Sunday 6 November 2011

The Changing Types Of The Sony Boom Box And Their Additions

By Stan Roderbel


Music aficionado's throughout the past have at one time or another owned a massively spectacular Sony Boom Box. More affectionately known as a Ghetto-Blaster in the 1980's and 1990's era. These boxes feature radio stations and dual cassette tapes for listening and recording songs from a second cassette or favorite radio tunes. Later models changed over to compact discs and could even be recorded as well for mixes for friends and loved ones.

This is one of Sony's most popular products as it emits clear outstanding volume in loud levels other products like this do not. Many of these are even manufactured to were you can listen to radio stations and then record music you here onto cassette tapes. Teens and adults alike love these jam machines.

Most of these extreme jamming machines can run by plugging in with adapter to wall electrical outlets but are best known for running on batteries of the 12-volt or the D-size which needs about ten. Carrying your own box around wherever you went is what made these so sought after.

Several electronic companies started introducing their own brands of Sony's Jam Boxes within the latter part of the seventies. Stereo sound features were also new additions on the early recording radio and cassette players. People were even more aware of the Sony music magnificence when movies and music videos showed the rising culture of rap and hip-hop music as well as break dancing in the eighties.

As the popularity grew and more demand from consumers the different brands became extremely competitive against one another. Each manufacturer wanted their's to be the best, flashiest, loudest and with the most features. Soon though the big boomers were being transitioned out to more sleek, smaller designs which could be carried easily in a back pack, pocket or purse and be listened to from anywhere with battery power and much smaller earphones.

When people decided they really would like something smaller more svelte designs companies listened and the Walk-Man types of music players made their debut. These were big enough to hold a cassette tap or a compact disc in them and had forward, rewind, play and stop buttons on them. They all ran on battery power and had input links for small ear phones for easy listening.

Sony Boom Box was the most popular and still is today. Sophisticated versions with even more features included graphic equalizers, sound with LED or analog levels, speakers that were bigger and could be detached and inputs for either microphone's or earphones. The very special more extreme models even had 8-track tape players, television screens which played black and white or a record player turntable which played your favorite vinyls.




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