Ya mean they don't walk around with a 19" television set sized cassette deck on their shoulders anymore?
I assume when he said boombox, it was probably a big BT speaker. But he was just slightly younger than me so he knew what a real boombox looked like.
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Last one I owned....good stuff. But far from a nigger ghetto blaster.
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Yeah I remember those. Fun times. Probably 10W total output.
Now? A 100W class D power amp fits in the place of a 5W STK PACK and is almost 100% efficient.
I built a few boomcases a few years ago...it was fun just taking something that was junk and making a retro hipster looking sound blaster.