06-20-2011, 02:19 AM
I know this doesn't help, but since you mentioned how yours was a relic...I still have a Panasonic DS30 'boombox' CD player, cassette & radio that STILL cranks since I got it in 1987. All functions going smoothly, and it was heavily used from my college years and several years after that and is still used (though the cassette and CD mechanisms are only used several times a year anymore). No blown speakers or even external signs of wear (all the labels are in tact, hell it looks new). Amazing...