Dating Someone 78 years older than you....(For Mr. R2R...)
 

All,
So I had a conversation with Reel2Reel a couple weeks back regarding MP3's; ad nauseum....So I figured why not ? Blasphemy - perhaps. I can say this though...The craftsman whom first assembled this would be tossing in his grave hath he heard White Zombie chugging away :banana:
Don't worry though, Glenn Miller is up next :thmbsp:
I still haven't quite figured out why I have such low output from my phono-section...Im sure it is the improper cartridge output (still !), so I am thinking I will add an additional single 12ax7 phono amp eventually.

PS - Ya, the dell is a gold digger :yes:

I can think of no higher honor to a craftsman to know that his equipment is appreciated enough to be integrated into modern life. I think it is cool!

Now he might not have an appreciation for White Zombie.....

I have an Australian made Stromberg Carlson radio-gram minus the turntable & I plan to do the unthinkable & insert a cheap DVD MP3 player where the turntable once was.

Sounds interesting. Oddly enough, mine had the TT removed..Thankfully it was replaced with a Collaro Conquest :D

This is the radio in question, It's a 1951 Australian made Stromberg-Carlson 71A31 radio gram.

It has 7 tubes & the radio is a 3 band-er Standard Broadcast 500-1600 Kc/s, SW 6-18 Mc/s & a second SW band covering 9.5-12 Mc/s (Band spread)

The output stage tubes were upgraded from 2 x 6M5's to 2 x 6BQ5's (Sovtec's) as 6M5's are hard to come by & 6BQ5's are still made albeit in the former USSR.

I use this radio for listening to OTR shows (Downloaded off the net) via the installed El cheapo DVD, MP3, CD player.

The chassis was re-capped & had all electros replaced & and any suspect high value resistors were also replaced & a few silver mica caps were also replaced for faults that were found after the original repairs were carried out.

The radio was then aligned to spec with the IF's stagger tuned to plus & minus 3Kc off the center freq of 455Kc to achieve a wider bandwidth then peaked at 455kc for a better frequency response on AM broadcast stations.