I have two Zeniths, MJ1035 and C845, which get a lot of use around here. The MJ1035 is the one I listen to the most. Doesn't sound half bad for a radio that was new 43 years ago, even though the volume control is very intermittent. I listen to two oldies radio programs on this radio most every week, Gary Bryan's "Inside the Sixties" (Saturday nights, 7 p.m.-midnight Eastern time) and John Landecker's "Into the Seventies" (Sunday nights, 7 p.m. midnight EST as well) on Cleveland oldies station WMJI-FM, 105.7 (I also have the radio on this station most of the time during the week, though I do listen to another oldies station some 50 miles east of here on occasion also). Somehow, I think the old '60s-'70s rock and roll music sounds better when listened to on a vintage radio; probably because the older sets have better sound quality (larger speakers, better amplifiers, tone compensation; the better Zeniths all had true full-range tone controls) than many or even most of today's cheap portables. My MJ1035 looks exactly like the picture of the same radio in my avatar; probably the same model (MJ1035-1).
The Truetone radio mentioned earlier in this thread looks like it was originally from the Detroit area, judging by the stations the presets are set to (WJR, CKLW, WXYZ, WWJ), even though the author of that post (Adam) lives in Los Angeles. Adam, are you originally from Detroit or did you win your Truetone radio in an eBay auction, with the seller being in Detroit? Just curious. Also, do you get a lot of hash in the Truetone radio from the CPU in your computer? If the radio is on the same desk as the computer I would think you'd have so much hash it would be almost impossible to hear much of anything, unless the radio is very well shielded. I have my stereo system right next to my computer; when I am online the CPU puts out so much hash it completely wipes out everything but very strong 50kW AM stations; the same with FM. Oh well. I listen to most of my music when online on the Internet (much of the time from Pandora Internet radio,
http://www.pandora.com) and through my Winamp media player anyway, so the CPU hash problem isn't an issue anymore.