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1958 Curtis Mathes "Great Dane" hi-fi console.These are famous and wanted among console collectors.I will pass on the Electrohome.The tubed Scotts and Fishers-GREAT-the early SS units shown--not so good-will need recapping!You will have to "shotgun" ALL of their electrolytic caps.And replacement styli and or cartridges,too for the TT's.
Again the microwave with the TV and tape player is just too much.Like how it says "solid state" on the control panel-----Does that machine have advanced circuits of some sort-SS for the TV and tape player-----BUT-- the microwave still has a magnetron and the TV has a picture tube-CRT.Never seen such a thing until now.Nuke the popcorn and lets watch "I Love Lucy"!!!
 
pretty much agree with Rex...

especially the Scott tube separates console is excellent. Not sure why the C-M would be sought after except for cabinet style, but not familiar with what "innards" it has but in general they were sort of run-of-the mill, and from what I can see of the all-in-one receiver this one would fall into that category imo.
 
There are a LOT of CM fans out there-agree that Scott,Fisher,Magnavox would be better than CM.CM had their exclusive followers.The CM Great Dane console had 6BQ5 PP output stages.The power supply for the Amp-tuner was on a separate chassis-it used a 5U4 rectifier tube power transformer,and filter caps.The CM cabinet was unique and nice looking.Liked how the amp,TT could be accessed from the front rather than lift top doors on the top of the console.
 
so about 17w/ch

for 6BQ5 in PP. Separate PS in a console is somewhat unusual, it was found somewhat more often in early to mid '50s Hi-Fi components. Tend to prefer designs with the 5AR4, 5V4G, current draw has to be accounted for but with indirectly heated cathode as has about a 10 sec.delay so doesn't hit input and output tubes with full-on B+ the way a 5U4, 5R does, also produces surge on the filter caps. OK if the design properly takes all this into account, but like the slow warm up rectifiers. Full B+ can be potentially hard on expensive output tubes... don't want to blow those NOS $2500+ WE 300B tubes in some SET amps (not that I'd ever have one!)... thanks heavens you only need 2 tubes for stereo!

the C-M IS a very attractive cabinet design, very nice console indeed.

BTW the 2 amps in post #47 are out of tape recorders, not sure of the brand.
 
5U4 vs 5AR4-yes-I replaced 5U4s with 5AR4 whenever possible.The only disadvantage to the 5AR4 is the lower voltage drop may be hard of filter caps in another way-the voltage may be too much for them.For the most part the 5AR4 sub worked better.However---5U4 is better than SS rectifiers unless the equipment has auto time delay start or separate switches for filaments and HV.Many new "G-Fiddle" amps are made this way-then there is one G-fiddle amp that allows you to choose between tube rectifier (5U4) or SS.Like the high end audiophool folks the g-fiddlists are a similar bunch.WE 300 tubes----so remember CASES of those at a surplus store about 35 yrs ago-They were JAN marked-WE was the maker.They were being sold for like 50 cents each!!!BRAND NEW-Should have bought the case and sell them for god knows what today-the audiophools will pay HUGE dollars for those today.It all started when the WE300 was an amp tube developed for the phone Co to amplify phone calls!
 
right...

and then the Asian collectors decided in the '70s/80s to worship at the altar of WE and prices went BALLISTIC - WE line amps and old theatre amps can go for 5 figures and NOS WE300B tubes now will regularly bring over 2 grand each! ... Rex you could have retired on that case!!

I've heard equally sad stories, like the Altec movie amp technician who told me he took pickup loads of amps and brand new tubes to the dump :-(
 
Yes--visit the Film-Tech forums and you can read about stories of old WE,RCA cinema equipment deep in theater basements or piled behind screens-that was a good retirement place for old gear before being dumpted.Now those folks are getting wise to the prices of the older gear and saving it and selling it on EBay,Craigslist.On YouTube they show some abandoned theaters with this sort of stuff-surprised some urban explorers interested in the vintage sound gear didn't help themselves!Movie stuff-you should see the sad pictures of classic 35,70 MM projectors hauled to scrapyards waiting sad fates with the crusher-when the theaters converted to digital LOTS of nice gear got dumpted-esp the sad picture of two beautiful Norelco AA 35/70MM projectors dumpted by the dumpster behind a theater that just converted.Those Norelcos were considered the BEST fiml projectors made!!!They may not know what they had-a Norelco buff or used cinema de3aler may have paid them big bucks for those!!!!Those machines weigh more than half ton each.They were built to last-and-last!!!
 
Re Brasillia

Imnot sure, but I think this is a Kent Coffey Perspecta cabinet, Broyhill didn't make cabinets for stereos unless I'm badly mistaken, I wonder who the electronics were made by, GE used William Tell woodcrafters, Sylvania cabinets were Heywood Wakefield and Motorola used Drexel.
 
Admiral Flight Deck ready for you!

I won't be flying anywhere soon, but it illustrates another marketing idea...that no one bothered to duplicate(as far as I know). I copied stills from the Admiral ad and pasted four together and yes...terrible photos.

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