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Memorex Bluetooth Boombox with FM Radio

  • 3.5" speaker drivers which, believe us, sound enormous if you’re used to tiny portable speakers
  • Includes FM radio, Bluetooth and 3.5mm aux-in, so you can play your old Walkman through it for maximum throwback
  • All hail the return of Bass Boost
  • AC or battery power, so you can rock the party or revive your breakdancing career (big piece of cardboard not included), especially if you buy rechargeable AAs
  • Model: MW153 (two letters, three numbers, get in, get out, nice)
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Bring that boom back.

Walking in his neighborhood one sunny day recently, a staffer of ours - oh, screw this third person crap, it was me, @JasonToon, Meh’s writer - happened past a guy doing some yardwork, accompanied by loud, deep, full-sounding music. “Brother must have some badass system,” I said to myself (I talk a lot cooler in my head).

I looked around for massive speakers or a vintage tube preamp, and found… an ancient boombox about the size of a children’s shoebox. For me, it would have been relegated to second- or third-string boombox duty back in the day - like, the one I didn’t mind dripping paint on. But after years of tinny portable speakers, it sounded like the chorus of Valhalla.

What happened? We figured this shit out 20 or 30 years ago. The right size of a portable speaker set is “as big as you can comfortably carry on your shoulders.” I’m not too picky about sound, and I’m a full-on participant in the digital music revolution: ask my crammed-full 30GB brown Zune. I don’t miss tapes getting eaten or CDs inevitably, eventually skipping. But I was stunned to realize how our sonic standards have devolved below what we would have put up with when Escape Club was topping the charts. Somehow we’ve downsized our expectations along with our circuitry.

This Memorex Bluetooth Boombox isn’t huge. The speaker drivers are “only” 3.5". But if, like me, you’ve gotten used to speaker cones the size of an Oreo, you’ll discover that “huge” is in the ear of the beholder. In addition to Bluetooth, it’s got a universal 3.5mm aux-in jack and an FM radio. It’s even got Bass Boost - remember Bass Boost? The only thing it doesn’t have is a tape deck or CD player, but at least MP3s never skip or get eaten.

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