Radios

I scored this piece from a close friend’s mothers estate sale after her passing. I have had this unit for about 16 years now. This is a huge console, it is all wood, and very very heavy. The unit is about 6 feet long. The speaker cabinets on the end each house one 15″ woofer, one 6×9, and a tweeter. This very big RCA has very BIG sound. The information on the back reveals that this unit was manufactured in 1976, and I suspect cost a chunk in it’s day. I would be interested in knowing exactly what these retailed for. Sitting on top is actually an older CD player that I have hooked up to this, I used to have a tape deck I had hooked up as well, but it was destroyed when the house I lived in lost it’s neutral leg on the power line. This is just a cool older stereo system, with big sound and awesome bass that would rival some higher end units of today, crank it up and you will have to place a folded towel between the CD player and the unit (if playing CD’s) the bass hits so hard it will literally make the CD skip. You just cant buy this kind of sound, in this kind of quality piece of furniture any more. Please enjoy Fleetwood Mac singing “Second Hand News”. Note the “studio strobe” bottom left hand corner of the turn table, any of you folks have any idea what it’s purpose was, I’d like to hear it. The only guesstimate I could come up with is maybe help you get perfect speed from the record, as if you turn the knob you can speed up and or slow down your record, it is a potentiometer.

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