boomboxes. Maybe vwestlife just got a "Monday Device".
She sells C-cells for your CD player.
lmao
VWestlife the type of guy who can receive every radio station from his basement.
LMFAOOOO I know this is 2 years old but this made me laugh
Two years old? Oh how the time flies
It adds a sound of Niagara falls to every recording for free, good stuff :D
Hey I actually worked with Robin Moore! He used to come tell stories at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia every week when I volunteered there. He may still. The guy is an awesome harp player too.
Jensen in the 1970's was a quality car stereo speaker manufacturer. It's a shame it's just a brand name now for cheap Chinese electronics.
Anyway. Here's Wonderwall.
I prefer the Mike Flowers Pops version
It's better than the recently released Apple HomePod just because it's stereo.
TheComputerGuy96 ayy
Nothing soothes my soul like a Disco version of The Love Boat theme...Mahalo!!!
Ahhhhh I love the sound of newly unwrapping sealed CD case 😍
My mom had one of these in her office that we got from Target. Last year she brought it back home because she found she wasn't using it while in her office. It works for an office environment where you can't turn the volume up loud as to disturb others, but it doesn't work if you're looking for excellent sound quality.
I honestly expected worse. It'd be a fine work radio.
..If your work employees wanted to crowd around it.
I could definitely see it at a dishwasher station or something.
I got the radio before and the next that the tape player didn't work.
You review some of the most innocuous electronics. This is why I'm subscribed. I want to know if that hooker ever hacked into her medical records???!!
We want the answers and we want them now!
Thanks for the WTF moment mate lol
Jess Hull me too
Dunno, but I did find this book: books.google.com/books?id=JPcoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&lpg=PT102&dq=hooker+trying+to+hack+into+her+medical+records&source=bl&ots=2eoxwzA_Qv&sig=mtwsoAEpssArj0stef3E9jAn9Ck&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYu_acj6LZAhVPxmMKHceYAGYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=hooker%20trying%20to%20hack%20into%20her%20medical%20records&f=false lol
innocuous
i have never head that word
As always awesome video, i really enjoy the way that go through the features, simple, well edited but nit overproduced.
I actually like these small round CD/Cassette/Radio boomboxes. My favorite will always be the Sony CFD-E75 in all those funky colors it came in including the "Psyc" purple/blue scheme.
Right now I own the Sony CFD-S70 that Techmoan reviewed except I actually love it. I got an open box unit for $35 and it was worth every single penny.
Thank you Kevin for doing reviews on radios like these.
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Good timing. LGR also posted a video, so I get a double feature. You can easily find replacement antennas for that, as they are pretty standard. I have scrapped many radios while volunteering for a charity.
Me: "I'm going to listen to a CD!"
Boombox: "No"
Me: time to listen to a CD.
Boombox: Lol no
I've got the Panasonic boombox mentioned at the end. I really like it. It has some additional features not found on the Sonys. I believe it was made specifically for the European market as it included an American plug adaptor. You also have to reset the FM tuner for American frequencies.
Let's call it a CD Boom-Pill-Box
That Cassette of Easy Listening Music reminds me of my Dads favorite radio station in the 1970's WRFM .. Beautiful Music.. Miss you Daddy!
At 11:10 - When in Rome - The Promise, brilliant track u rarely hear, I've still got the 12 Inch single version of that plus their album as well.
Those Maxell UR cassettes are surprisingly good for normal bias tapes. One of the mixtapes I found at a garage sale was recorded on a UR tape and the sound quality just blew my mind. I actually did a video of it a few days ago. That Jensen unit reminds me of the ultra cheap Venturer CD/cassette player I got for my 10th birthday, way back in 1995. Played the hell out of my Billy Joel discs on that thing. "Tell Her About It" with absolutely no bass or treble...mm-hmm.
