Today when I came from the trip and was struggling to get the cabinet in my garage, my neighbour Rob saw it and came to help. Since he did not know I was fixing radios, and expressed interest, I invited him in, demonstrated a couple, and at the end brought him in font of my own 37-116 and let him listen to it.
There was no music programming on the local station but then during commercial there was some music. He was totally blown away, he coul not believe this sound came out of a 1937 built radio, and then kept asking how come his son's stereo sounds like crap compared to it.
I was pleased with the effect.
Thanks for hopefully grabing another person towards our hobby. Yeah, high fidelity is great!
No, he won't go in this hobby
but bringing the light of education in the masses is still a noble and useful thing to do
(Caution: Curmudgeon Alert)
HMPH. The only way you could get many folks to pay attention to an old radio would be to put an issue of
People Magazine with the Kardashians on the cover on top of the radio.
I wouldn't touch any old radio after that. Especially the one Kardashian sat on.
A cat would look good on top of old radio.
I hate glam....
Ya me too. Since I STOPPED watching the TV, it became easier to clearly see what was truly important and what was nothing more than visual Prozac for the masses.
I watch very little TV recently, mostly Newsy news, but I always hated that, and I do not get why the larget portion of news today is the life of celebrities, and reality TV with totlly dumb houswives of NJ or CA or...it is a cud to chew mentally, a dumbing numbing stupidyfying crap.
Keeping up with Kardashians...my Golly.
My TV generally swings between one of the news channels, usually Sun News, Turner Classic Movies, the MeTv channel, PBS, HGTV, and oddly enough the two cartoon channels. Just to show how out of touch I am, I would not be able to pick out a Kardashian from a police lineup.
But yes, a higher end console set like a 37-116 would produce excellent sound, although that is not exclusive to a Philco of course.
Regards
Arran
No, many of old high end consoles would do this, Zeniths or RCA included, it's just I have this one and so far this one is the best sounding one from the two heavy types I have (another one is 9-S-262 Zenith). I have loboys and hiboys but those are not quite at the same level although 111 sounds nice enough.
Better be a sturdy console for Ms. K. to sit on it.....
