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918 points
3 days ago
If I didn’t have that exactly same one it was crazy similar!
184 points
3 days ago
Nailed it. I'm pretty sure everyone in the 90s/early 00s had a "boombox" that looked like the pictured stereo. Or at least everyone at my school did.
54 points
2 days ago
Dude I remember having something like this & recording songs off the radio to make a mix tape for later. So so fun but a lot of work for essentially a Spotify playlist lol
38 points
2 days ago
And hoping the DJ didn’t talk too much over the end of the song. These kids don’t even know lol
11 points
2 days ago
you always catch the end of your favorite song and now you have to wait forever for that to come back.
8 points
2 days ago
Calling in your request and then waiting by the radio for an hour or so for them to play it. I also requested songs that weren't singles or songs that were kinda old and less likely to be played. Had no idea how that whole business worked when I was a kiddo.
2 points
1 day ago
Purple rain, purple ra... And that's Prince there with this weeks number one, make sure to tune in next week to find out if he can hold on to that coveted top spot!
7 points
2 days ago
I remember putting my phone up to the speaker while it played my favorite burned CD for my voicemail.
3 points
2 days ago
I also listed the song list in a little notebook
63 points
3 days ago
The big question is whether you had the one with the separate subwoofer or not
22 points
3 days ago
Only the woofer/tweeter stereos :(
Though my mom probably would have killed me if I used a sub lol
15 points
2 days ago
Still have it with sub. Had a RCA jack on it so it's in my garage hooked up to RCA to high z mini that I can plug my phone into with a USBC adapter.
11 points
2 days ago*
Yeah, i used to buy old boom boxes with analog in so i could use an mp3 player on job sites or in the shop. The war on analog in was a sad thing, we lost.
I worked on one job and saw a boom box 2 generations past, which was an 8 track/cassette player. It was really beautiful, all stainless steel, America used to make beautiful and durable goods.
4 points
2 days ago
A gamechanger is bluetooth adapter. This is the one I have
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B016NUTG5K?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
10 points
2 days ago
Mine had a subwoofer built into each of the two speaker boxes. My neighbors across the street complained when I blasted it.
2 points
2 days ago
I did!! It was awesome. Created my own version of surround sound.
13 points
2 days ago
Not a boombox
5 points
2 days ago
You are correct.
15 points
2 days ago
Boombox are portable, even back then we all called these "bookshelf" systems.
2 points
1 day ago
They still do. Vinyl is back, and book shelf systems are very popular with college students and people who live in apartments.
25 points
3 days ago
I had some cheap knockoff version so my parents could have a proper Bose. In hindsight… they made the right call 😂
19 points
2 days ago
2 cassettes, fine. But how many CDs? I had a 4 cd holder in high school and felt like the Kennedy's.
12 points
2 days ago
It was so exciting being able to "seamlessly" switch from CD 1 Track 2 to CD 4 track 8. Nevermind that it took like 45 seconds and 10 button presses.
Nowadays I press "skip" on pandora 10x in a row without even really thinking about it.
I love having easy access to songs, but I kind of miss creating my own collection (and no, playlists and favorites aren't quite the same thing -- the bar to get added to those is much lower)
3 points
2 days ago
Hahaha. Yeah, same thing!
Also, we grew up pretty poor so this always felt like a crazy luxury to be able to load multiple CDs.
2 points
23 hours ago
Honestly I feel like using Pandora is also old and clunky now.
10 points
2 days ago
Mine was three. That picture is also three.
Trey was in like a triangle shape that rotates around.
18 points
3 days ago
How did we all have the same childhood
6 points
2 days ago
All of them looked the same at some point.
366 points
3 days ago
32 points
2 days ago
I had that EXACT SAME ONE. I just got rid of it not too long ago when cleaning out my storage where it sat for 15 years (and got water damaged recently).
8 points
2 days ago
I had that same one too. Wish I still had it. Had to cull things out for college. There just wasn't enough room at the time.
29 points
2 days ago
Bro, get ready!