Steve F If you saw Tony’s (aka “Cassette Comeback”) video, he did a review of the Maxell UR cassettes and these were not the US versions, these were the international versions with a different artwork and design with a globe on there. Go check it out.
czcams.com/video/lg7g67v-LkU/video.html
11:08 The Audio On The CD Player Is Really fuzzy But Does It Still Skips After The Audio Is Fuzzy It Fades In Back
Most of the cd players in this kind of units are using the same chasis. It was simply plug and play and you could easily replace the whole cd player mechanism including the motor and board. The trouble with this kind of laser pick-up is not the lens. you could clean that easily with a cotton swab. The problem is that by design the laser diode/pickup is placed parallel to the cd, so there is a small mirror inside the laser assembly which "bends" the laser 90 degrees so it is perpendicular to the cd. That damn mirror gets incredibly dirty quite fast and to clean it you have to take the whole thing apart with a high chance of getting poor results.
Can you not just blast a ton of compressed air through it and clean the dust off that mirror? ?
Nope. And you risk damaging the thing. Tee dirt sticks to that mirror so good that the only way to clean it is to rub it off
I had (Mom has it now) a Sharp boombox from 1992. I feel nostalgic for its DC-bias recording sound. I did eventually add an AC oscillator and it worked fine. Ehhh teenage years.
Paul NJ So you converted it from DC Bias to AC? I didn’t even know you could do that!
i love your channel and the "test subjects" you choose ! very interesting old electronics, some i grow up with , old memories!
The W Network commercial told me that it was a Canadian station. Oh wow, how deep if your love in that Muzac style. We have a station here VOWR that actually plays that stuff throughout the day. In laws love it and torture is when they have it on the car stereo. . Cool,you played a bit of Alan Doyle.
Got a near identical Craig Branded one for free at my local dump’s free store. It has a September 2020 date at the bottom and had never been used as there was still cardboard protector sitting in the cd mechanism.
Really feels cheap, no headphone jack either. But honestly it’s the rare thrift find for me where the cassette player actually works without me having to open it up and do something. I suppose those belts haven’t disintegrated in the less than 2 years of its existence.
It’s so small I’ll keep it around for the shop. Wish it was louder though.
An excellent cheap CD boombox! I'm actually impressed.
I have one of these, and after making some adjustments to the potentiometer on the tape mechanism I was able to make it go at the correct speed! There's still the occasional crackle of interference for some reason but it's far and few between
How were you able to adjust the speed?
@@georgefedee6271 If you open it up, there is a cylindrical motor that powers the mechanism. With the right sized philips-head screwdriver you should be able to adjust the speed
I bought one and plays very well thumbs up for alot less than other name brands
My neighbor has this same radio in his garage and it sounds pretty good
@Vwestlife, today I bought a CD-545 for $6 in near-mint condition at a local Goodwill. The manufacturing date on my CD-545 is September 2016. I'll list some more observations below, but I had a question for you: can the Aux In be used to connect a microphone for recording?
My CD-545 functions as you described. The cassette speed is fast, so musical pitch is shifted upward. The cassette playback doesn't exhibit an abnormal amount of wow and flutter or speed variance when playing piano music, it's merely off-pitch. The speakers seem to buzz sometimes. I don't know if the buzzing speaker sound reflects amplifier clipping, or if CD-545 was damaged (abused) by the prior owner. Visually my CD-545 looks brand-new and included the original AC power cable. Glad I saw your video, I was confused about the tuning since it worked but I had expected to see the station frequency on the digital display. Overall sound quality is adequate, build quality is adequate, CD player functions, cassette player functions.
Go on eBay and get a Sony boombox for a cheap price I got me a Sony boombox for $35 I bid on it looks like new it had the remote control it sounds loud CDs player works good cassette player also works good fm am you name it I went lucky go try and find a good boombox I remember the one I got the price back then was $199.99 I think they were making a bid to go higher than. $35 but lucky me got it for that price I would give them $100 but $35 was the price
It would be fine if this radio cassette CD player could read mp3 files from CD. Anyways, it sounds somehow good for a nearly average audition. Now, let me thank you very much! I really appreciate what you do by introducing such audio equipment.
It's a great review, like all your reviews are
can you review this one? Jensen CD AM/FM Radio Boombox with LED display - Black (CD-475)
I want to see what DAC that thing is using and if you can get higher quality line out. I'd like to see someone run benchmarks on audio equipment. Like how much audio quality is lost from the source media. This is probably incredibly difficult to measure without some really high-end audio recorder.
