The Last Boomboxes

Seeing the muppets return is like hearing from an old friend. Always a pleasure

I bought a JVC boom box back in 2001. It died in 2022. It has been on every vacation, every year since I bought it, so we held a wake when it died. It will be missed.

Nearly 42 years after it was first released to the public, the CD is still one of the best consumer audio formats ever invented. It has excellent quality audio, no DRM, and most discs last practically forever. And it's even experiencing a bit of a vinyl-style comeback at the moment, which means that decent quality players - and even boomboxes, by the looks of it - are still available.

Muppets and the cat guarantee a good video!

I giggled like a school girl when the muppets popped up on the screne. I forgot how much I missed those guys! Thanks for the teaser Matt!

Puppets AND the kitty make an appearance?! This made my day! 😁❤🐈

What an epic thumbnail! And a subject near and dear (boomboxes), and a return to muppetology? Yes please!

Certainly be able to piss off a lot of people on a bus with that

I’ve been missing the puppets, please bring them back more regularly.

Over the last few years I have bought a number of vintage radios and ghetto blasters, mostly the ones I remember myself from the 70s and 80s. The early ones were so incredibly heavy and so well made. later 80s ones were a lot lighter and cheaper build. I’m finding that when it comes to using them that nostalgia just isn’t what it used to be and they are usually a disappointment in the sound quality, but never a disappointment from a fun perspective.

I laughed HARD at the trainstation announcement !! Hilarious !

They could so easily have included a storage feature for the remote in the oversized CD compartment.

If there was ever a feature missing from the original boom boxes, it was the unintelligible PA announcement echo function

It makes me happy to see these are still being made. I always wanted one in the early 2000s but coudln't afford them. Then, in 2014, despite being WAY late to the party (bluetooth speakers were already becoming a thing), I fulfilled my wish and bought a RV-NB75 which has lots of similarities with this one, for example the thick plastics, and the CD lock twisty knob. My model still runs on D-cells and doesn't have DAB or illuminated speakers, but it's party trick is that it mimics a cassette deck, but instead of a cassette you can put a smartphone into the door and play the files stored on there. Also it's got 2 big volume knobs, one for the general volume, and one for the "super woofer".

Love your peeling plastic off music.

i have no reason for thinking this but I'm certain your cat loves listening to you speak.

The "you have to use the remote" thing makes this a 1-star device right off the bat.

I absolutely loved the railway station echo effect!

14:09 rolling shutter effect due to the bass vibrations. That thing is not kidding when it says bass.

Cool! I sold quite some of the large JVC boom boxes 20 years ago. They were then already considered the last of their kind on the market. JVC had a complete different position in the consumer electronics market then, though. They were one of the most important brands. Now, not so much anymore, at least over here. It makes me happy that this product concept survived through all that time. Now that mobile music players/speakers are again very popular, maybe they could have their own little renaissance if marketed a little better.