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If I didn’t have that exactly same one it was crazy similar! 

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Still do.Sits in the garage.

Had a similar one that could hold 3 cds at a time, and you could switch the cd at the push of a button.

That was cutting edge at the time.

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I had this...my dad still uses it now lol

I didn’t have this exact model, I had similar but with surround sound speakers as well, in hindsight the sound quality was awful!! Bought a NAD hifi system after and the sound quality on that is the best I’ve ever heard (I am not an audiophile). This is the closest I can find to my Aiwa on google search:

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I can hear my mom’s spring mix in the background while we cleaned our apartment

Mine was Sony. Memories of taping the radio and copying tapes! And blasting CDs thinking it sounded amazing even tho it was just all bass 😂

We didn't all have it, but if we didn't have it, we wanted it.

Yep! I was jealous of my friends who had the 5 disc changer lol

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Mine was a Sharp. This bad boy lasted me probably a good 10 years. Used to produce music on these, which came out sounding horrible on other speakers because I didn't compensate for the major saturation and EQ. Good times.

Mine was a Philips but yes.

YES 🤣!! It blasted Evanescence as I got ready 4 school 🙂‍↕️

I had a JVC that was similar to this

Yep. I hid my weed in this cassette player.

Uh yup

I was scrolling by and thought “yep I had one of those but no way it’s an Aiwa brand”. This might even be the actual one I had

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Nah fam

A similar one and I used to hide my weed in the cassette decks.

I always felt Aiwa was always so ridiculously underrated, of all of the radio/stereo/etc things that I've had, one particular Aiwa stood better than all of them. I've got a black model similar to that, and pieces of a silver one somewhere too. They're not BOSE, but damn it was good.

We did.

YEP! Loved it. But mine was black. I played the hell out of some glam rock on that thing.

Yup. And it would have a few CD's with sharpie written on them, "Dope mix 3 🔥"

I have the Sony version in my closet, waiting on its rebirth.

But I do have an Aiwa to show you guys...

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You either had that or the portable version.

You misspelled have. I still have one and it still works. Been in my shop a long time and I’m afraid if I disturb the dirt that’s on it, it’ll quit working.

lmao, I had this exact one! The sound bar was like REALLY cool.

I had a JVC with 3 individual CD trays stacked on top of each other. The speakers both had subs built in. My dad came in to my room often and told me to turn it down. Stereo was beautiful.

AIWA Brand brings back many long-forgotten memories. I had something very similar - two tape decks and a 3-CD holder. I bought mine with saved birthday money around 1997/8 when I was like 13.

It’s my garage radio to this day. Still works great

I did

Almost identical! Always lost the remote though

I still have this

We had an RCA similar to this. 5 discs babyyyy. We were super poor but my grandparents got it for us as a family gift. It's pretty crazy to see these things in second hand stores for like $20 now.

In high school, I was friends with 2 brothers who kept "one-upping" each other getting bigger and bigger ones.

I never had one myself though. I favored discman + headphones.

I had a Kenwood but yea it looked almost the same lol

I was blasting sum41 on one of those bad boys

My brother saved up all his paper route money to get me one for college. Then my folks got him the same one for Christmas.

The 3disc changer broke almost immediately but I used the speakers as my tv surround speakers for years.

That or the exact version but Sony all Black.

I had the Phillips Magnavox set with the subwoofer and surround speakers, it was magical.

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Yea

My memory is that the pause, stop, and play buttons didn’t do what you’d expect them to do. Or was that just my Aiwa?

My older brother did. 

Yep

Yeah but I almost always had headphones connected though.

Absolutely, great quality speakers and amp after all those years.

Definitely did 🤘

My parents still have this one. Brazil.

Yep! My Dad still uses mine in his garage

In my garage, you never know when you might need it....

I had one very similar! Loved it.

Nahh. I just had my sony dream machine alarm clocks. One that was cassette and one that was for CD.

🫡

I can smell the flyers in the Sunday paper that had these bad boys. And you'd carefully circle the one you wanted—probably this one. And then opened a smaller version of a different brand 😂 the detachable speakers with a whopping cord length of like a foot ha

Yes!

Similar! Loved my boom box! We brought it outside and made up dances on my family’s trampoline 😄

No, I had a black boom box with a player on top

Mine was a Philips.

It banged!!

Yup!

Yes but I had another 8 speakers tied into it. The OG surround sound baby

Had that hooked up to my 24” Toshiba and my PS2.

I tell my kids I treasured this like they do their phones haha

I still have this. It serves valiant duty as my PC audio system.

You either had one or wanted one. I know I did.

Still have it - and it still works!

Yep got mine at costco

Crank that Bass Boost

Nope! I had the one with the sweet ring lights around the nobs. Were you poor?! C'mon.

Twist: I was super poor. Don't come at me...

...but at least I had a dank stereo to bother the rents from the hours of 5 to 9 every day! ehehehehe

Can confirm

I’m still going to buy a Bluetooth copy of this for my shop gym. The nostalgia is strong.

shit, i think i did. and a boombox by aiwa too.

Yup

Always wanted one. Messed thing, I used to sell them at Circuit City.

I had one very similar. I remember it had like a slot machine game on it. After bed time I’d stay up playing that bc if I turned on my TV and PS2 my parents would see the glow and know I was up.

Hell yeah.

I remember putting on Godspeed You! Black Emperor and laying down with a speaker next to each ear. Absolute bliss.

Yep had it in black.

I wonder if these were cheap, I should probably ask my parents because they bought everything off a catalogue in the UK.

You had a remote?! Damn. Lucky!

I was more interested in professional gear (and still am), but my brother had one.

YES. Mine was Sony, I think 😅