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Sea_Baseball_7410@reddit

Aiwa was the best brand. I had the three disc carousel one. The bass was so good.

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yourmomsinmybusiness@reddit

I had an aiwa personal cassette player. I spent weeks comparing every feature of it and the sony walkman in the Service Merchandise catalog before dropping my $79.99 on it.

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xbjedi@reddit

Same! It seemed so high tech compared to the walkman too.

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syzygybeaver@reddit

Same here, upgraded the headphones to Koss Porta PRO Jr's.

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woozle618@reddit

Service Merchandise! I bought a white Aiwa cd player with 3 second memory from there!

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yourmomsinmybusiness@reddit

Yes, and that was a HUGE amount of money. I can remember the few times I had $100 as a kid distinctly.

And yes, the aiwa mostly lived in the inside pocket of my Levi's denim jacket.

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woozle618@reddit

What blew my mind was opening the tray while a cd was playing!

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Odd-Independent4640@reddit

Marty’s cassette player in Back to the Future was an Aiwa!

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cybaz@reddit

They were great mid-range gear, they hit the sweet spot between the cheap stuff sounded like it was coming from a tin can, and the high end stuff that was out of my budget.

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Head_Effect3728@reddit

Did anyone ever NOT push the bass boost button?

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MarkItZeroDonnie@reddit

I remember my discman had a bass boost

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

I think that's part of the design choice. They probably built it without the button at first and just had that as the default setting.

Then they realized how much more appealing it is to consumers, to be able to hit a button called 'bass booster'. It's a really smart marketing idea.

There have been other products that add buttons like this, to enable functionality that everyone wants but people feel 'cooler' by having the button.

Just like older PCs with the 'turbo' button to increase the clock speed of the CPU.

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VodkaToasted@reddit

I came here to say the same thing. It seems silly because nobody's ever turning the "bass boost" off but it must have at least been marketing wisdom at the time.

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Strait-outta-Alcona@reddit

I had a jvc gigatube stereo, used to shake the windows in my apartment.

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GrandMoffJenkins@reddit

Looks like mine, but I had the CX-NMT320.

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woozle618@reddit

I learned to mix on the dual cassette deck with actual buttons. Pausing/unpausing simultaneously was the key!

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Mixednutbag@reddit

AIWA!!!

I had an Aiwa walkman! Pretty solid!

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KidKold_43@reddit

I had almost the same one! I miss those

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kaishinoske1@reddit

Reminds me of a movie, Pump up the volume.

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JigsJones@reddit

lol what does Happy Harry have to do with this?

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orthros@reddit

Did we all own this exact model at some point? I feel like we did

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IceNein@reddit

Did anyone ever play those things with the bass un-boosted?

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siouxsian@reddit

Instead of cracked phone screens back then all my female friends had cracked boom boxes with blown speakers that buzzed

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shiner_bock@reddit

I used to have that exact one! I miss it from time to time.

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Gwilym_Ysgarlad@reddit

I can hear Tool's Ænima blasting out ouf those speakers.

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Awake-Now@reddit

I had an Aiwa system in college. Those packed a punch.

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Natrix421@reddit

I have one of these in my garage that plays the radio 24-7. It’s been on for almost ten years. Late 90’s model. It was my wife’s in high school.

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Over-Director-4986@reddit

Ohhhh, I had this. Bought one for my little sis for her 13th bday, too.

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

This is the system my sister had.

I was very lucky to have a best friend who worked in a pawn shop in high school.

He hooked me up with Polk Audio speakers with an Onkyo receiver, for nearly nothing. My sister would be trying to listen to her TLC CD and I'd have Paperboy - Ditty playing on repeat, shaking the entire house.

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YEAH, MAN!!!!

🤘🏼😂

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