I always see Sony Boomboxes at the Goodwill for cheap, most of them worked when I tested them, my last one was from the goodwill had a great tape deck on it but my Dads cat peed on it and I didnt know I was away all weekend so it got ruined, it was a CD/Tape and radio now the one I have I found at a garage sale for 5 it is just CD and Radio but I lost my tapes anyways it is a sony as well. I find Sony Boomboxes tend to sound great. I like the styles of ones from the late 90's to early 00's mine is a 2005 S2 and it has a very unique design thats why its my favorite right now. That Panasonic one is really good from what I hear but seriously I have never seen a Sony Boombox at a thrift shop for more then ten bucks and Sony's seem to last forever unless a cat pees on them lol
There are versions made by NAXA which have DVD players and Tv screens built in!
18:36 downfall quality cassette and am station.* Came here for the tape control's. Thank You! Been using mainly as CD player,and not functioning,so trying to see if can use cassette for music needs. I like this small size.
The hiss can be avoided on a new cassette. Clip off the magnet eraser head that hisses off before the record/play one.
Selekta Man can you post a video of you getting rid of the hiss
2:48 What's the frequency Kenneth, I mean Kevin? 8:14 man, you brought back old memories about those truly annoying things, the top CD case stickers. 12:45 Oooooh! Nooooo Think of the children, the childreeeeen! 19:50 No! I don't want a free U2 song, well I'll make an exception because this is a good one. 🙂
I swear! I was not the weasel with the fox that day! I figured you'd test that with some Anders Enger Jensen. I guess that was too obvious to do. :P
Background noise is due to the fact that more than likely this boombox uses a permanent erase magnet instead of an Actual AC-BIAS Erase Head to erase the tape while it's recording. Permanent erase magnets tend to record awful, thunder-like noise while erasing the tape. Nowadays, they are either blue or silver. Sony CFD-S70 uses a black permanent erase magnet which surprisingly doesn't sound that bad. Cheap stereo/mono systems usually use blue one.
my philips has a silver one and as far as i'm concerned, no thunder noises
In the Netherlands this design was used in the brand Audiosonic. Auna is the brand in Germany.
Hey is that boom box any good also can you do a video on the ordro hdv-z82 camcorder its better than the hdv-z20 that stereodustparticles did it was terrible but I think the hdv-z82 is the best Chinese cam.
For some reason my CD function will not play. Any advice on troubleshooting?
Try cleaning the lens.
I bought one of these new a few months ago. There appears to be no shielding against 2.4GHz when playing the cassette. Press play on that thing with no tape at all in it and put it near a wireless router or microwave oven. Just don't have anything plugged into the headphone jack.
Glad to see it wasn't the End of your player.
How do you turn it off and on ?
You ought to consider making a series that covers aspects of ur own music interests & history in music (i remember ur video of the FM transmitter \ mini broadcast station scenario that you maintain as a hobby, etc.)...
in fact, as soon as I read the comments,
I realized many of your other fans we're talking about the music as well,,
such as Boz Scaggs "Lowdown," or the "Love Boat Theme" (Kaaahhhnnn 🚀), Oasis connections, and more.
...btw,
What is that classic
song on ur CD @11:10 ?
.... I'm old enough to
actually remember that song when it came out -- I had a friend who was a DJ in commercial (FM) radio,
and a few gr8 old friends who were on college + public radio back in the 80s 🎧🎶🎼🎹
That song is When In Rome - "The Promise". And I have a music channel: czcams.com/users/vwest1ife
VWestlife ...thanx, yes that's the song. Btw, I clicked on your link just now and realize I had subscribed to your music channel once many
months ago and just have forgotten to
go check it out (hah,,signs of old age))...
Btw,,,, you really oughta kick around the idea of doing your own 2 or 3-part video story\ documentary on music..
I mean they're all kinds of angles you could take,
such as music that you personally like or that got you connected to electronics and radio,,
that kind of thing -- I guess I find that kind of local or personal music story to be more compelling than
the highly overproduced music documentaries that we've all been inundated by on TV and radio since the 90s, if you follow me.....
I don't know if I'm exactly describing this that well..
