[net.audio] CD Boom Box coming out

wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (05/21/85)

I just KNEW all you net.audioans would be simply peachy-keen THRILLED to
hear about this...

Sony is coming out with a boom box/ghetto blaster incorporating the CD-5
CD player -- the picture (in the latest Audio Times trade paper) shows the
usual chunk of electronics with a handle, flanked by a pair of
(probably detachable) mini-speakers. The CD-5 is built into the top of the 
unit, and it has cassette and radio, as usual. $550 list. (They ought to
get together with Bose and make a CD boom box with Bose's fancy
acoustic labyrinth enclosure...)

Regards,
Will Martin

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kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (05/24/85)

The latest issue of AUDIO (or was it Digital Audio?) has an article on
the Sony CDF-5 boom box.  I didn't read the article but it is not a 
small unit.  The speakers are called attachable speakers.  I suppose
this means that Sony thinks people will have the speakers detached most
of the time and will attach them only to move the unit.

In regards to BOSE incorporating the D-5 into their Acoustical Wave system,
someone on the net reported some time ago that they plan to have such a
unit by this Christmas.  If so, they will be showing it at the Summer
CES here in Chicago in a week and a half.  I already have it on my list
of things to check out.  I'll let you know if they show it or plan to 
release it soon.
 
					Kit Kimes
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