12-22-2008, 06:29 PM
Good Evening
Iâm replying belatedly, and in this form of a second topic posting, because when I clicked on âpost replyâ I got timed out every time. Anyhow, thanks to you all for your advice and thoughts. Dougâs comments about Zenith reminded me of how Ekco over here in the 1930âs often made preposterous claims for ordinary sets. For example, even âmagic eyeâ wasnât grand enough for their tuning indicator (which was the same as everyone elseâs of course and what they sometimes called it). No, the Ekco item had to be called a âmystic eyeâ.
The Zenith's I have recently bought are the following:
10A3
7S 363
10S155
12U 158
I hadn't intended to get four but the same person had them all and wanted to sell them all and so obviously I bought them all. Like you do. As you can imagine Zenith consoles are rather rare over here; they tended only to arrive here as and when an individual bought them over personally.
Ed: as for styling I think the 10A3 is a bizarre mixture of styles and it doesnât work for me at all. The 7S 363 on the other hand looks very handsome to my eye, especially in the pictures Iâve seen of restored sets on your side of the sea, where the contrasting veneers are retrieved from decades of dulled finish and nicotine (?). I confess to loving the big black dial already. But what is the shutter/flywheel dial Ed refers to: is this the later set up where the dial itself changes with the wavelength selection?
I see the speakers on the other two sets are encased in a cone, presumably for acoustic effect? Does this work I wonder? One further question: did the motor tuning on the later sets work OK, or was it, like ours, a bit temperamental and gimmicky?
Itâs great to have made contact with you all,
Jonathan
Iâm replying belatedly, and in this form of a second topic posting, because when I clicked on âpost replyâ I got timed out every time. Anyhow, thanks to you all for your advice and thoughts. Dougâs comments about Zenith reminded me of how Ekco over here in the 1930âs often made preposterous claims for ordinary sets. For example, even âmagic eyeâ wasnât grand enough for their tuning indicator (which was the same as everyone elseâs of course and what they sometimes called it). No, the Ekco item had to be called a âmystic eyeâ.
The Zenith's I have recently bought are the following:
10A3
7S 363
10S155
12U 158
I hadn't intended to get four but the same person had them all and wanted to sell them all and so obviously I bought them all. Like you do. As you can imagine Zenith consoles are rather rare over here; they tended only to arrive here as and when an individual bought them over personally.
Ed: as for styling I think the 10A3 is a bizarre mixture of styles and it doesnât work for me at all. The 7S 363 on the other hand looks very handsome to my eye, especially in the pictures Iâve seen of restored sets on your side of the sea, where the contrasting veneers are retrieved from decades of dulled finish and nicotine (?). I confess to loving the big black dial already. But what is the shutter/flywheel dial Ed refers to: is this the later set up where the dial itself changes with the wavelength selection?
I see the speakers on the other two sets are encased in a cone, presumably for acoustic effect? Does this work I wonder? One further question: did the motor tuning on the later sets work OK, or was it, like ours, a bit temperamental and gimmicky?
Itâs great to have made contact with you all,
Jonathan