I'd recently moved back to a city that I lived in 30 years ago and one of the best side benefits is that I've been listening to the public as well as College radio stations that
influenced me when I was in my teens and 20s and it's just been great to see the dedicated kind of personal world of music that still thrives on radio in this era of big budget corporate and MTV oversaturation. 🚀
Pure win. Wonderwall, fully functional chinese object with a great brand name plastered on it, and that kid with his professionally shiny , skippy wailing Oasis was beyond superb. Precision tuning, and the efficient requirement of 1 "C" cell, which $ store has this? And it plays crassettes but not for under 8 year old kids.
Huh?
I have exactly the same model but these in Europe are sold under the brand "mpman",you can check out the models on their site.
I assume they are the same generic portable stereos just with a different brand name slapped on it.
What was the name of the song that sead my woman is a fortune teller she tells everything i do
Can you do a review of the Panosonic SA-AK33? It's a big CD player with 2 tape decks one recordable with FM and AM.
Probably not. I don't have much interest in those ugly late '90s/early 2000s stereo systems.
VWestlife okay, thanks. Just wondering
This CD player can play CD audio?
A good pair of amplified computer speakers, and it should sound pretty good. Tape deck sounds clear.
How do you tell the difference between a factory cd and cd r?
Yes. On the playing side, a regular CD is silver while a CD-R has a blueish-purple color.
The cassett of horror stories you played was getting pretty scary..
Oh man, those cheap "boomboxes" are everywhere, under various brands and styles. This one actually doesn't sound as terrible as a lot of the ones I've seen, but they all have that same crappy tuner. It performs better than I expected though.
Richard Mainway's music is the type of stuff you'd hear at an amateur musicians show at a small venue. Maybe he played at such a show and he had a small batch of CDs made to sell there.... and/or maybe not enough people bought the CDs and he moved on from music, and the unsold copies were donated to the thrift store. I've seen that before. The CD is definitely worth a listen though.
The CD player probably has the innards from a cheap off-brand Discman, which would explain why it doesn't skip (too much) when shaking it around, and why you have to clip the CD in place. A component CD player not meant to be moved around would skip a lot more than that.
Just ordered one, a Jensen CD-550, Cool item
Wow I didn't think these were made anymore I thought Jensen only makes car radios now
Vwestlife does this have a Hidden microphone for cassette recording? Being DC bias it sounded better than some I have heard, and even better W&F than some!! :)
No built-in microphone.
I hear wolves howling on the fullmoon tape lol
1st track is Boz? I'm glad I subscribed 👍👍
George Rios that was classic 🎯🍺🍸
Oh how ironic, I have my sister's old Spectra boombox that is probably slightly larger than that, the cassette tape deck doesn't work (possibly a burnt out motor), and it also has lots of trouble reading discs.
You can actually replace the broken radio antenna
I remember having a crappy stereo like that, but the brand was different and it didn't have a cassette player.
I have a very similar model (the 550) which has exactly the same features and looks almost identical but NOBODY ever mentions (or seems to notice) the main problem I have with this CD - that it ADDS gaps in between tracks on CD playback. For instance, on a live album you generally have no gaps because there's always applause or a guitarist noodling in between songs, but on THIS CD player, there are 1 second pauses in between the tracks. Or say Dark Side Of The Moon where all of the tracks (normally) flow into each other, but nope - not on this CD player. It has that damn one second gap. (It might be less than a second, but it sure is noticeable and irritating.) Has no one else noticed this???? And for the record, I'm not talking about cd-roms, but retail CDs I've owned for EONS.
Still sell them today without the tape deck no recording feature
this is late but can you record from laptop to cassette using an aux cord?
Yes.
Top loading CD players have always been incredibly buggy and troublesome because of dirt, but no one ever seemed to care too much…
Hello there, I just take note about this radio CD cassette player, and it sounds somehow good, even if has less bass. But now, let me ask you a question: does it read mp3's at least from a CD?
No.
Boz Skaggs' Lowdown!
edcollante ..as soon as I heard that song, I was hitting thumbs up 🍺🍸
Just looking at it, I can tell that the Sony CFD-S70 is gonna be a heck of a lot better.
