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New germanium transistors can be had on eBay from Russia for decent prices, but are not direct fits. If you're a YouTube fan shango066 has a couple videos dealing with replacing germanium transistors with silicon or Russian substitutes which are pretty interesting.
I agree though, repaired junk is still junk. I've had similar luck (or lack thereof) with low quality equipment. I restored a console with the same horrible bsr as that silvertone -$: two 50EH5s for outputs - and even worse speakers. It was definitely not worth the work, it just sucks!
On this topic, americanradiohistory is a website with a huge archive of old magazines. One of the is "RCA Engineer". Some articles are about designing console stereos. Once you see how much thought was put into the good ones (like RCA) it is very obvious why they are better than the bad ones!
Last edited by maxhifi; 05-11-2016 at 05:41 PM.
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