[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by anden

Your Panasonic phono/radio is transistorized and as you said, is late 60's to maybe 1972. I recently saw one on ebay but it had louvers all the way across the front and had a great mod look wanted to bid, but it went too high for me.....about $70. Panasonic made some nicely constructed audio in this era.

Another interesting unit is the General Electric radio from about 1965 which had swing out speakers and the current to power these speakers went through the hinges !

Interesting. That's the first time I've ever heard of a vintage radio that was designed such that the speakers connected to it via the hinges. The only downside to this design, that I can imagine anyway, is that the speakers would be captivated to the radio cabinet, thereby limiting stereo separation to roughly the width of the cabinet plus the speakers. Did that receiver have any provisions for external speakers or to connect extension cables to its own speakers?