Stephan Grossklass wrote:

The Germany-based Grundig IMHO was strongest in the early to mid, maybe
still late 80s. I have an FM tuner from this period, a T 7500 - it may
not have the high quality looks of others and lacks a few features
(switchable bandwidth, attenuator), but sonically beat the pants off a
Revox costing almost three times as much in those days ('83 or so). (And
it allowed entering 4-digit alpha tags for stations and had an 8-segment
signal strength display that was pretty much exactly logarithmic, both
not really features expected in a tuner with little more than a
middle-class price tag.) The thing is solidly built, the only point
where they cut costs a bit too much was the rectifier for the +5V
supply, which was a historic selenium type (!) notorious for failing.
Now guess what went south two hours after I got the thing...
Fortunately, this is good ol' macroscopic technology and not tiny SMD
stuff.
But, err, I digress.

Stephan

A selenium rectifier in a twenty year old solid state radio? I haven't
seen a selenium used in anything for more than thirty years, probably
close to forty.


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