Do you still own a ghetto blaster (cassette playing radio) and use it?

We called them boom-boxes and my old one still is in a landfill and looks exactly the same as when I binned it.

I didn’t have a ghetto blaster even when that was what the young people were calling them.

I still have one. I never called it any of those things; it’s a portable stereo in my mind, although boom box would be the slang term I am also familiar with. I haven’t used the cassettte part in forever, but I assume it still works. I use the radio sometimes. Or, I should say my husband does in the garage. I’ve had it since before college, so that would be since the early 80’s. It does have a CD player in it also.

Yes, I do. But I no longer have any cassettes, so it’s used on my back porch only for radio.

These devices had a bad reputation with their name (ghetto blaster). The one I own has (still, 15 years later) big, working speakers, excellent stereo, good bass rendition. I listen to a fair amount of classical and to jazz, and the blaster does a fine job of playing that music.

You mean a boombox? I had one in my room at my parents’ house that I used to use when I lived there. I don’t know where it’s from because it’s older than I am. I used the CD input, though. I’m sure it’s still in that room.

I never owned one.

CD, dual cassette, recorder/player AM/FM boombox with detachable plug and battery option (lots of big, chunky ones.). Plays great, records like you would expect. I use the radio mostlySometimes the cd player has issues.

Mine is cassette and CD. It sits on top of the refrigerator and is used as a radio.Sometimes I use it as an amp for playing recordings from my small Sandisk.

It is not in a landfill. (It probably should be but then I’d have to replace it and I am always reluctant to replace things that still work. – thus the 2 vehicles with 150,000 miles.)

I have one on my workbench, I have not had cassettes in almost 20 years. I used to listen to the fm radio but I have not turned it on in like four years. (mainstream music f***ing sucks these days)

I have a Sony portable CD player and radio in my bedroom to listen to bedtime zen music. haha
No cassettes for decades now.
This one has a really good sound and I use it every night, everything from ethnic asian massage tunes to piano concertos to nature sounds CD’s. I like to fall asleep with soothing music, calms the mind.

<—- Still has piles of cassettes in case the Smithsonian Museum needs them for an 80’s American culture wing.

I have one sitting in storage. It still works so I didn’t see the need to trash it. So, now it basically just takes up space :)

PS. I think the term “ghetto blaster” was really a reference to these great big huge ones that guys would carry on their shoulders.

Mine was a much more modest size as I expect most were.

I still own Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 10. http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=861

It features a very slim aluminum chassis, lab proven acoustic tuning and enough amplification power to drive a set of full size home speakers.

In B&O tradition music from any source can be heard at a single touch, primary controls are readily available while secondary controls are hidden.

For the best possible cassette sound auto reverse is omitted. Instead, a single direction tape transport is used. Cue and review can be used while in play to hear gaps between tracks.

It has an amplifier setting for low gain sources such as a phonograph.

It has three clever mechanical FM presets.

It has both AC and DC power inputs, left and right channel RCA audio connectors and left and right B&O style external speaker outputs.

Cloth speaker grille design matches B&O speakers from the era. I have bookshelf and floor standing sets.

Cassette transport was rebuilt about ten years ago but it is mainly used in connection with my iPhone (like almost all new B&O products are today).

I wish I had a ghetto blaster.
Alas, I only have a boom box.

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Yup. Love that pic ! That’s the perfect illustration for what I was referring to.

Can you imagine lugging that around? No small wonder they went out of style :)

@Buttonstc I should start lifting weights just to handle one! They’re pretty rad.

Look at this one on eBay. Awesome.
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Yeah. Those were the days.

Personally, I can think of a whole lot of better uses for 1K :)

True. Those prices are insane!