Bob Dobbs wrote:
Mike K. wrote:
I just find something magical about
listening on a real radio!

Nostalgia for me is smelling the dust cook off the tops of the tubes and hearing
the first hums and crackles as you wait for stations to pop out of the old paper
cone speaker. Of course the E1 is a real treat after one of those sessions.

I still have those feelings. The new radios seem to be "appliances"
rather than radios. Nothing beats sitting up late in a dark room with
the old tube radios glowing, feeling the heat from the tubes, turning
the dials slowly, and THEN getting a DX station!