'Boombox' and '10w', that doesn't work...

Those are tweeter horns above the outer speakers.

Got a 5 month old puppy.

Needed something small and portable to leave on for a bit of background noise, if we pop out for an hour or 2, and this looked ideal.

Asked the dog, he said 10W would be fine for this purpose. Purchased. Thanks OP.

That's the military intelligence channel, you aren't allowed to plug in if you aren't in the military

Thanks. Ordered for kids.

Good deal, would be even better if the radio was DAB.

Shame no mains power. Good price though.

Thanks.

Not mentioned in specs, but there is a Bluetooth symbol on the display and a "pair" button.

'Boombox' and '10w', that doesn't work...

Great deal and voted hot but not ideal for portable battery use. Either you use disposable one use cells that will cost a fortune or invest in rechargeable batteries and this will cost a fair bit making paying more for a speaker box with a li-ion battery pack more logical especially runtime. This is really about using from a mains socket, kitchen, bedroom, garage, workshop, shed etc. Also if it comes with a AC to DC transformer plug with a low voltage DC cable to power it, it is safe to use in the bathroom by running the DC cable under the door. I wouldn't buy it for battery use as there are better options.

Doesn't look like it has a headphone socket. The front socket is a mic socket so is it some sort of karaoke device too? I guess the mic socket can be used as a line in so you could also connect this to a PC for sound output etc. Pretty versatile. Also it looks like the mic in is for an audio overlay so you could still use it to play bluetooth music maybe and PC games for example simultaneously. It may only be wired for a mono mic though possibly so you wouldn't get stereo from your PC if so.

Dug about a bit found this... some saucy language *warning*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5FgVrCgl6Y

Does this has AM radio? I couldn't see it in the description or on the picture.

Cheers OP!

Ordered one - Thanks

Someone bought 30 :smile:

Anyone know what the mic socket is for? (and don't say plugging a microphone in to!)

I resisted, wahooooo

Bought. Let's see what it's like :smiley:

Since when was "high power" a sufficient feature for a 10W piece of crap? lol

Yes has USB input.

Where do you put the cassettes?

thanks to Op! ordered.

Tempted..... Would have if it was DAB.

seems like a good deal to me, USB playback will be handy.
Bought and heat! :smiley:

Neither is mine... Totally don't need it, but ordered; p

This isn't worth £9.99 imo, I bought one a while back and returned it as it had very little volume output and it also sounded terrible at any volume.

High power and 10 watts aren't something that go hand in hand to me, high power and 600 watts maybe. 10, just no.

Sod it! Bought one anyway!

Bargain of the year, ideal for my shed come summertime.

Cheers OP

Bought.


BOOOOOOOOOOOOM! (box)

Wow the power of HUKD, over 350 sold in 1 hour !

All sold now ! I resisted

SOOL

Thanks OP (naio). Purchased. Great Post!

"Not high power"

if i use it when playing black ops will the other soldiers hear me?

very true, but for the original RRP of £50, I would expect something a little more than 10w. Or just to remove the 'high power' from the product name, as it really just is not. I just feel it's a little misleading.

I bought one, but now it's an Expired deal, what'd I miss? The eBay page still seems to be up.
Oh, have we all decided it's crap? I bet there's time to cancel my order...

A lot of small devices, dab radios, internet radios and small speakers are less than 3w output. However that said watts can be misleading anyway as its down to speaker efficiency and speaker layout etc. Hopefully this will provide reasonable performance but I doubt it would bother many ghetto residents.

Looks like the type of item you will be seeing in your local Cash Converters and Cash Generator in two months time for £40.

Got a 5 month old puppy.

Needed something small and portable to leave on for a bit of background noise, if we pop out for an hour or 2, and this looked ideal.

Asked the dog, he said 10W would be fine for this purpose. Purchased. Thanks OP.

