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Choosing a Wall Box for an adapter/iPod/hi-fi system.
One of the problems with Jukebox wall box/adapter/ipod hi-fi systems, is that your choices are limited to the number of titles that the wall box was originally designed to offer. Usually a maximum of 200. True, you can make one selection a whole CD. But this isn't always the best option as you can't pick and choose the tracks, it's the whole CD or nothing.
I solved part of that problem by having two wall boxes.
To increase the options the Rock-Ola 507 is ideal, as it has a removable title card magazine, these can be changed in seconds.
There must be a lot of 507 boxes out there which are considered beyond repair, but the magazines are still serviceable. They are quite robust, can be dismantled easily for cleaning and re-assembled. The only weak point is the notched belt that turns the pages, these can become brittle and are inmy opinion being plastic, unrepairable if broken.
Not only that, they're made of "unobtainium,"
having obtained a third wall box cheaply as it was beyond repair, just for the magazine, I unfortunately found the belt broken. By luck, I was able to purchase another magazine in perfect condition from an enthusiast in the States, but got him to just post me the belt. "The postage for the whole magazine would have been more than the box cost, So I've now got 160 X 3 options.
These wall boxes are like "money in the bank" as in the condition mine are in they are now worth five times what I paid for them a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-HpQTrcDk
One of the problems with Jukebox wall box/adapter/ipod hi-fi systems, is that your choices are limited to the number of titles that the wall box was originally designed to offer. Usually a maximum of 200. True, you can make one selection a whole CD. But this isn't always the best option as you can't pick and choose the tracks, it's the whole CD or nothing.
I solved part of that problem by having two wall boxes.
To increase the options the Rock-Ola 507 is ideal, as it has a removable title card magazine, these can be changed in seconds.
There must be a lot of 507 boxes out there which are considered beyond repair, but the magazines are still serviceable. They are quite robust, can be dismantled easily for cleaning and re-assembled. The only weak point is the notched belt that turns the pages, these can become brittle and are inmy opinion being plastic, unrepairable if broken.
Not only that, they're made of "unobtainium,"
having obtained a third wall box cheaply as it was beyond repair, just for the magazine, I unfortunately found the belt broken. By luck, I was able to purchase another magazine in perfect condition from an enthusiast in the States, but got him to just post me the belt. "The postage for the whole magazine would have been more than the box cost, So I've now got 160 X 3 options.
These wall boxes are like "money in the bank" as in the condition mine are in they are now worth five times what I paid for them a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-HpQTrcDk


