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Telefunken Hymnus Hi-Fi 5014
Picked up a Telefunken console today. Not my usual thing but it's a tube model and a quick ebay search showed it has some value and the price was right. It was labeled as not working. Turns out the power plug was pulled out from the back of the receiver section when it was tested. It worked fine for me after fixing that. The tuner dial does not work on the AM and SW bands. Looks like something has it jammed up as the dial string starts to move when the tuning knob is wiggled. FM works and sounds great. Might be a speaker in the bottom section out as well. A few cosmetic issues with the veneer and a nice sanding and refinish and it should be a bit above just presentable. Missing one of the small sliding doors. Would love to find one of those. All in all a nice interesting piece.
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Great Find
That is really in GREAT shape for only $5.00 But I gotta ask, where the hell are you gonna find room for that thing???? Nice score though!
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I like that one Mac! You could probably make a comparable door for it, just find the right stain. And if you don't have room for it..... I can probably find some!
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Every time I see one of these German consoles posted I curse the fact that I don't have room for one. Gorgeous, Mac. Nice catch.
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Thanks guys. Got my eye on a nice Grundig of the same vintage. Much nicer condition though. I'm anxious to get into the Tele and see if I can get the other bands to work. I doubt I'll use them much but I just want it to work as it should. Cool thing about it is the wife really likes it.
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All put together and serviced, that big Tele should move some walls Mac. Damn! This is just the kind of set that really gets my blood pumping. Obviously, the makers intended to produce something really special, and they did. Frankly, I'd love to hear it...love to have it.
I'm on the lookout for a big Telefunken, Grundig or Saba stereo, preferably one with that typical German highly lacquered cabinet and multi-speaker construction; like a big Grundig Majestic. Doubt I'll find one for $5.00 though! |
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Uhhhh....Me LIKE !!! Uhhhh...Me WANT !!!!.....Uhhhhhh.......
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Nice Tele... I just picked one up myself
Very Nice Tele Console. I just picked this one up a few weeks ago. It is similar to yours but it doesn't have those cool side speakers. It's a Hymnus 5216Wk. It was in excellent shape and after I brought it up on a variac it sounded amazing . Pulls in stations really well and it all works. It came with a R2R too. I would like to do a preventive recap but can't figure out how to get it out of the cabinet. Please let me know if you figure it out. A very well made console.
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That Telefunken console looks great, and with a bit of work (I don't know how much; you can probably find a replacement for that bum speaker if indeed it is defective [might just be disconnected], but the dial drive might be difficult to get working as some of those big German consoles had very complicated dial stringing arrangements), it should be working as well as it did when it was new. My late grandmother had a console stereo something like that which she bought at an estate sale in the early 1970s (not a Telefunken, although the entire unit appeared to have been made in Germany owing to the German markings on the back cover and front panel, in addition to European tube types, e. g. it had an EL84 vertical tuning eye tube and so on). I also got an old Grundig model 2168 hi-fi multiband radio from a friend of mine in the mid-1970s. That set was in bad shape (dial scale and drive mechanism missing, tuning eye flopping around in the cabinet, speaker mounting board broken, etc.) when I got it, but I managed to get it working for about five years. I even patched an old Webcor R2R tape recorder into the amplifier (through a DIN connector at the rear of the radio chassis) and wound up with a small, reasonably good-sounding (IMHO) mono audio system. Something (don't remember what) went wrong with the radio, however, eventually to cause me to trash it. This radio was also obviously made for the German market, as the FM band tuned only from 88 to around 100 MHz or so. My grandmother's console (the maufacturer and model name were Edelmuth Imperial respectively, IIRC), however, tuned the entire FM broadcast band from 88-108 MHz, so it may well have been an export model. It worked very well until about five years after her death, at which time it developed a very loud 60-Hz hum, probably due to defective filter caps. The tipoff to this set's German roots, again, was the fact that the shortwave tuning scales were marked 5,5 - 6,0 - etc., using a comma rather than a decimal point between the numerals. Odd, IMO, considering the set tuned the entire U. S. FM broadcast band. I realize they use commas rather than decimal points for decimal fractions in Europe, but since this console was obviously meant for the U. S. market, it seems strange that the dial would have been marked this way; the radio chassis had German tubes and markings as well.
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