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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: Forward in the past with old radios.
Post Subject: Memories of the past.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/19/2011
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 zako wrote:
That radio can be modified,,, to sound better,,Putting it under the kitchin cabinet is the wrong place,,

Sure, it might be modified and I am sure substantially improved but I have absolutely no interest or intention to do it. It is what it is, if I need better sound I have other radios. This one is just sexy looking piece of furniture sitting exactly where I want it to be.
 Paul S wrote:
Romy, this is a classic case of our "memories" telling us something that our ears refute.  Here, you are working against not only the initial limitiations of the design but also the effects of age on everything that did not get replaced during the refurbishment.  It might take a while to re-condition the speakers through use, and it might take a while to learn how to listen to this thing.

Actually there is not a lot of refurbishment in this radio – everything is more or less original. BTW, the radio has a “spectacular” rectifier – two pin EZ80 tube rectifier. The spectacular in it is that only heaters are connected to the circuit in order the tube lit, but the actual rectification is being done by a small SS rectifier on the another side of the tube socket. Someone did the clandestine modification…
 Paul S wrote:
As for the more modern table radios, I wish you good luck.  The most "determined" models seem to be the Boze Waveguide and the like, and of course they are all very bad, indeed.  The rest are pretty much random assemblages, as far as I can tell.  I wound up getting a tiny Kaito 1107, and I mostly use truly crappy headphones.  I may try a friend's M-50s, now that he only uses one pair and is selling his leftovers; but I think I would go for a more modern receiver with little BBC  or Jap "monitors", or something like that, before I went for an admittedly-beautiful old console, despite the fond memories of the great old operas on shortwave.

I do not know, there are plenty of good contemporary table radios without going to the Boze level…. Anyhow, I like your idea about the "memories" but not in the context how you used it.

The Cat

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