{"title":"Vintage Audio Prints","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintage audio prints celebrating the golden age of hi-fi, boomboxes, and portable sound. From the Sony Sports CFS-902 and Lasonic TRC-931 to the Sony ICF-SW1 shortwave radio, each illustration captures machines built when audio equipment was designed to be seen as well as heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by Simon Tyler, author of the forthcoming book Gizmo (Laurence King, 2026). Produced on 250gsm archival matte paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor audiophiles, collectors, and anyone who remembers when music had weight.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jvc-rc-550-el-diablo-gizmo","title":"JVC RC-550 El Diablo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe JVC RC-550 earned its nickname \"El Diablo\" on the streets of New York. Released in 1977, it was one of the first truly massive boomboxes - a portable sound system powerful enough to anchor a block party, distinctive enough to become a status symbol. It arrived just as hip-hop was being born in the Bronx, and the two grew up together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis illustration captures the RC-550's imposing presence - the twin speakers, the array of silver knobs and sliders, the sheer physicality of a machine built to move air. It's a monument to an era when music was something you carried with you and shared with everyone in earshot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (70 × 50 cm | 28 × 20 in)","offer_id":45864089616545,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-JVC550-L-700x500-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (100 × 70 cm | 40 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864089649313,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-JVC550-L-1000x700-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-JVC550-mockup-1-2800px.jpg?v=1763576497"},{"product_id":"sony-icf-sw1-radio-gizmo","title":"Sony ICF-SW1 radio","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1988, if you wanted to know what was really happening in the world, you listened to shortwave. The BBC World Service, Voice of America, Radio Moscow, Deutsche Welle - these broadcasts cut through propaganda and censorship, reaching listeners behind the Iron Curtain, in remote villages, anywhere a radio could pick up a signal bouncing off the ionosphere. Sony made a receiver that could tune them all in, and fit in your shirt pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ICF-SW1 measured just 120 x 71 x 23mm - about the size of a cigarette packet - yet covered everything from long wave through medium wave to the entire shortwave spectrum up to 30 MHz, plus FM stereo through headphones. A microprocessor-controlled frequency synthesiser let you punch in the exact frequency you wanted via a numerical keypad, then store ten favourites in memory. The LCD showed your precise position on the dial, anywhere from 150 kHz to nearly 30 MHz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was a tool for the informed traveller, the foreign correspondent, the business executive who needed to know what governments weren't saying. In hotel rooms from Tokyo to São Paulo, the ICF-SW1 could pull in broadcasts that local media wouldn't touch. Sony marketed it as the complete system - receiver, active antenna, mains adapter, all nested in a compact carrying case. The whole world, packaged for your briefcase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (70 × 50 cm | 28 × 20 in)","offer_id":45864088371361,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-SONICF-L-700x500-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (100 × 70 cm | 40 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864088404129,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-SONICF-L-1000x700-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-Sony-ICFSW1-print.jpg?v=1767884796"},{"product_id":"sony-sports-cfs-902-gizmo","title":"Sony Sports CFS-902","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the mid-1980s, Sony had a problem. The Walkman was everywhere - but runners were complaining that all that jogging made their tapes sound wobbly, and a splash of sweat could kill the electronics. The solution arrived in 1983 with the Sports Walkman WM-F5: impact-resistant plastic, rubber seals around every opening, and a colour scheme borrowed from underwater diving equipment. That unmistakable banana yellow became the uniform of the fitness generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe CFS-902 brought the same philosophy to the boombox. Where its grey and silver siblings were designed for bedrooms and living rooms, this was built for beaches, poolsides, and backyard barbecues. The sealed buttons, gasketed cassette door, and splash-resistant construction meant sand and spray wouldn't end the party. The yellow casing wasn't just a design statement - it was a promise of durability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sony Sports line arrived at the perfect moment. The aerobics boom was transforming how people exercised, and suddenly everyone wanted a soundtrack for their outdoor lives. Julia Roberts would later make the yellow Sports Walkman famous in \u003cem\u003ePretty Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, but by then millions of units had already found their way to beaches around the world. The CFS-902 was the boombox for people who wanted to share that music with everyone else on the sand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (70 × 50 cm | 28 × 20 in)","offer_id":45864088174753,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-SON902-L-700x500-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (100 × 70 cm | 40 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864088207521,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-SON902-L-1000x700-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-Sony-Sports902-print.jpg?v=1767885496"},{"product_id":"lasonic-trc-931-gizmo","title":"Lasonic TRC-931","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the boombox hierarchy of the mid-1980s, the Lasonic TRC-931 occupied a peculiar throne. It wasn't the best-sounding - the Sharp GF-777 and JVC M90 could blow it away. It wasn't the most expensive - at around $100 in 1986, it was firmly affordable. But for sheer visual swagger, nothing came close. The chrome speaker grilles. The twin telescoping antennas. The rainbow of LED VU meters dancing with the beat. The TRC-931 looked like what a boombox was supposed to look like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced in Taiwan by Yung Fu Electrical Appliances from 1985, this was the ghetto blaster as street theatre. Twin cassette decks for seamless mixtape playback. A five-band equaliser. A \"beat switch\" for that extra punch. Phono inputs so you could connect a turntable. Every surface packed with knobs, sliders, and buttons - form following function following attitude. When breakdancers set up their cardboard on the sidewalk, this was the machine providing the soundtrack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe TRC-931 became the definitive boombox silhouette in popular culture. It appears in \u003cem\u003eClerks II\u003c\/em\u003e, in Korn's \"Got the Life\" video, in The Lonely Island's \"Boombox\", in Cher Lloyd's \"Swagger Jagger\". Mint examples now sell for $400-800 to collectors. Fashion designer Paul Smith redesigned a modern version in 2011. Among boombox enthusiasts, it's simply known as \"The King of Bling\" - proof that sometimes the most iconic design isn't the most sophisticated, just the most unapologetically itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (70 × 50 cm | 28 × 20 in)","offer_id":45864088109217,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-LAS931-L-700x500-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (100 × 70 cm | 40 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864088141985,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-LAS931-L-1000x700-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-Lasonic931-print.jpg?v=1767885880"},{"product_id":"jvc-rc-m90-gizmo","title":"JVC M90","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe JVC RC-M90, released in 1981, is arguably the finest boombox ever made. Four speakers, a built-in mixer, detachable satellite tweeters, and a sound that justified its considerable weight. It became a fixture of early hip-hop culture and remains one of the most sought-after portable stereos ever produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Gizmo print captures the M90's imposing front face - the symmetrical speaker grilles, the central cassette deck, the array of sliders and dials that gave it the look of a professional mixing desk shrunk to portable size. A machine that took music seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (50 × 70 cm | 20 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864085880993,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-JVM-P-500x700-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (70 × 100 cm | 28 × 40 in)","offer_id":45864085913761,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-JVM-P-1000x700-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-JVC_M90_mockup-1.jpg?v=1771858305"},{"product_id":"braun-tp1-gizmo","title":"Braun TP1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1959, Dieter Rams combined a transistor radio and a record player into a single portable device and covered it with a clear perspex lid. The Braun TP1 was not the first portable record player, but it was the one that made the category look serious. Clean white casing, minimal controls, that transparent cover that let you see the mechanism rather than hiding it - design as honesty rather than decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe TP1 sits in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is one of the objects that made Rams' reputation, and one of the clearest early examples of the design language that would eventually influence an entire generation of product designers, including Jony Ive at Apple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Gizmo print captures the TP1 in precise technical illustration - the compact rectangular form, the perspex lid, the record player and radio that proved utility and beauty were the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (50 × 70 cm | 20 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864083751073,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-BRTP1-P-500x700-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (70 × 100 cm | 28 × 40 in)","offer_id":45864083783841,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-BRTP1-P-1000x700-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-Braun-TP1-mockup-1.jpg?v=1773930698"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/collections\/Axisophy-JVC550-mockup-1-2800px.jpg?v=1771504839","url":"https:\/\/axisophy.com\/collections\/vintage-audio-prints.oembed","provider":"Axisophy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}