Can't find the thread on vintage electronics...

[ovrphil]

Embassy House Stereo console - $550 (Phoenix)

Embassy House Custom Stereo - the furniture would make a great landing strip. Seriously nice looking traditional piece.

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/atq/4832575833.html

 

[ovrphil]

Westinghouse floor model turntable - $100 (Canton)

http://asheville.craigslist.org/atq/4862791473.html

 

[ovrphil]

Westinghouse record console - $125 (el monte)

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/for/4910504939.html

 

[ovrphil]

vintage westinghouse radio,record cabinet - $95 (Stroudsburg

http://poconos.craigslist.org/fuo/4900871050.html

 

[twintubdexter]

That "Titanic-sized" Embassy stereo in Phoenix is really nice. I wonder if it's still available? The musical-themed doors are classy. I always wanted one of those Garrard Lab 80 turntables with the Afromosia wood tone arms.

 

when were they this cheap?

 

 

[ovrphil]

Twintubdexter -

Joe If you're interested in the Embassy, maybe you can store it in the interim? Although a boat, it's a nice stretch of furniture and equipment. I wonder, though, just how it sounds in whatever room it would be set into? Just contact the seller to see if it's still available.

I've found alot of things on CL that I've passed on to others or just passed up for other reasons. A few days ago, I found a Solid State Pilot stereo console(been looking for one). I was about to go for it, and then decided the room isn't here right now.(attached photos of unit that sold after 3 days, just a few miles from me).

The Embassy six times the cost of the Pilot I wanted - easier to say no, and it would be nice to have room for something this big….but it has a lot of nice details.

Phil [this post was last edited: 3/2/2015-16:41]

 

[twintubdexter]

The way I look at it, if members on here can find room for 25 washing machines I can always squeeze in another console stereo (or jukebox or pinball machine.)

 

[twintubdexter]

Hesitated to post this ebay listing...

...especially since it's in non-working order, but this GE Spanish Colonial Revival console is so nice. General Electrc did have some very nice cabinets at one time. You could tinker around with it and it may come back to life. And then you could always call GE Factory Service and be told "what ya got there lady is a nice piece of firewood."

In Tempe, Arizona @$325. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301547416483?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX

 

[philr]

The TV in the reply 74 is on the cover page of a magazine that Doug (who's also a member here) scanned and sent on Videokarma. 

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=247545

 

[tolivac]

That Embassy Hi-fi system is indeed impressive-but all of those DOORS a flappin while you are playing it!the console does indeed look neat with the doors shut.Used to have a Garrad Lab80 TT-NICE-wished I still had it.One of the few "Changers" that had manual TT quality arm.

 

[112561]

I can hear all the hair turning white as the folks here read

the words "SOLID STATE STEREO" "ALL TRANSISTOR" on the control panel of the General Electric El Cortez............ dundunDUUUNNNN.............

 

I know from reading some audiophile opinions that the electronics of the GE are rather convoluted, but if someone managed to get this thing and restore it to working order, they may get a pleasant performer. OKAY, it's no Magnavox Concert Grand, or Fisher President, or components assembled from the finest materials in the known universe, but it deserves a tad more consideration than some GE turncoat's opinion of "a nice piece of firewood". How dare someone buy and enjoy something like this?? How dare someone believe it emits even one pleasing note? Cretins--morons........

 

 

 

[ovrphil]

I'm diggin' the Spanish Colonial GE and I don't really like Spanish Colonial. These cabinets are unique - USA made(vs China today) and well, if you have room, they do double duty as design and function, not that some would really care. It's so clean, compared to so many other GE consoles.

I thought it was worth assembling some photos here again.

PHILR - THANK YOU! I was looking for some brochures on RCA a few days ago after finding that Mark I RCA Vista tv/stereo combo. Thanks alot.

 

[ovrphil]

1959 Magnavox "Modern Concerto" Console Stereo Syst

AD: " Up on our Silent Auction is a 1959 Magnavox "Modern Concerto" Console Stereo System w/ AM/FM radio and record player. Two cabinets; model 1SR281F w/ S-49 stereo channel. All electronics in good, working condition. Bids must be entered in person at our store location. All items are donated to us from the local community, so we are unable to verify the history of items we receive. For more information, feel free to call or stop in!

Available at:
Gift and Thrift
731 Mt. Clinton Pike
Harrisonburg, VA 22802
show contact info

Monday through Saturday 9:30am to 5:00pm
Extended hours Friday nights to 8:00pm "

http://harrisonburg.craigslist.org/atd/4908361517.html

 

[twintubdexter]

audio/video topics

I really enjoy member's posts and comments presented here on Automaticwasher.org, much more so than on dedicated vintage audio sites. Threads here are much more interesting and seem friendlier too. Members seem to know something about everything. Many thanks.

 

[philr]

It's funny how some AW members share a lot of interests! A lot also like vintage cars and some even like vintage lawnmowers!  

 

[circlew]

My Aunt Doris had a Magnavox that looked like the one in reply #92. However, I don't remember it having another cabinet with speaker and record storage. Was that something that was sold separately?

I'm not sure what happened to it after she went to assisted living; it may be in storage with most of her other things she didn't take.

 

[tolivac]

The two peice Magnavox system was most like started as a single peice mono-then a few years later stereo came into being.Magnavox like many other Hi-Fi gear makers at that time offered ways to make the conversion to stereo without having to buy too much other equipment.In the unit above-the TT would be equipped with a stereo cartridge.Then a stereo amp added-and the second speaker-cabinet.It too may have its own amp.These are desirable among early stereo gear fans.Remember Magnavox put some quality Jensen/Magnavox speakers in those cabinets!-and they could have been bi-amped to top it off.

 

[112561]

When Magnavox entered the stereo era, you could buy the main unit already set up for stereo, it would have to be set for internal speakers only IF you never got the companion speaker/storage unit or matching television with the second channel speakers in it. You'd be able to hear all the program from your stereo records and they wouldn't be ruined because they'd be played with the stereo pickup. It would only come out mono like I say, if you only bought the main set. Then of course, there was a kit where you could adapt your mono Magnavox console FOR stereo play, and you could buy matching, or close to it second channel console. And for people who really didn't care if they had stereo or not, they could change out their monaural cartridge/stylus for a stereo one, so they wouldn't ruin new recordings. 

 

[ovrphil]

Exactly

Rex and Alan describe what I would like to get - the external matching speaker for my Magnavox model number 294H w/142CC amp. It has a dual 78/LP needle feature with three wires for stereo, and a "Both/External/Internal" speaker selector in the turntable cavity. This external speaker I'm looking for has an amplifier included in the speaker cabinet, but I'm not 100% on that.

 

[twintubdexter]

Phil,

What a very nice Magnavox Hi Fi. Gotta love those sliding glass panels in front and on top. When I was in school a friend's mom had one in black with gold veining in the glass. Having been a "Bobby Soxer" in her youth, she'd blast her Frank Sinatra records on it. I recall that it sounded just great.