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Sale Saturday. AK will be offline so I am posting today.
Sale Saturday. AK will be offline so I am posting today.
Arlington Heights IL E.H. Scott
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Could be a Metropolitan 16A. The square postwar cabinets are not the most fabulous, but the back would still be full of chrome plated goodness. I hope it gets preserved by someone as a complete set, and doesn't have its amps robbed.
Looks like a Metro to me as well. No row of preset buttons like the 800B has. I'm told that the Metropolitan is actually a better sounding unit than the 800B, though it lacks the whiz-bang features. The 800B in stock form doesn't actually sound that good. The tone stack is just miserable. Someone on ARF posted a way to modify it to have the bass and treble control circuit out of the back of the RCA book without changing tube lineup or doing much besides moving a few wires and adding a couple of caps. I did it to mine, and it makes a tremendous difference.
I went there about noon, and the cabinet had already been stripped of the electronics and speaker. The seller said that the guy who bought it "couldn't fit the cabinet in his car". They were giving away the cabinet for free.
Watch Ebay for the parts. I hate to be cynical but.
Any idea what the sale price was?
Any idea what the sale price was?
Windir5
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forgot where I seen the post last night... It was a guy on here saying he couldn't fit the cabinet of the scott in his car so he took the pieces out and left the cabinet, lol. Now that i look back through the history in tube audio the post is gone. 
Maybe it was a different section of the forum, can't remember. Either way it should be punishable by DEATH to dismantle one of these! Just my opinion anyways 
Maybe it was a different section of the forum, can't remember. Either way it should be punishable by DEATH to dismantle one of these! Just my opinion anyways
The Metropolitan is not a super high end or especially desirable rig like the pre-war Scott radios are. They're nice, but I seriously doubt it will ever command what the early ones fetch. It is a pretty nice wood box though, and as a console its still a pretty darn nice one.
forgot where I seen the post last night... It was a guy on here saying he couldn't fit the cabinet of the scott in his car so he took the pieces out and left the cabinet, lol. Now that i look back through the history in tube audio the post is gone.
So, not bobschneider's post above, but the person who bought it? :scratch2:
Don't know that an old radio is worth a human life, but I'll assume you mean that figuratively.
In any case, if I were him, I would delete my post too so as not to lose mah noggin.
ggregg
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Actually as nice as Scott chassis are, there is nothing wrong just displaying it the way it is. Mount the speaker in a nice cabinet and leave the amp and tuner out in all their glory.
I would have kept it whole, as that's the way I am, but I can see displaying all that chrome where everyone can see it if that's what one wants to do.
16A's and 800B's are still usually surprising cheap for what they are.
I would have kept it whole, as that's the way I am, but I can see displaying all that chrome where everyone can see it if that's what one wants to do.
16A's and 800B's are still usually surprising cheap for what they are.
There seem to be a lot more Scotts around than McMurdos. Thisone of course is postwar and I think one of their last chrome plated jobs.
My wife bought one of these -- the only audio equipment she has ever bought. We were at a estate sale run by acquaintances, and I had already refused to buy the thing when up comes my wife, swoons, and insists we buy it. Hunh...
Interestingly, it was owned by an executive at Pioneer out in California, and he brought it along when he moved to the east coast.
Interestingly, it was owned by an executive at Pioneer out in California, and he brought it along when he moved to the east coast.
ggregg
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Scott did buy the bankrupt McMurdo Silver in the late thirties but the sets they sold as McMurdo's were updates of the last Masterpiece designs that McMurdo had been selling. They were still great sets. But that only lasted less than two years and was done before WW2. I don't think that EHS and MS liked each other very much but there was definite respect. Scott basically bought them so someone else wouldn't ruin them, and it was the only competition in his market. Scott himself sold Scott Radio Labs around 1944 IIRC.
There were chrome Scott sets after the 16A and 800B. The 310 and 510 were made into the mid fifties and they had chrome chassis but were definitely a step (or three) down.
There were chrome Scott sets after the 16A and 800B. The 310 and 510 were made into the mid fifties and they had chrome chassis but were definitely a step (or three) down.
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