Fisher console or custom console with Fisher components?

[xbart]

Can anyone id this as a Fisher console, It has a X 100 amp and 100 R tuner. Looking through the pictures from the early 60s I don't see it, I believe that would be the time frame for these Fisher components. Are the Fisher consoles labeled?
-Brad

 

[larryderouin]

Fisher consoles usually havea large paper label on the back face with the Model # and a line drawing of the tube layout. This one has design cues similar to a Modern style 1959-61 Executive, however the cabinet doesn't match anything in the Fisher Website. And the components don't match anything in the site either in that combination. Quite possible that this is a one off custom build.

Larry

 

[joel27]

I sure like the look of it.

 

[tube-a-lou]

Hi,
It's really nice!

Tube

 

[Jailtime]

Sweet gear inside. :drool: I like the cabinet too.

 

[Stephen J]

Looks custom to me ! Did ya look around in the first thread at the top of this forum ????

 

[xbart]

Looks custom to me ! Did ya look around in the first thread at the top of this forum ????

Yes, that is why I asked as I did not see it there. Thought I might have missed it. Hopefully I'll be going to see it this weekend and I'm trying to do my homework.
-Brad

 

[Naptown Rob]

Very, very interesting. It looks like the same components we would find in a 1961 President, but the left/right orientation is swapped.
The tambour doors look right for a Fisher, as do the legs & the bottom of the cabinet. I'm wondering if it could be a style that we don't have documented.
Definitely looks like a keeper!

 

[Naptown Rob]

Hmm. amp is different from the above mentioned model... still a mysterious keeper, though...
The more I look at it, the more I'm willing to bet that there is (or was) a turntable on the right, & a reel deck on the left....

 

[xbart]

Hmm. amp is different from the above mentioned model... still a mysterious keeper, though...
The more I look at it, the more I'm willing to bet that there is (or was) a turntable on the right, & a reel deck on the left....

You are half right, it does have a Garrard table on the one side and record storage on the other.

 

[buglegirl]

Hiya,

Hmmm a type A MK-11 kinda like my Executive has. But I note no "Badge" in the well which is a Fisher trademark I think of that era.

EDIT:: If I had to place this in any category it would be sorta close to a 60/61 Statesman.

Frannie

 

[TheRed1]

Churchill Custom Hi Fidelity, Ltd. had showrooms all over the NYC area and advertised heavily in that market. If that console is originally from that area I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was one of theirs. They were a sort of al la carte console dealership where you picked out the cabinet to match your decor and then picked out a component group to suit your pocket book. If money wasn't a big concern then you'd obviously buy directly from Fisher.

I have no idea how good Churchill's cabinetry was but their component groups offered the budget conscious hi-fi consumer one heck of a good deal. In Nov. 1960 they advertised two Fisher-based groups, the less expensive of the two consisted of the following:

Fisher X-100, an unspecified Fisher receiver, Garrard Type A w/ a Shure M7D cart., Jensen Super 3-Way or Goodman Triaxial speaker systems. Audio Net: $533 - SALE PRICE: $295

I'm not positive this is a Churchill because I've run across a number of such companies offering Fisher components as part of a pre-packaged group which they would then install in their own cabinetry - including such others as Gray Sound Corp. and even furniture companies like Drexel which offered more than just Motorola. I do think it's likely to be some such company since I do not believe that is a Fisher factory cabinet.

AFTERTHOUGHT: Liberty Music, also in the NYC area, offered a similar product to Churchill AND they often advertised Widdicomb as their cabinet supplier - the same company Fisher used. If it's one of theirs that might account for its general similarity to Fisher's cabinetry.

 

[xbart]

Churchill Custom Hi Fidelity, Ltd. had showrooms all over the NYC area and advertised heavily in that market. If that console is originally from that area I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was one of theirs. They were a sort of al la carte console dealership where you picked out the cabinet to match your decor and then picked out a component group to suit your pocket book. If money wasn't a big concern then you'd obviously buy directly from Fisher.

I have no idea how good Churchill's cabinetry was but their component groups offered the budget conscious hi-fi consumer one heck of a good deal. In Nov. 1960 they advertised two Fisher-based groups, the less expensive of the two consisted of the following:

Fisher X-100, an unspecified Fisher receiver, Garrard Type A w/ a Shure M7D cart., Jensen Super 3-Way or Goodman Triaxial speaker systems. Audio Net: $533 - SALE PRICE: $295

I'm not positive this is a Churchill because I've run across a number of such companies offering Fisher components as part of a pre-packaged group which they would then install in their own cabinetry - including such others as Gray Sound Corp. and even furniture companies like Drexel which offered more than just Motorola. I do think it's likely to be some such company since I do not believe that is a Fisher factory cabinet.

AFTERTHOUGHT: Liberty Music, also in the NYC area, offered a similar product to Churchill AND they often advertised Widdicomb as their cabinet supplier - the same company Fisher used. If it's one of theirs that might account for its general similarity to Fisher's cabinetry.

Would these companies typiclly label their cabinets somewhere?

 

[TheRed1]

Would these companies typiclly label their cabinets somewhere?

I don't know; I've never seen one in person. Which is odd since you would have imagined that, given the price, there would be a ton of these out there. Maybe the cabinets were of such quality that they did not survive - they were often MUCH less expensive than the equivalent Fisher consoles.