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GPO Brooklyn Boombox $99.99 Delivered @ Costco Online (Membership Required)

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GPO Brooklyn Boombox $99.99 Delivered @ Costco Online (Membership Required)
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ozbs25 on 26/09/2023 - 10:20 costco.com.au (846 clicks)

Costco have been trying to clear this for a while at $199.99 I think. It's now $99.99 and finally worth a shot. Not expecting amazing quality from the various components but should be adequate for our (toddler) needs. I have a list of reviews at the bottom and while some of them say it's not that great, you need to factor in the price I suppose. Hard to get an exact read on the RRP but it does look like some people are trying to sell it for $400. At the time of one of the reviews it was £250.

Description

Bringing the '80s boombox bang up to date, the GPO Brooklyn gives you sound and style in equal measure. Fully portable with two 40 watt speakers, control the volume, balance, bass and treble, stream via Bluetooth, play cassettes, CDs or use the DAB and DAB+ radio.

This product features:

  • Fully portable
  • Bluetooth connectivity for use with smart phones and tablets
  • 2 x 40 watt speakers
  • Rechargeable lithium battery
  • Power supply compartment
  • Multimedia connection through RCA input and 3.5mm Aux in
  • Top loading CD player
  • Cassette player with recording function and digital tape counter
  • DAB and DAB+ FM radio with info button
  • USB and cassette playback / recording, volume, balance, bass and treble controls
  • 80’s retro style back light and Digital VU indicators
  • Twin aerials
  • Headphone and microphone port
  • Compatible with external speaker
  • Charge Time: 1.5 hours. Playback Time: Up to 4 hours

Some youtube reviews:

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  • wharlie on 26/09/2023 - 10:23
    +6

    9.7 kg, so if you're going to walk around with it on your shoulder, factor that in.

    • ozbs25 on 26/09/2023 - 10:33
      +3

      Do you even lift?

      Seriously though, I'll probably just plonk it in the corner somewhere. I want to record some of our toddlers favourite songs onto cassettes (where do you even get those?) and hopefully he can learn something. Starting to bug us to use tablets and anything to steer his focus away from that is good I think.

      • TheDukeOfNukem on 26/09/2023 - 14:05
        +1

        Don't buy the first cheap shitty no name tape you find. 20 years ago you'd be fine to and expect a standard minimum level of quality but some of the gutter trash you find these days is genuinely hard to listen to, and I don't exactly have the highest of standards when dealing with cassettes. But like to put in perspective, I got (back) into tapes like 7 or 8 years ago and bought a bunch of cheap crappy tapes to make some mixtapes on and they sounded like when you hold an earphone cord half in the thing and it gets that awful awkward wavy kind of sound effect, anyway, the perspective part is when my father died last year I cleared out his stuff and found a couple of old TDK blanks from years ago when I was a youngin and threw them in my deck to have a listen, one of them was a mix album and the other oddly enough was a full copy of American Idiot (guess I must have borrowed a mate's copy and made my own, I don't remember) anyway it sounded perfectly fine, no real different than the actual CD version, bc the basic TDK tapes from Coles 20 odd years ago absolutely trounce pretty well every modern day tape, they're all shit, buy some old stock Sony's or TDK types when you see some pop up for cheap on eBay. Even for a toddy, you don't want to get the cheapest of cheap shit.

        I'm far from an audiophile, the only record player I have is a 50 dollar suitcase boombox type thing I have in the attic for amusement and half the time I leave the needle sitting on whatever album I had on…but let me tell you, modern tapes (and tape players, which have largely been shit since the millennium tbh, but that's another ramble) are (profanity) godawful. It's not about which type you buy, (1-4 I mean), because they are ALL shit these days.

        • ozbs25 on 26/09/2023 - 14:33

          I wanted to try to get TDK ones like I used to but I may have to go digging into my old stash if I can find it based on what you are saying. I'm really reluctant to go to my folks house for anything though…

        • clandestino on 26/09/2023 - 14:41

          So, just to be clear. Do you think modern tapes are better than the old ones? Or worse?

  • killergreely on 26/09/2023 - 10:26
    -1

    Fugly

    • GaelicAU on 26/09/2023 - 10:32
      -1

      Fuggin' Fugly.

    • beefsandwich on 26/09/2023 - 10:33
      +13

      This is for setting down on a street corner, laying down some cardboard and busting out some b-boy moves. Not for a fashion show.

    • jimbler on 26/09/2023 - 13:00
      +1

      I'm going to have to go with my man Ponch here. I love boomboxes, but this thing looks hideous.

  • Nugs on 26/09/2023 - 10:38
    +1

    no AM band, no deal
    .

    • pussa on 26/09/2023 - 11:20
      +6

      no 8 x D cell battery power option, no deal

      • Wombat cave on 26/09/2023 - 11:48

        Lithium battery inbuilt. Better then keep replacing batteries.

        • dav3 on 26/09/2023 - 11:56
          +11

          whoosh

  • fans on 26/09/2023 - 10:50
    +1

    ugly, but seems good speakers…

  • dav3 on 26/09/2023 - 11:02
    +6

    Kids these days, hating on boomboxes…….

  • bdl on 26/09/2023 - 11:25
    +2

    Hopefully not a transformer: https://youtu.be/c0yOAV2pO48?t=76

  • illogicalerror on 26/09/2023 - 12:28

    An actual cassette player. wow.

    • pussa on 26/09/2023 - 13:28

      People are buying them so need a player

    • seanbaussie on 26/09/2023 - 13:58

      But no double cassette. How am I going to make a mixtape?

      • dav3 on 26/09/2023 - 14:16

        Buy two and connect them via the headphone/microphone port…… duh :)

  • mu1394 on 26/09/2023 - 15:24

    In your eyes
    The light, the heat (in your eyes)
    I am complete (in your eyes)
    I see the doorway (in your eyes)

  • ozbs25 on 03/10/2023 - 18:03

    Hope you guys did better than me. Mine was a dud out of the box. Cassette player didn't work and battery seemed to be dead. : (

    At least returns are easy.

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