They don't make them like they used to.
I remember back in the 80 ...
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I remember back in the 80s and 90s when boom boxes "boomed" and sounded like a real stereo, had auxiliary ins and outs, mic ins, and most importantly had radio tuners that stretched the entire length of the unit and could pull in anything for miles around. Well, welcome to a new millennium. On paper this looks like it might deliver. Unfortunately it doesn't. The sound is small and "tinny" with CDs, the tape player sounds "wavy" and garbled, the buttons for the tape player are clunky, and worst of all... the AM/FM dial is about 2" long which means it has extremely low tolerance when trying to dial in a station. You can only pull in very strongest of stations in an area. The weaker stations overlap, meaning you can often here two stations at once competing for strength. I can't even pull in some of my local stations which are only 3 miles away here in Rochester, MN. Unfortunately, I don't see any other modern boom boxes that are much better. I think your best bet may be a local thrift store or pawn shop to find an older boom box that actually had some original quality to it.
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