​Thanks for the confirmation

Boomboxes, or ghetto blasters as they were called then, had proper quality sound in my day..... they would blow the sound of this outta the water.
Saying that though, they did cost a lot of dosh.

Those are tweeter horns above the outer speakers.

I wonder if the mic works with the bluetooth, so you have a big handsfree for your mobile.

Ha ha.... thats awesome.
I had a Crown make, single tape deck & radio one back in 1980, a massive thing. It cost about £120 and i had to get it on HP with my parents as a guarantor. Sound quality was well impressive with a high watt output.

Ha Ha

I was trying to remember my first and only radio/cassette deck, was nothing special..... had to do some google image searching and found it. My Mother used it whilst decorating about 6 months after they bought it me and accidentally spilt a paint pot over...mainly over sheeting put down but pooled all over the grills on the front.

Bonus was as she felt awful about it, next birthday they bought me a midi system.

Cant remember the Crown model i had....... only remember its flashing led lights that would pulse to the music, taping the top 20 from its radio sunday evening, and if i wanted to run it on batteries it would cost a fortune for 8 or 10 D Cells that would only last about 8 hours.
Halcyon days.

Thanks for the heads up, managed to get in before it went oos :smiley:

Dont know why deal expired..... still showing in stock for me.

Just ordered one now! Says "Last Few Remaining" thanks OP!

Yes, back in stock.

Never had one of those but was well aware of them at the time. Very expensive. I had one of these which was still amazing at the time and a bit more portable.



I still have a Panasonic cobra head portable with full remote control even the cobra head is motorised and remote operated.



If you want to add bluetooth to any existing audio device that has an aux input then these are ideal.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-Bluetooth-Music-Receiver-Adapter-3-5mm-Stereo-Audio-for-iPhone4-4S-5-Mp3/32382979559.html

If the device hasn't got a usb port you just need to find a 5V output from somewhere on the device to power it. Useful if you have a classic ghetto blaster but need bluetooth on it.

Thanks OP, for £10 posted you can't go wrong!

Good price these are £20 in home and bargain

I don't need one so I resisted and didn't buy... I have no where for it! But it does look so cool, so I had to vote hot. Great price and great style. Nice find op :smiley:

ha, in the 80's I blew the tweeters on my dad's brand new Philips hifi , he would have been mad..got a pair of replacement horn tweeters fitted . With the cloth grill in place nothing was amiss..
was a double cassette as well so front porch was was quite a popular hangout playing boardgames while making tape2tape copies

awesome, will do for the kitchen. ordered + hot

Interestingly these are all manufactured by [S.E.M Hong Kong], and all have the GB5000 model tag, but 'branded differently depending on the country.

In Australia and New Zealand they are 'branded' under audio giant TEAC moniker, and have a terribly cheesy ad to boot.

[Teac Freestyler Ad]

these also have two aux inputs and can run on a 9v DC adapter.

Interesting stuff, thanks :wink:

TEAC

OOS again. Hot deal though !

Named after that great bomfunk track I guess.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM

Ha, I used to have that MD Portable Deck in that video with that LCD Remote. The Sony MZ-R55.

Says mains operated and batteries, but does it come with a mains plug?

interesting about the tweeters cos this link is too long to tweet. yah get me

Glad its out of stock now....... every time i come back to this deal to read posts, i keep thinking about buying it, even though i know damn well the sound quality wont be good enough for me.
Thats the prob with HUKD, buying s*** you dont need or even want.

Yep, its certainly cheap, i'll give you that....... definitely worth a tenner.
But i'm trying to stop myself just buying stuff because its cheap.

And gone again 726 sold :confused:

More like it :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtodgOTQQF4

Excellent! :wink:

If you really want to combat that mindset, then this site is the worst place to be.

Has this got LED lights in the speaker enclosures that flash with the music?

Looking at that TEAC manual it seems to have 2 aux inputs, another rear usb for charging as well as a FM antenna connector at the back. Still no headphone socket though.