19:31 So you saw that post too?
Looks like a Philips model may be came out of the same factory rebranded
My grandma has an RCA RCD175 or similar looking model. I used to use the cassette recorder at the end of the first round of my cassette days (2012 or so) I can't recall if it was good or not. Plus i was recording crappy quality audio to the cassette. I think it was a Fuji Type II, idk where it went! :(
I hate these cassette players that have the head and pinch rollers at the top. Makes it difficult to manually clean.
I've had only one experience with this kind of tuner, being on a Technical Pro receiver I bought for real cheap just to see how it sounded. Needless to say I wasn't impressed at all with it, especially being inside of what was sold as a home theater receiver.
Funny my technical pro receiver has a normal digital tuner.... The version on the website however has that kind of dial knob tuner. Lol. For a low end receiver it sounds nice. Better than sony's budget stereo receivers.
Boz Scaggs > Richard Mainway. By far.
The video title tricked my, i was seriously(!) expecting something from Anders Enger Jensen
15:20 rage over stop button 😄
on every boombox I've ever had with a top loader CD, the CD is the first thing to stop working
Should call that cover Wonderpuke.
Create Big Sea, Good choice!
*Great
Sounded like the love boat lol great video as always, be good for a cheap work radio
Pauly H Exactly,,, I can imagine Tatoo...and..Kahhhhhnnn
That's Fantasy Island you're thinking of no? :)
CmputrBlu YES : Ricardo M., and his trusted side kick, Tattoo.... Ricardo Montalban later acted as the amazing antagonist,,, Kahn,,, in Star Trek The Wrath of Khan 🎯🚀
If Little Red Riding Hood had a CD player, this would be it.
You can find Richard Mainway on SoundCloud(I searched him up).
Same here that's what I did
I haven't heard Boz Scaggs in like forever.
I have had a few Jensen things, totally fall apart or just weirdly designed, I had no idea it was a third party from Chicago that distributed them. I love Chicago, but that isn't a great mark of quality.
them tapes be very handy for blind people to listen to.
I got that that from target
Ahhh, "The Love Boat theme."
5:22 you never here that song on the radio anymore
In Israel you cann't recieve an AM broadcast, so it's more logical to have the FM first when the switch is muli-functio.
I'm sure you can receive something on AM at night, such as the 2 megawatt signal on 1521 kHz from Saudi Arabia!
VWestlife Maybe near the border. Ilive in the center of Israel. There are AM broadcast but very hard to get. Most of the people are using FM or Cable TV / satalite TV to hear Radio. And of course Internet radio
@@yonimmichaeli I've heard 657 kHz IBA Reshet Bet, Tel Aviv, Israel in the Netherlands (University of Enschede WebSDR), Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia (using a real radio; Tecsun PL310 ET during local midnight / grayline) and Eilat WebSDR two years ago, so you must be joking if there's no such thing as an AM station in your country.
@@HBC101TVStudios
Maybe not anymore. Many countries have no more AM stations. Germany for example has none. The last one has been shut down years ago.
@@westelaudio943 AM is still there in Israel as for now, maybe they'll shut down AM broadcasts in a few years but as for now Israel is still on the air.
You can hop on the Qatar and Kuwait City WebRX online SDR receiver and monitor their stations during local night time for yourself.
The most common Israeli frequencies received is 657 and 1080 kHz.
Looks like they based this on old Philips model may came out of the same Chinese factory
As soon as i saw this i knew it was crap, I have he same unit here in the UK, different brand And colour, but at least mine was a free trash find!
My FM aerial was also broken, the CD skips if you move it, but the tape deck is the worst part, wow & flutter is awful & recording is terrible too.
noice!
Jensen is best name
It didn't have much wow and flutter on the cassette playback.👍
I guess the quality of the used parts can vary a lot, depending on who supplies these chinese companies that assemble that kind of mini boomboxes. Maybe vwestlife just got a "Monday Device".
That CD seems like something you'd see on Jimmy Fallon's "Do not Play List".
It seems to be good just don’t play tapes on cd mode because it will chew the tape up. Trust me I know
So... You can basically buy creepypasta's on tape, when there are thousands of them on youtube. XD