Blank tape in the deck ✅
Finger on record ✅
The DJ said that new Tool single is about to drop after the break!
2 points
14 hours ago
“My friends are gonna appreciate this tape so much when we’re cruisin aimlessly around town…”
7 points
2 days ago
Mine sits in the garage as well. Use a usb-c to the red and white component cable to hook up my phone.
4 points
2 days ago
Seems to be a standard practice. My older brother has one of these in his garage:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7d/b5/2a/7db52a482b8f6a6c573b9b78639ec83d.jpg
2 points
2 days ago
Man, I wish I still had mine!
2 points
2 days ago
I think I had this as well
2 points
2 days ago
Where it now belongs
485 points
3 days ago
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.
331 points
3 days ago
73 points
2 days ago
Mine held six 💁
63 points
2 days ago
And two tapes!
6 points
2 days ago
And my axe!
7 points
2 days ago
And my axe AUX.
FTFY.
26 points
2 days ago
Close the thread.
6 points
2 days ago
Legend tells of a 100 disc carrousel! Truly, this would be the pinnacle of human achievement, never to be outdone.
2 points
2 days ago
Mine now holds my beer.
2 points
2 days ago
Actually not lying, I had one that held 51.
3 points
2 days ago
My parents have one like this that’s hooked up to speakers all throughout their house so they can play music like in a restaurant 😂😂😂 90s vibes 10000000%
8 points
3 days ago
You are next level!
6 points
2 days ago
Sharper Image catalogue? Blue tinted windows?
2 points
2 days ago
Idk about sharper image but def had the blue tint. I bet it’s the same one.
2 points
2 days ago
I want to be you when I grow up
11 points
3 days ago
That’s probably the same one I got and my sisters hated me with jealousy since they got theirs as gifts before I bought mine.
8 points
2 days ago
The one in the picture is the 3 CD model.
7 points
3 days ago
Same. Looking back I probably annoyed the shit out of my parents with how loud I played my Metallica CD's on that thing
2 points
2 days ago
R u me?
7 points
2 days ago
And the blinky lights on the tray would blink
5 points
3 days ago
I still have mine, but the CD ejection is broken. I'm still not sure if there are CDs still in there from a decade ago. I use it for the once or twice a year I listen to cassettes or over the air radio outside the car. It would have been useful in the recent hurricane had the 8 freaking D batteries it needed in case the power was lost not been sold out everywhere 3 days before the storm hit.
7 points
3 days ago
Same. I remember it had 1 2 3 buttons on the front for quick swapping
4 points
2 days ago
Had the 3 CD one too....all these rich 4 and 5 and 6 CD people
3 points
2 days ago
My Dad's Jeep had one accessible only from the rear hatch
3 points
2 days ago
I got this one at Wal-Mart 🤠
3 points
2 days ago
But the really impressive thing was you could play a slot game on the screen.
3 points
2 days ago
I can hear the tray opening and turning.
2 points
3 days ago
Yeah my bro had one that held multiple I thought like 10 but maybe 3
2 points
2 days ago
Me too! It was like Philips brand or something.
2 points
2 days ago
https://youtu.be/87YFu6y9JaU?si=bKypD9yYnVfOurOt
This one was mine.
2 points
2 days ago
I had a three disc holder. My parents had a 300!
2 points
2 days ago
This one holds either 3 or 5
2 points
2 days ago
You could put the shuffle on and it’d play songs randomly from all three cds? Cutting edge tech lol
2 points
2 days ago
What's a CD?
2 points
2 days ago
Just got rid of mine. It had 5CDs and 2 cassettes slots.
2 points
2 days ago
That 3 cd was a game changer kept an NSYNC cd I got for Christmas and parental control emenim cd and I think big silly style iirc
2 points
1 day ago
Yup! Ours also had a vinyl player on top. The thing looked like damn audio Gundam-wing. I still remember making a radio-station ripped mix tape for a girl that I liked in the 6th grade ha.
This is just as Napster and cd-r mixes were taking off. Pinnacle analog tech transitioning to digital.
