Hi, I picked up a beautiful Grundig console for a friend, and I’m trying to figure out what all the parts are in the cabinet. I’ll comment on each picture, please help me if you can. The end goal is to have a working console stereo for my friend to put in his historically registered home.
Here’s a shot of the outside, the wood is very beautiful, I’m casting some shadows.
The turntable with the add on SME arm is coming out. My friend wants to replace it with a full full auto turntable.
Here’s the preamp with am, fm, and shortwave radio capabilities
Saga reel to reel, I assuming this is dead. When I pulled the covers off the back, it was completely unhooked.
I have no idea what this box does. It might be an external phono preamp. It is located under the record player with only 2 cords that plug in, and a power cord going to it. The 2 plug in cords go back to the preamp.
Amp- 4 EL84 tubes, it looks like the speaker outputs are coming out of the lower left corner, the input is coming in the upper left, and the power in the middle on the right.
Preamp- the first thing I notice is a missing tube. The gray and brown plug in wires on the lower right corner are coming from the mystery box. The previous owner said it only played on one channel. Think it’s because of the missing tube?
Mystery box #2- it had the metal cover on it. One wire is all there is, and it wasn’t connected to anything. It has a plug that looks like a 9 pin tube. It was sitting loose under the reel to reel. I can’t figure out where it would plug in except for that open tube socket on the preamp, but the cord isn’t long enough, and there is no mounting holes for it.
Here are the decals from the back. Notice tube layout for the preamp doesn’t really match the preamp tube sockets.
The goal is to get this fired up and see what the condition of the amp and preamp is. Then work on getting a full auto turntable retrofit in place of the existing manual turntable. If the reel to reel works, it will stay in place, if not, it will probably be removed for album storage. My friend wants to add Bluetooth, so he can stream pandora or Spotify. If I can get it going and see what the condition is, then I can decide if recapping the amp and preamp is worth the effort and expense. I’m sure the speakers will need recapped to, but the key is getting it turned on to evaluate the condition. Should I just Fire it up????
Onebean
Here’s a shot of the outside, the wood is very beautiful, I’m casting some shadows.
The turntable with the add on SME arm is coming out. My friend wants to replace it with a full full auto turntable.
Here’s the preamp with am, fm, and shortwave radio capabilities
Saga reel to reel, I assuming this is dead. When I pulled the covers off the back, it was completely unhooked.
I have no idea what this box does. It might be an external phono preamp. It is located under the record player with only 2 cords that plug in, and a power cord going to it. The 2 plug in cords go back to the preamp.
Amp- 4 EL84 tubes, it looks like the speaker outputs are coming out of the lower left corner, the input is coming in the upper left, and the power in the middle on the right.
Preamp- the first thing I notice is a missing tube. The gray and brown plug in wires on the lower right corner are coming from the mystery box. The previous owner said it only played on one channel. Think it’s because of the missing tube?
Mystery box #2- it had the metal cover on it. One wire is all there is, and it wasn’t connected to anything. It has a plug that looks like a 9 pin tube. It was sitting loose under the reel to reel. I can’t figure out where it would plug in except for that open tube socket on the preamp, but the cord isn’t long enough, and there is no mounting holes for it.
Here are the decals from the back. Notice tube layout for the preamp doesn’t really match the preamp tube sockets.
The goal is to get this fired up and see what the condition of the amp and preamp is. Then work on getting a full auto turntable retrofit in place of the existing manual turntable. If the reel to reel works, it will stay in place, if not, it will probably be removed for album storage. My friend wants to add Bluetooth, so he can stream pandora or Spotify. If I can get it going and see what the condition is, then I can decide if recapping the amp and preamp is worth the effort and expense. I’m sure the speakers will need recapped to, but the key is getting it turned on to evaluate the condition. Should I just Fire it up????
Onebean