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EEVblog 1590 – Cheap $33 Boombox Teardown
EEVblog 1590 – Cheap $33 Boombox Teardown
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Is a modern $33 boombox from Kmart any good?
THE 80’s boombox teardown:
Boombox REPAIR:
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Wow! I was expecting a little tiny board with a couple blobs, tons of empty space, and a piece of steel for weight. Can they really make an assembly like this for so cheap? Guess slave labor helps.
Oh man, so much falsetto squeaking …. I can't make it to the end of the video
I want CD, not cassette
Mono is a deal breaker, I'd pay $10. more for stereo and it wouldn't add much in mfg. cost
I didn't hear any thumping in the video, although the manufacturer promised extra bass… That can only mean one thing: your expensive microphones aren't any good… because surely the $33 boombox marketing specs wouldn't lie. 😛
Hi Dave! I love to see your teardown videos! What about show us some of thermionic tubes and first transistor radios? Greetings from Argentina! 🇦🇷 🤝🏻🇦🇺🦘🗽
This exact same model has been on sale for at least 4 years under various brand names. The price has also barely changed.
That Bluetooth voice is the same as in my $4 car fm transmitter.
Marc Vincent
Simular although vintage yours is feature packed nice little radio 📻. Cheap but ya know it is what it is. I buy things take it apart then don't put it back together sometimes I do rare tho.
Emerson CTR927
It reminds me of the Emmersion brand in the 80s
I'd mod in some 18650s f the d cells
1.5 watts man bummer I like at least 200 w at my speakers 50w a channel and good speakers fills the room
Love the knock off "Xabuchi" motor name and logo @15:48 !
That's actually waaay better put together than I'd have expeced, I can't imagine any other target segment for this than young kids, and in that context, the mic makes perfect sense, it was great fun to record yourself to tape play it back, when you were a kid.
passive parts cost more than transistors i find.
I know some old Philips record/tape/radio combo's had the cog-wheel radio tuner like this. After repair you had to lock it to a well know radio station and move the slider to that station and pair it up so the freqeuncy shown on the front would match the settings on the tuner….
This is a fascinating case of how above-average value can translate to be such a rip off. This has so many features, but most of those features are so sub par.
So many 0 Ohm jumper resistors to keep it one sided.
I need the link for this, wanna give it a try
All those "0" resistor (jumpers) were a clue that it is a single-sided board. I'm amazed no lithium ion battery (upgrade it Dave!). Would make a good prop for BTTF4. That woodgrain reminds me of Realistic audio equipment.
Saying buy a second had unit is so easy to say but most need new belts etc
Maybe if you were going camping and you just wanted a radio , some music played quietly and a means of recording your fireside singalongs ? Not a tragedy if it breaks .
The nightmare of the 'speaking' mp3 / bluetooth chips. A total embarrassment when one of those goes off at full volume (it always speaks at full volume). It will be one of those JL chips, AC46 type (a now obsolete version); I even managed to download the source code for those chips, along with the dodgy original speech files, but never got around to trying to re-program one due to the Chinese software tools often coming with included malware.
hey um you should make a video on a Audiocrazy Retro Boombox Cassette Player the AC-RC88BT and take a teardown of that
What, no 8 track?
Cheap n' cheerful and made from only the finest chinesism😉
Sadly, I could see this replacing a repairable 80's boombox. Someone just wants a cassette player and can't be bothered to replace a belt or pinch roller.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸Dave
Techmoan did a review of this same mono boombox way back in 2019, but branded as REKA.
Aldi supermarkets sold it in the UK for £30.
Mono is no good, particularly if you listen through headphones.
I’ve destroyed more than one double cassette player trying to replace those black rubber tension bands on old 80’s -90’s players which in most cases were a confusing melted/oily disintegrated mess and extremely hard to get to. On top of that trying to figure out how and where those multiple-different length bands, especially for reel to reel /auto reverse/etc were interconnected has been a nightmare.
Why does this audio sound Auto-Tuned? lol
220 211 whatever it takes. 😛
Thanks
The didn't even manage to get the "Play"-arrow pointing in the right direction, in case anyone noticed… 😀. My pretty basic 1984 Samsung P-32S boombox is running circles around that POS. In stereo.