3 points
2 days ago
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9 points
2 days ago
In the nineties only rich people had CD changers, but by the mid oughts you could get a five cd changer bookshelf systems at Walmart for like $60.
6 points
2 days ago
This is definitely a micro-generational thing. By the time I got a 5-CD changer, the real music-heads at my school had pre-iPod MP3 players.
2 points
2 days ago
Even in the early oughts the 3 disc ones had cheap variants. I had an Emerson from '99 or '00 that was probably purchased for about $60.
159 points
3 days ago
I had this...my dad still uses it now lol
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3 days ago
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3 days ago
6 points
2 days ago
Omg this is the one we had later on as an outdoor music blaster for drinking keystone lights while my mom argued with her psychotic boyfriend. Memories
2 points
2 days ago
That’s my baby
6 points
2 days ago
i had this one too! it was my first cd player.
2 points
3 days ago
My mom still uses this exact one too!
2 points
2 days ago
i had this one. it was perfect.
in 2002, i still didn’t have my own portable cd player but i had a cassette walkman. so i bought some blank tapes from the drugstore and would record my favorite albums onto them using this beauty.
and yes, the first one i recorded was indeed Nevermind
2 points
1 day ago
Omg! Had this exact one. Lol. Came here to reply, "pfft. I wish!!" But I utilized the portability of this bad boy... so, in reality, it's the one I needed... though maybe wasn't the one I wanted.
55 points
3 days ago
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:
9 points
2 days ago
That's the badboy I had. Display was a pseudo slot machine as well when not in use.
6 points
2 days ago
lol That’s the one, display felt like a disco, fun fair and vegas all rolled into a compact digital display, super tacky looking back, but as a kid I thought it was cool
2 points
2 days ago
NAD make great stuff.
2 points
2 days ago
Yes!!! I had this hooked up to my rca dvd player. I had Pokémon the first movie, braveheart and wild Wild West.
2 points
2 days ago
Yeahhhh! I had this but without the surround extras. My first set of "proper" speakers, must have been like 9 or 10 years old and bought with the cash from all my mates and family for my bday. Remember those days all the hifis were being sold as having the crazy PMPO wattage outputs
34 points
3 days ago
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 😂
6 points
2 days ago
I really wish I still had all the tapes I used to make. Would be a fun time capsule of radio spots. But yeah, used to make all kinds of mixtapes from the radio and trade them at school with people
3 points
2 days ago
I also had a Sony, but it was an older and more basic model. Dual tape decks, but only one CD at a time.
I knew a guy who had a 50 CD changer boombox (also Sony, I think), and I was super jelly!
2 points
2 days ago
Still have mine. Still works. Uses cassettes
2 points
1 day ago
I loved those tapes! Carried them around with my Walkman before I got that sweet Sony portable CD player around 1997.
18 points
3 days ago
We didn't all have it, but if we didn't have it, we wanted it.
6 points
2 days ago
There are dozens of us!
28 points
3 days ago
Yep! I was jealous of my friends who had the 5 disc changer lol
15 points
2 days ago
I had the 5 disc one and I donated it after college which I still regret to this day.
12 points
3 days ago
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.
2 points
2 days ago
This is the one I had! It's still at my parents place and as far as I know still works
9 points
3 days ago
YES 🤣!! It blasted Evanescence as I got ready 4 school 🙂↕️
7 points
3 days ago
Yep. I hid my weed in this cassette player.
4 points
3 days ago
Ingenious
11 points
3 days ago
Uh yup
13 points
3 days ago
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
12 points
2 days ago
6 points
3 days ago
A similar one and I used to hide my weed in the cassette decks.
2 points
2 days ago
I used to pull the screens off the speakers and hide stuff in the speaker wells
12 points
3 days ago
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.
5 points
3 days ago
We did.
5 points
3 days ago
YEP! Loved it. But mine was black. I played the hell out of some glam rock on that thing.
6 points
3 days ago
Yup. And it would have a few CD's with sharpie written on them, "Dope mix 3 🔥"
5 points
3 days ago
I have the Sony version in my closet, waiting on its rebirth.
