I like mine.

This radio takes a beating in this group. It is surely no match for the
original upon which it is supposedly based. (The original was in a bakelite
cabinet, for example.)

Nevertheless I, too, enjoy its sound when listening to a CD or tape through
it.

I live in the middle of R.F.-drenched San Francisco. The front end gets
swamped so that the shortwave bands are not of much use.

I performed a bit of surgery on it to get the FM band to work acceptably: I
severed the wire that couples the FM front end to the mains cord as an FM
antenna. (You need to do this with most consumer-aimed FM radios.) Now I
can add just as much or as little antenna as I need through the antenna
terminals.

Originally, much over-priced. Turning up at more reasonable prices now.

Norm Lehfeldt

"Mysterion" wrotf:

I mostly got it because it reminded me of my parents' old Telefunken Hi-fi
and looks good on my coffee table, but it sounds great with a CD player
plugged into the aux jack.
And I figure that 50 years ago folks were using this to hear the world, so
why shouldn't I?

I was thinking about a wire antenna running along the upperside of a ceiling
beam.

Ideas?
Comments?
Anyone already have one?