If you like the look of a model, are pleased by its sound and find that its controls feel solid under your fingers, wrap it up and put a bow on it. Here are five likely candidates. The prices are suggested retail. This is the one E.T. is giving his friends. The whole unit is one big tube, allowing for long ducts that push very deep bass out the sizable speakers at each end.
Funny thing is, it's really quite musical.
In a window-rattling sort of way. There's a certain elegance about Sony's clean-lined, modernist design. But if you want to see your bedroom walls tremble, Sony's Mega-Bass Sound System is ready and able. The spin on Aiwa's latest boomboxes is Q Surround, an electronic manipulation of two-channel stereo to create the effect of multichannel sound. And for party time, a microphone input.