09-24-2024, 10:54 PM
Hi J Eibner,
Welcome to the Phorum. Lots of Phriendly Pholks with Phine (See a pattern here?) advice.
It is very much a shame that these "home entertainment systems" have gone out of style. It does look like a quality unit, and I hope you either find a home for it or keep it.
This is rather high end for Philco, RCA, Magnavox, etc. It is just a step below Fisher, Scott, etc. Is this solid state or tubes? The provenance, showing that this is one of 3 or 4 protypes is also very neat.
The use of a dual voice coil woofer was quite clever. Motorola had a similar setup except that they used a higher powered PP 6BQ5 amp to power a "center channel" and 2 lower power single end 6BQ5 amps for the left and right. I don't think that the center channel was an actual subwoofer with a cutoff at 300Hz like modern systems, I believe that they carried most of the left and right info as a "center channel" and, of course, most of the bass. there were several schemes for "center channel" back in the early to mid 1960s.
The Satellite speakers are unique. I have never seen them on American sets as a kid. I did see them on a neighbor's Grundig
The reverb is definitely cool. Fisher had that option, as did Fender guitar amps, using a similar setup. In my teen years, my neighbor had a custom console built, having one of the first solid state Fisher stereo receivers, a reverb, Garard changer, Ampex tape recorder and 2 12" Coax University speakers in Bass Reflex cabinets.
I have 4 units that have separately tunable AM and FM sections:
Electrostatic speakers were definitely high end, and still are.
Welcome to the Phorum. Lots of Phriendly Pholks with Phine (See a pattern here?) advice.
It is very much a shame that these "home entertainment systems" have gone out of style. It does look like a quality unit, and I hope you either find a home for it or keep it.
This is rather high end for Philco, RCA, Magnavox, etc. It is just a step below Fisher, Scott, etc. Is this solid state or tubes? The provenance, showing that this is one of 3 or 4 protypes is also very neat.
The use of a dual voice coil woofer was quite clever. Motorola had a similar setup except that they used a higher powered PP 6BQ5 amp to power a "center channel" and 2 lower power single end 6BQ5 amps for the left and right. I don't think that the center channel was an actual subwoofer with a cutoff at 300Hz like modern systems, I believe that they carried most of the left and right info as a "center channel" and, of course, most of the bass. there were several schemes for "center channel" back in the early to mid 1960s.
The Satellite speakers are unique. I have never seen them on American sets as a kid. I did see them on a neighbor's Grundig
The reverb is definitely cool. Fisher had that option, as did Fender guitar amps, using a similar setup. In my teen years, my neighbor had a custom console built, having one of the first solid state Fisher stereo receivers, a reverb, Garard changer, Ampex tape recorder and 2 12" Coax University speakers in Bass Reflex cabinets.
I have 4 units that have separately tunable AM and FM sections:
- A Silvertone "700"AM and FM Stereo receiver, built into one compact speaker cabinet. the other speaker for stereo is in another cabinet. (consumer level)
- A Scott Am and FM Stereo tuner. (Higher end). Meant to be used with a Scott (or other brand) Stereo Amplifier.
- A Pilot 602 receiver with separate AM and FM tuners
- A Fisher 800C receiver. This was rather top of the line, and received both AM and FM Stereo and FM Multiplex Stereo. (t has an output and input to add a reverb and also had a line level center channel output.
Electrostatic speakers were definitely high end, and still are.
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Best Regards,
MrFixr55
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