Model: RC-M80(JW)(R)(RH). FM-MW-SW 3-Band Stereo Radio Cassette Recorder. Other suffix variants exist.
Sandwiched between <a class="wiki" href="JVC" rel="">JVC</a>'s very popular RC-M70 boombox, and their top of the line RC-M90 is the RC-M80l. Sporting waffle style grills and a very unique quasi analog/digital style tuning, it is definitely something that for whatever reason, JVC tried and decided not to produce again as we are unaware of any other model <a class="wiki" href="JVC" rel="">JVC</a> produced before or after with this style of tuner. <a class="wiki" href="Citizen" rel="">Citizen</a> offered a model with a very similar tuner, perhaps possibly even same licensed design, and we have seen another aka of the Citizen model offered by an off brand, but clearly the same model as the one produced by Citizen. The tuner has an analog style tuning scale, but instead of a needle which moves by a string/pulley system, this one has a number of small dot light emitting diodes (LEDs) spaced along the scale. As the station is changed, a led dot will travel along the scale to a position representing the tuned station. Physically, this model is slightly smaller than, and almost as heavy as the RC-M70 model. Additionally, it has slightly less output power in comparison although
