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It seems I have gone from one extreme to another this past week's time! From tubes to solid state!
This was an unexpected find at the Berlin, Ohio antique mall yesterday. I've been looking for one of these since missing out on two others the past few years and I now have a complete example for myself. It needs a little TLC here and there, but I got it with the speakers and even a stand for $49 plus tax. Radio part seems to work good, but I will need to somehow get into the dial bulbs later on. (I can see them and even touch the sockets with a finger, but can't quite get in there to pop them out and replace!) Will need the usual unfreezing of the record changer and belt for the 8-track. Sounds pretty good overall through the Allegro speakers. I think they are 2000's and actually have the screw on backs instead of the glued on type.
This was an unexpected find at the Berlin, Ohio antique mall yesterday. I've been looking for one of these since missing out on two others the past few years and I now have a complete example for myself. It needs a little TLC here and there, but I got it with the speakers and even a stand for $49 plus tax. Radio part seems to work good, but I will need to somehow get into the dial bulbs later on. (I can see them and even touch the sockets with a finger, but can't quite get in there to pop them out and replace!) Will need the usual unfreezing of the record changer and belt for the 8-track. Sounds pretty good overall through the Allegro speakers. I think they are 2000's and actually have the screw on backs instead of the glued on type.
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Wow, I have fond memories of one of those.
My mother, (and her 3rd husband, no I will not call him a father) bought one of those in early 1979 at the Air Force Branch Exchange store. When they set it up, I was absolutely ASTOUNDED at how it sounded.
The system had Bass! and I mean…. BASS! It powered out the notes like I had never heard before!
Well, I was not allowed to touch it (as per her husband) so I set out to try to make my own cheap piece of junk stereo sound as good. It just could not be done.
My grandfather later gave me a much better stereo for Christmas, but it still wasn't up to the standard of the Zenith Wedge and the Allegro 2000 speakers.
This was all before I got into collecting radios, though I did find my first antique radio in the summer of 1979.
Nice find! The only difference I see between yours and my mother's (she divorced him in 1980 and she was able to keep it) is the 8-Track has a record feature with VU meters.
My mother, (and her 3rd husband, no I will not call him a father) bought one of those in early 1979 at the Air Force Branch Exchange store. When they set it up, I was absolutely ASTOUNDED at how it sounded.
The system had Bass! and I mean…. BASS! It powered out the notes like I had never heard before!
Well, I was not allowed to touch it (as per her husband) so I set out to try to make my own cheap piece of junk stereo sound as good. It just could not be done.
My grandfather later gave me a much better stereo for Christmas, but it still wasn't up to the standard of the Zenith Wedge and the Allegro 2000 speakers.
This was all before I got into collecting radios, though I did find my first antique radio in the summer of 1979.
Nice find! The only difference I see between yours and my mother's (she divorced him in 1980 and she was able to keep it) is the 8-Track has a record feature with VU meters.
Seems Zenith made the Wedge for a while. I have seen these dated to the mid 70's and I have a Zenith console from 1980 that still uses the tuner parts from the Wedge, although it lacks the extra push-pull amp the Wedge has in it. (Yeah, I cracked my unit open and it has a separate amplifier/power supply in there and the diagram shows push-pull arrangement for the four output transistors.) The biggest challenge will be the BSR changer. It's locked up of course and it appears someone horsed the turntable as the spindle was 180 degrees out of position! I gently turned it back, but that could mean having to find a way to fix the loose tube. :(
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