Cheap microphone to use with this for Karaoke £2.61 delivered found on amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002OERL52/?tag=ho01f-21

Got this today, very pleased with it for the money - its abit bulky but its going in the garage - even a usb port on the back of it to power your phone. It does come with a power adaptor so no need for batteries!

Amazing piece of kit. 2x 3.5mm AUX inputs on the rear. 1x USB Charging port for phone etc.

It also looks nice, very stylish and good quality.

Quick delivery. Seems really nice. More volume than I need but not much more. There are 2 rear firing woofers which I hadn't noticed before. The speaker enclosures in mine have the LED lighting mounts but no LED lighting but I think the box shows it without the LED mounts.

It would have been nicer if it had a telescopic aerial for fm reception but instead you get a wire but that would be my only criticism really.

I was using it to output the sound of my laptop and noticed the mic socket comes up as an input device via bluetooth and confirms its mono wired. Might be a handy feature for recording sessions using musical instruments where you can record wirelessly where ever your computer is.

One really good feature is using games/emulators on phones. Many games come alive with decent sound. Headphones are still better but certainly a lot better than the speaker in most phones if your not using headphones. Bass is much improved even over most headphones. If you run emulators for arcade machines you can get that nice deep bass sound that you used to hear from arcade cabinets.

Says on the label that the rear non mp3 usb is 500mA output but the mp3 usb is 200mA so if your charging a phone etc it will be much faster on the rear usb than the front.

I'm using kodi now to play a bulgarian radio station to the gb-5000 in the background while I use the laptop for general browsing. I'll probably be able to configure it so kodi connects to the speaker and my normal laptop speaker is used for general laptop sound but not looked into that yet.

Actually seems a much more useful item than I realised.

Sound quality is pretty good but maximum output level is not really ghetto blaster level but certainly much better than many small audio devices of a similar type.

One other thing is there is no obvious brand labelling on it at all. The Bush name is not on it. On the rating label at the back it may say Bush and also mentions Argos but that is it. The only logo on the front is a large Bluetooth logo. Considering the Bush brand is not seem as particularly good I prefer it this way to be honest.

Dont forget the groove along the top of the unit, a very convenient way to stand a tablet or phone while placing music via Bluetooth or via the AUX cable.

The sound quality is quite powerful, nice solid base, even on full volume the speakers do not distort.

If you look at the two Styrofoam packaging inserts, there is a cut-out shape where a microphone would be placed.

Just got mine delivered. Amazing bit of kit for under a tenner. Plenty of volume. Good FM radio. Bluetooth for your Walkman. 2 audio inputs. Takes USB or a SD card loaded with MP3s. Looks retro 80s style but full of modern tech. If this offer comes up again - get one.

I received mine today. it comes with the power adapter so you don't need to buy batteries. it sounds pretty good. loud enough for comfortable listening and overall I'm really impressed. the Bluetooth connects fast and has a decent range.

sound is OK, lacks some mid range but its fine for just having some music on and that, won't please the serious audio-philes though.

for £10 you just can't complain. I love it.

​it comes with mains plug included which was a nice surprise.

Mine worked great....for an hour :disappointed:

I guess as it's out of stock, no chance of a replacement either.

That's a shame :disappointed:
Mine works perfectly well

If its dead it could just be the psu unit. Unless you have tried batteries as well. Argos may offer a partial refund. I had that with a breadmaker that came with a slight chip/crack in the case from Argos outlet on ebay.

Try it again. Mine stopped unexpectedly, but after a fiddle it's working again.

Those are just passive ports.

Yep, tried again. Worked for a few minutes then sound cuts out and all controls stop working. Other times the screen comes on but is blank. Seems like a dodgy board. Oh well :disappointed:

Passive or active that's where the bass is coming from and its quite a lot of bass with the mid range and higher frequencies coming from the front. Whether they are directly wired to their own amplifier channels or just a circuit that splits the frequencies inside I don't know I've not looked. It's respectable bass performance though I think for a small unit.

