06-08-2013, 05:16 PM
I have an 80. I rebuilt it some one year ago. Had a thread here I think.
Well, the volume is quite ... voluminous. It is loud on my loca station and I even have to turn it down quite a bit for it to be bearable.
But Hi-Fi it is not indeed. Just take a look at the speakert and it will tell you that it is not HiQ stuff.
It was The El Cheapo of the time, I think 18 bucks it was, and the reason d'etre for it was to l'ure customers and then maybe they buy something more adequate but of not....OK they bough this one, after all 18 bucks back then was something.
But the very solution of using the same tube as detector and regenerator at the same time
and no IF is the evidence of "buck saving ingenuity".
But again, it is not the quiet one.
So check the tubes, the way they are employed in this radio a weak tube will indeed make the difference between loud and not so loud.
Well, the volume is quite ... voluminous. It is loud on my loca station and I even have to turn it down quite a bit for it to be bearable.
But Hi-Fi it is not indeed. Just take a look at the speakert and it will tell you that it is not HiQ stuff.
It was The El Cheapo of the time, I think 18 bucks it was, and the reason d'etre for it was to l'ure customers and then maybe they buy something more adequate but of not....OK they bough this one, after all 18 bucks back then was something.
But the very solution of using the same tube as detector and regenerator at the same time
and no IF is the evidence of "buck saving ingenuity".
But again, it is not the quiet one.
So check the tubes, the way they are employed in this radio a weak tube will indeed make the difference between loud and not so loud.
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