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In Reply to: Experienced the classic "tubey" sound recently - and LOVED it! posted by LowRedMoon on May 3, 2007 at 10:48:52:
It of course sounds better than any radio you can buy today. You have to pay a lot for a modern radio that has an air dielectric tuning capacitor (most are now varactor tuned in a big chip, the high distortion type), and they aren't tubed and they don't have as big a speaker, and the speakers aren't that nice paper cone full-ranger with a whizzer cone. Seriously, a good simple table radio today costs as much as $150 and while they pick up stations better, it doesn't sound better.My radio also uses the 35C5 pentode (same Zenith make, so it's likely). I bought it at an antique dealer for $25 and all it needed was a new 12AT7. It's been going good ever since.
So yes, I understand your excitement. I really like mine and it's playing music in the background as I type.
Enjoy,
Kurt
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Follow Ups
- I have a Zenith C725L tube table radio, AM/FM, made in 1960. - kurt s 15:57:34 05/03/07 (2)
- I share you old-timer feeling. - cheap-Jack 08:41:29 05/04/07 (1)
- Correction: it should read "35L6GT". (nt) - cheap-Jack 08:43:53 05/04/07 (0)
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