Vintage TV's, a new hobby?

[dalangdon]

Motorola Vibrasonic

I have a Motorola Console Hi-Fi with something called a "Vibrasonic System" that is basically a reverb. It's kind of campy, but that's about it. I never use it.

The console is HUGE. Probably too big for my living room, to tell the truth, but it's too also way cool



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[Kevinpreston3]

Dan that's awesome...

Looks great...

 

[tolivac]

WOW-SUPER COOL-also loved the modern furnishings in the room-they sure match that Motorola HI-FI in style and vintage.
One of the radio stations I dealt with used a reverb system for their AM and FM programming--It was a "plate" system-A send transducer was at one end of a 4'x8' panel of steel-like a speaker coil-then at the other end was a pickup transducer that picked up the signal from the other end-gave a wonderful reverb effect.The unit was enclosed in a very heavy MDF board cabinet. had a crank on the top that varied the tension on the metal plate to vary the reverb effect.This then gave the slight reverb effect on announcers voices.the unit was built in Switzerland by the EMT company.Recording studios liked these plate reverbs as well.Was a neat unit to work on.It was so heavy needed four people to move it.

 

[kenmore1978]

Size

"The console is HUGE. Probably too big for my living room"

Actually, that's about the size of my Granparent's Packard Bell console. That's relatively "small" for a console. They came WAY bigger than that, ESPECIALLY if a TV was included.