Philips Magnavox D 8300 Boom Box From The Late 80’s
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I borrowed this picture from this website, and I hope they don’t get mad, but I do want to thank them because they are the only one’s online I could find who had a picture of this exact radio boom box. It is 4:15 a.m. and I am having a major flashback to my late teen / early 20’s all because of a comment I responded to a short while ago regarding music players. I got to thinking about a particular boom box I owned before and during a short time I was in the army and I am laying here in bed looking at this picture of the model D 8300 by Magnavox wishing I still had my bright yellow radio that I loved so much. This was my BOOM BOOM haha…. at least that’s what I called it back in the 80’s. I think the year I bought this was in 1987 or 1988. I remember saving every penny I could get my hands on so that I could buy this double cassette deck boom box. It had a shoulder strap and I used to carry this big thing everywhere. My favorite cassette to listen to on this thing was Taylor Dayne’s first album release. It was a clear cassette and I would just sit sometimes and listen to her sing and watch the little spindles in the cassette turn. I remember walking to my friends house down the street with this thing strapped over my shoulder and my music blaring from it. I miss that so much! I thought I was cool walking with this thing. I don’t remember what happened to my boom box… Maybe I gave it away. Maybe it stopped working and I had to throw it away. Who knows? But there is one thing I know and that is I absolutely loved this boom box. This boom box was available in yellow or black. As stated earlier, I owned a yellow one because it looked better than the black one I thought. I remember the first time I saw this boom box in the store. It’s bright yellow color and it’s design really caught my eye. It was definitely the most awesome boom box I had ever owned. It was pretty loud I should say for it’s size. I have found a black one on ebay, and I am thinking about bidding on it, but I am seriously looking for a yellow one like this one in the picture. I would love to have another one to be able to plug in my mp3 player to it and listen to all the new music I love now on something so old that I loved when I was younger. Ok I’m gonna cry myself to sleep now cuz I really am missing my boom boom.
Before I go to bed… here is something I think is really cool. Does anyone remember the JVC Kaboom Boxes? Well JVC has brought it back again and it is updated. It now plays mp3 cd’s. This is the JVC RV-NB1. Add this to my want list.
UPDATE 07/14/08: A reader has submitted this cool picture of his D8300 boombox. Check out the bumblebee stickers and the cassette tapes. Very cool picture. Thanks John!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I had one of those! I was searching google for a “yellow magnavox boombox” and came upon your website. I remember the big shoulder strap. I loved mine but I eventually took it to the beach and it got sand in the cassette players and they quit working. I eventually took it apart for some reason. I need to find another one on ebay!
July 11th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Steve, you can find these on ebay every now and then. The black one’s seem to be easier to find but yellow ones pop up every now and then. Most of the time they are usually in pretty good condition considering how old these boom boxes are. A lot of times though on ebay the straps will be missing so make sure you look at the pictures in the auction to make sure the boom box has the strap included. This radio would not be complete without it’s strap. I have not yet found one on ebay yet that I cared to bid on, but I have been looking quite often.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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July 14th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
John thanks for submitting your picture. I like the bumblebee’s you stuck on your radio. Pretty cool. I’m gonna add your picture to the post since it didn’t show up in your comment.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:42 am
cool thanks. but i aint got no tayler dane cassettes. lol
July 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Haha @ John. I just mentioned my Tayler Dayne tape because it was one of the ones I had that I remembered playing so much when I had that boom box.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
just bought one
September 12th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Believe it or not I am sitting right here next to my yellow magnavox - it works as well today as when I got it for christmas in 1986 or 87 -
It must have 10,000 hours on it. I would turn it on in my dorm room when I got to school in the fall and turn it off when I moved out in the spring.
I have the strap but the antenna is long gone.
I found this because I can’t remember how to use the inputs on the back
I want to use it for my projector and screen I am building in my backyard.
Any help would be appreciated
October 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I have the yellow one. It’s an awesome boom boom that’s why I haven’t gotten rid of it. Just pulled it out of a box to see how it sounded with my mp3 player. Can you believe this thing has aux inputs on the back of it???!!! By the way, you can use them by plugging in whatever you need to, then you have to trick the cassette into thinking it’s recording to hear the sound. You do this by opening the right cassette deck, pushing the little doohicky down in the bottom right (the one that keeps you from recording onto a prerecorded cassette) and hitting the record button. If you have a trash cassette around with the tabs still intact or tape over them, it would work too.
I’ll have to take a pic for you. Funny thing is that I ended up with this one accidentally, I had another Magnavox model from about the same time that had a cd and cassette, I knew someone with this one and since it had dual cassettes, said I wanted to trade him. I didn’t care much or cd’s anyway and I had all of my music on cassette at the time anyway (it was around 1990).