Kevinpreston3
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Ok, did not want to mention this until it was actually here, actually worked, and did not get smashed to pieces in shipping.
Glad to say, this is EXACTLY what I have been working almost a year to find.
It's a three channel, Stereophonic Hi-Fi. My understanding is that this is a pretty high end Motorola model for the day, about 1960.
Its "three channels" are left, right, and an amazingly huge center speaker.
THIS THING CRANKS.
4 on the volume control is about as high as I can stand in my office. No distortion as I turned it up past that. There are so many cool features on this I don't even know where to begin!
The turntable needs some work done--I think a new cartridge as the needle kind of hangs there, and when you play a record it is about 1/8 the volume it should be. It might be some other amp issue.
There is a little light in the FM tuner section that seems to be part of a tube that shows signal strengh in green. My parents' Curtis Mathes has a round version of it.
The cabinet wood has one small dent and some scratches that I am planning to touch up, but not refinish. There is a light that comes on inside the bay when you turn on either the turntable or the radio.
On the bass control, there is a "boost" setting--when you put that on, you can feel the air move off the huge bass speaker.
I just got it today, and it was REALLY heavy to move. UPS left it in their warehouse since last week, so having quite enought of it, I went and got it myself.
It is amazing.
Glad to say, this is EXACTLY what I have been working almost a year to find.
It's a three channel, Stereophonic Hi-Fi. My understanding is that this is a pretty high end Motorola model for the day, about 1960.
Its "three channels" are left, right, and an amazingly huge center speaker.
THIS THING CRANKS.
4 on the volume control is about as high as I can stand in my office. No distortion as I turned it up past that. There are so many cool features on this I don't even know where to begin!
The turntable needs some work done--I think a new cartridge as the needle kind of hangs there, and when you play a record it is about 1/8 the volume it should be. It might be some other amp issue.
There is a little light in the FM tuner section that seems to be part of a tube that shows signal strengh in green. My parents' Curtis Mathes has a round version of it.
The cabinet wood has one small dent and some scratches that I am planning to touch up, but not refinish. There is a light that comes on inside the bay when you turn on either the turntable or the radio.
On the bass control, there is a "boost" setting--when you put that on, you can feel the air move off the huge bass speaker.
I just got it today, and it was REALLY heavy to move. UPS left it in their warehouse since last week, so having quite enought of it, I went and got it myself.
It is amazing.
