New Tube Table Radios
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Schmidlapper
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Great find, these are wonderful looking and they appear to have excellent specs as well. Notice the switchable antenna inputs for both am and fm? I have rebuilt several old Zenith table radios, so i could enjoy the tube sound where I need a table radio and these are another nice option for someone who doesn't like to tinker so much. I wonder if they receive as well as the classic era tuners can?
ferninando
Lunatic Member
yeah, I want to see inside.
roberts67
Volts Vinyl Tubes
Hello!
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. I use an AM transmitter to broadcast Pandora from my desktop at work into the AM antenna on my Bendix 526A. It essentially makes my vintage AM radio my computer speaker. Essential if you want to listen to actual music on AM these days!
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. I use an AM transmitter to broadcast Pandora from my desktop at work into the AM antenna on my Bendix 526A. It essentially makes my vintage AM radio my computer speaker. Essential if you want to listen to actual music on AM these days!
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
well... to their credit, the radios aren't embarrassingly expensive.
They're not "tube radios", though - they're modern solid state radios with vacuum tube amplification.
They're not "tube radios", though - they're modern solid state radios with vacuum tube amplification.
jaymanaa
RIP 1961-2018
Very cool, seems like I remember hearing something about an AA5 coming out with compactrons. Apparently there are 10s of thousands of certain number compactrons which would make the radios viable. It was a good article I read, and it answered a question that I always had. How come there are so many NOS tubes still around? The article said it was because the technology changed so quickly that tube production stayed in full swing way past what it should have. Thank God for small miracles I guess.:yes:
I like the fact the tubes are held in.... 1st I've seen with a spring.
Rod Beauvex
Look at the tiny bunny...
A thought struck my thick skull the other day:
We lived longer in the world of tubes than we did in the world of discreet transistors, which began to be overtaken by ICs much sooner after their introduction.
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
It (the use of springs or other gizmos to help keep tubes socketed) was common in 1960s Japanese hardware -- and in any implementations where the tubes were sideways or upside-down (e.g., some gee-tar amps).
I had the Stereo and Mono Walnuts of them when Quest for Sound was involved. Nice to see it still around. Still have my mono one, stereo one went to a friend. I thought the mono one sounded better. I wonder if there has been any changes to these models :scratch2:...they look identical although I see the mono one isn't available in walnut now.
Ours sits in the dining room. My wife loves the look of it. I bought a really cheap subwoofer for it and hid it under the table the radio sits on. We've had it for 8 yrs now and not a single problem.
Ours sits in the dining room. My wife loves the look of it. I bought a really cheap subwoofer for it and hid it under the table the radio sits on. We've had it for 8 yrs now and not a single problem.
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jaymanaa
RIP 1961-2018
Agree, it's definitely a looker. :yes:
chicks
Lunatic Member
Oh, that looks nice! My little Tivoli Model One is very much outclassed.
DannyboyNYC
Danny Boy NYC
There seems to be a lot more additional styles available here from the same designer - http://www.audio01.com/eng/product.htm including consoles. Don't know how many are tube powered though.
I would really like to know if it sounds as fine as it looks!
Very nice little "tube" radio!
Very nice little "tube" radio!
