01-08-2009, 08:55 PM
I did a search before posting this new topic, but the results just gave me more questions...
I'm loving my first Philco, a 46-200, and have been listening to it a lot since it arrived. Now that I've been listening to it a while, I've noticed that it makes an extremely quiet hum that seems to be coming through the speaker. It is so quiet that I can only hear it when the volume is turned all the way down and I am close enough to touch the radio. The noise doesn't bother me, but I don't want to let it cause problems for the radio.
FYI... The large filter cap has been replaced, and a couple of the paper caps have been replaced (with an orange drop cap). (The seller claimed he tested or replaced the paper caps, so I figure he meant the other paper caps tested okay.)
Do I need to be immediately concerned with the buzz, or is this normal for a low-end Philco? I probably would've never noticed it, except I have been fooling around with the radio so much. The buzz is quieter than the amplifier hiss in many of my old Panasonic transistor radios.
I'm loving my first Philco, a 46-200, and have been listening to it a lot since it arrived. Now that I've been listening to it a while, I've noticed that it makes an extremely quiet hum that seems to be coming through the speaker. It is so quiet that I can only hear it when the volume is turned all the way down and I am close enough to touch the radio. The noise doesn't bother me, but I don't want to let it cause problems for the radio.
FYI... The large filter cap has been replaced, and a couple of the paper caps have been replaced (with an orange drop cap). (The seller claimed he tested or replaced the paper caps, so I figure he meant the other paper caps tested okay.)
Do I need to be immediately concerned with the buzz, or is this normal for a low-end Philco? I probably would've never noticed it, except I have been fooling around with the radio so much. The buzz is quieter than the amplifier hiss in many of my old Panasonic transistor radios.
