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Originally Posted by polaraman
I picked up this set today at the Habitat for Humanity Resale store. It is a thrift store 2 miles from my house. This thing should sound pretty good. It has FIVE speakers per side!!!!!!! That is 10 speakers total. I am thinking two are for the TV and the other eight are for the record player and AM/FM radio. I will have to get into it to see what the deal is. I bought it for the whopping sum of $24.00. Too bad it was not a color set.
polaraman
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That's a very nice looking entertainment center (I'd say '50s or sixties, but given the fact the TV only has a VHF tuner [if it has UHF I don't see the other tuner], I'd say it's probably no later than 1963), all right, but I wonder about the size of the screen (I think that's what you were referring to in the title of this thread).
Sixty-one feet? The CRT looks to me as if it is no more than 23" at best. Where did that 61' figure come from?
BTW, I hope you get it working. These older TVs are great, built much better than today's black-plastic cube sets. The cabinet looks like a fine piece of furniture as well.
The sound quality should be excellent too, with five speakers on either side of the cabinet. A lot of those old three-way sets were built with premium sound systems; in the late sixties I had a Zenith 23" b&w console with a 6x9 oval speaker in the base of the cabinet, a tone control, and a 6BN6/6BQ5 audio stage. The sound was great! So good, in fact, that I eventually patched an old FM tuner into the sound channel (across the TV's volume control). The sound, again, was excellent. I'd have kept that set for several years after this modification, but I moved about three years after getting the thing working (it needed all new tubes--it was a trash-day find, and someone had filched every tube from it except the 1J3 HV rectifier and the CRT) and wound up trashing the whole thing,
including its nice wood cabinet. And after all that work I put into it...