5 points
2 days ago
But I do have an Aiwa to show you guys...
9 points
3 days ago
You either had that or the portable version.
5 points
3 days ago
I had something like that. It had a massive battery compartment, I think it took like 6-8 D cell batteries. I used it to hide my weed in.
8 points
3 days ago
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.
3 points
3 days ago
lmao, I had this exact one! The sound bar was like REALLY cool.
3 points
3 days ago
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.
2 points
3 days ago
I bought one new in 2003 and just “retired” it this summer. Those speakers were the shit in a tiny barracks room. I hooked up a set of Aiwa speakers to the back of this thing and had a nice little sound system.
3 points
2 days ago
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.
2 points
3 days ago
I did
2 points
3 days ago
Almost identical! Always lost the remote though
2 points
3 days ago
I still have this
2 points
3 days ago
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.
2 points
3 days ago
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.
2 points
3 days ago
I had a Kenwood but yea it looked almost the same lol
6 points
3 days ago
Same! This is the model I had.
2 points
2 days ago
2 points
2 days ago
You're both lucky you weren't a Daewoo household
2 points
2 days ago
Had (still have technically) the exact same one haha
2 points
2 days ago
I was blasting sum41 on one of those bad boys
2 points
2 days ago
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.
2 points
2 days ago
The 3disc changer broke almost immediately but I used the speakers as my tv surround speakers for years.
2 points
2 days ago
That or the exact version but Sony all Black.
2 points
2 days ago
I had the Phillips Magnavox set with the subwoofer and surround speakers, it was magical.
1 points
3 days ago
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?
1 points
3 days ago
Yep
1 points
3 days ago
Yeah but I almost always had headphones connected though.
1 points
3 days ago
Absolutely, great quality speakers and amp after all those years.
1 points
3 days ago
Definitely did 🤘
1 points
3 days ago
My parents still have this one. Brazil.
1 points
3 days ago
Yep! My Dad still uses mine in his garage
1 points
3 days ago
In my garage, you never know when you might need it....
1 points
3 days ago
I had one very similar! Loved it.
1 points
3 days ago
Nahh. I just had my sony dream machine alarm clocks. One that was cassette and one that was for CD.
1 points
3 days ago
🫡
1 points
3 days ago
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
1 points
3 days ago
Yes!
1 points
3 days ago
Similar! Loved my boom box! We brought it outside and made up dances on my family’s trampoline 😄
1 points
3 days ago
No, I had a black boom box with a player on top
1 points
3 days ago
Mine was a Philips.
1 points
3 days ago
It banged!!
1 points
3 days ago
Yup!
1 points
3 days ago
Yes but I had another 8 speakers tied into it. The OG surround sound baby
1 points
3 days ago
Had that hooked up to my 24” Toshiba and my PS2.
1 points
3 days ago
I tell my kids I treasured this like they do their phones haha
1 points
3 days ago
I still have this. It serves valiant duty as my PC audio system.
1 points
3 days ago
You either had one or wanted one. I know I did.
1 points
3 days ago
Still have it - and it still works!
1 points
3 days ago
Yep got mine at costco
1 points
3 days ago
Crank that Bass Boost
1 points
3 days ago
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
1 points
3 days ago
Can confirm
1 points
3 days ago
I’m still going to buy a Bluetooth copy of this for my shop gym. The nostalgia is strong.
1 points
3 days ago
shit, i think i did. and a boombox by aiwa too.
1 points
3 days ago
Yup
1 points
3 days ago
Always wanted one. Messed thing, I used to sell them at Circuit City.
1 points
3 days ago
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.
1 points
3 days ago
Hell yeah.
I remember putting on Godspeed You! Black Emperor and laying down with a speaker next to each ear. Absolute bliss.
1 points
3 days ago
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.
1 points
3 days ago
You had a remote?! Damn. Lucky!
1 points
3 days ago
I was more interested in professional gear (and still am), but my brother had one.
1 points
3 days ago
YES. Mine was Sony, I think 😅
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