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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 10, 2017 19:18:50 GMT
Nice! pretty much a modern day reworking of the classic KLH 1965 (year) Model Twenty One (21) designed by Henry Kloss almost 60 years ago. The original 1965 design: The Tivoli Model one: Nice man. There's a fix I've seen for the transformer hum, but I can't get the back off. I basically use it for 2 classical stations and switch back-forth. If I'm getting hammered and playing Bowie I plug the cd in but it's a bit gruesome, too much voltage maybe. The headphone out is very quiet and smooth from straight radio if bass shy. A question-do London Uni stations exist? They did in NZ..anyhoo Seems quite straightforward to pull it apart:
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 10, 2017 19:49:58 GMT
Here's another one of mine.... a Hacker Sovereign IV RP77-MB..... the last of the Sovereigns and the end of the Hacker Radio company too They produced the Sovereign IV from 1977 - 1979 and then the factory burnt down. They had been experiencing serious financial problems and were paring their radios down to "bare bones", the Sovereign IV had a huge cabinet because there was an alternative version using the same cabinet but with a built in cassette deck (yes, a cassete deck!) so plenty of "room" in the standard Sovereign IV. I reckon (as do quite a few) that the "fire" was the only way to save the business and the Hacker name / Trademark was bought out by the Roberts radio company...... the Sovereign IV was one of the last radios Hacker made, quite sad really. I'll take a few "inside" shots of the Hacker Sovereign iii and you will clearly see that they were desperately trying to save pennies with the Sovereign IV. Having said that, the Sovereign IV will stay perma locked onto an FM station and will quite literally rattle the windows at high volume..... the extra cabinet space = a better ability for the speaker to shift air. Not a bad speaker either, your typical English made Goodmans (out of Wembley / London) elliptical type paper cone. Just looking for the missing LW button and it will be pretty much mint The last of the great Hacker radios: www.radiomuseum.org/r/hacker_sovereign_iv_rp77mbrp_77.html
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 10, 2017 20:14:56 GMT
Quite a few more to come...... just have to take a duster over them Listening to Jo Whiley on Radio 2 as I type this on the last ever Hacker Radio / Sovereign IV RP77MB...... living the dream ;-) No, seriously...... I hate f**kin' disc jockeys, it's like somebody sitting in your house and playing their musical tastes on YOUR equipment and yapping a lot of shite at the same time. That's the only downside of radio...... you are pretty much "tuned" into something that you don't necessarily want to be tuned into Jo Whiley? Who the f**k is that? Let me do a "Google" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_WhileyOh yes, I know who she is now..... seen her at Glastonbury with a microphone in her hand..... apparently quite the "in thing" with radical Radio 2 listeners. I prefer Nigel Odgden "The Organist Entertains" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wr9w he gives you organ, lots of organ and nothing but the organ....... you know what you're getting from Nigel........ ORGAN! Anyhoo........ off to listen to some high res rips and then off to bed with a cooked chicken and a packet of salt. (living the dream)
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Post by PinkFloyd on May 17, 2017 20:14:06 GMT
Another radio was added to my collection today and it took me by surprise! I was in the bike shop this afternoon and my good friend Sam cleared the counter and pointed to an item I may be interested in on the floor....... This box? No it wasn't the box.... this bucket, no it wasn't the bucket..... I then spotted a Grundig Yacht Boy Radio and said "this?". I put it on the counter, had a listen and it was sounding as sweet as a nut. Anyhoo.... what was Sam doing with a Radio? Long and short of it (excuse the pun), the radio belonged to his Mother In Law who sadly passed away last December and he wanted me to have it as he knew it would go to a good home and It would be cherished and cared for under my watch. That was the last thing I expected today, coming home with a Grundig Yacht Boy radio. At first I thought it was a Yacht Boy 210 but on closer inspection it's actually a Grundig Yacht boy 209 so quite a rare Yacht Boy in the scheme of things...... quite a short run of them were made in 1969 and the run ended in 1969 so the 209 was in production for one year only. It appears to be operating perfectly and locks onto signals no probs..... it even has AFC (AFC was quite pioneering in 1969!)....... runs on 6 x D cell batteries but you can convert it to run on a PP9, there's a spare PP9 hook up lead inside which was intended to be hooked up to the "optional" Grundig PSU.... thanks to Tom_I for that tip: www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=116754More to come on this one, it's singing away on RAD2 ATM and sounding very nice indeed...... will post some photos tomorrow. Mike.
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