[Ron Ramirez]

I agree with Arran. In fact I'll go a bit further and say that, based upon my prior experience many years ago, many of the three dial radios of the mid-1920s also have plenty of gain.

I recall a Freshman Masterpiece three dialer I once owned which was an amazing performer - and its audio transformers, all of which were bad, I had converted to resistance coupling. This was one of the first sets, if not the first, I had ever tried that trick on and I was very pleased with the results.