Have you tried it with batteries or another power supply? Could be a power supply issue or could be a failed component regarding cleaning up the DC power supply when it gets to the PCB i.e. a capacitor. Best of luck.

the box was damaged during transit, volume controller has a crack on it. they don't have any replacements in stock.
by the way, there was no antenna or antenna cable supplied with it

Sounds like Argos have worked a returned item on you. I've had a "new" camera for £99 with a repair ticket stuck on the rear screen . There is a mains 9v plug in transformer and antenna in the box with mine. Picks up radio signals well without the tiny plug-in cable I got. Just annoying when you expected new.

Neither of those things. It is just a shape in the enclosure that helps the bass response of the single wide range speaker unit. There is no crossover or other circuitry, and no "woofer" of any kind. Just a simple "reflex" port, as found in many small speaker boxes. Enclosure design to enhance bass response is widely practiced at all levels of hi-fi quality.

The speakers are ported/vented, the system uses sound from the rear cone of the speaker to increase the efficiency of the system at low frequencies generated by the woofer.

That's pretty much what I said, except there is NO woofer. There is a single wide-range speaker each side, with a bass reflex port to enhance the bass response. Speaker enclosure design is a big subject. I used to build my own boxes, but the world has moved on a bit from the effort to get accurate reproduction of the original sound to pumping up the bass with sub-woofers and so on. You can see the same reflex ports on a lot of the smaller quality hi-fi separates speakers, often forward facing behind the grill cloth.

Lol, you and me both, I was building speakers 30 years ago. The Bush unit has 2x 4" full range drivers by the looks of things, it will cover the entire audio frequency range without the help of other drivers.

There will be no crossovers, no midrange or tweeters. Instead each speaker will have a small cone called a whizzer built in surrounding the voice coil and main cone, this design gives a full range including high and low frequency response. Including the port/vent at the rear is to increase the efficiency of the system at low frequencies, genius idea really. :wink:

I stand corrected. I can see from the Freestyler spec its just listed as 2 x 4" speakers but still the bass is driven to the rear with little bass it seems coming from the front. Very effective bass too for a little box. However from what you have said the speaker is effectively 2 speakers in one almost integrating the crossover circuit so the whizzer fires mid range and high frequencies forward and the larger main bass speaker has its bass directed to the back of the unit. Seems like the modern approach to cost cutting everything. Integrating 2 types of speaker in one actual drive unit.

The full range single driver cone design has been around for years, its nothing new, gets used for small compact design systems.

Just got mine and there is no mains power cord included and the box looked liked it had been previously opened.
Anyone else have the same problem?

Mine came with a 9 volt power supply, not a mains lead as such. But yes, you should have one. It was tucked into a hole in the foam packaging, along with a wire antenna lead and a stereo mini-jack cable.

Mine was complete with the correct accessories but definitely the box had been re-sellotaped on mine maybe 2 times before. Did look like a possible previous returned item.

Yes but not all full range speakers have whizzers. My original point anyway is that bass is driven to the rear of the unit through the rear ports and is very effective level of bass. I did assume it was some sort of cross over arrangement which clearly it isn't but there is good separation. 4" speakers are a good size for such a small unit.

I received mine yesterday. This is probably one of the best buys I have had in a while. So many features for the price, easy to use, Bluetooth, SD and USB work brilliantly and display track info. Mine was fully boxed and included the power adapter aux to aux cable and antenna wire.

I went to buy another today as so impressed but none left!

Available on Amazon for £20

It's all relative. 10 watts is a pretty decent output for a small boom box like this (if it's a real power figure). 600 watts would be a pathetically small amount of power for a large rock concert.

anyone else broken already? screen has gone on mine and they won't replace it, only refund :disappointed:

Mine is still holding strong :smiley:

Been on the lookout for one of these love the design, came up on Argos Ebay again for a reasonable price (£19.99) Everybody's still going strong?