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Most of the big makers (RCA, Zenith, GE etc) got their start by building quality radios. As a result, most of the name brand stuff you find will be pretty good. Even a lot of the 'budget sets' seem to be built up pretty nicely. That being said, I am not a fan of Philco's output. My biggest complaint has to be how they constantly changed their designs during the production of the radio. This can be extremely frustrating when you have a radio where even the tube lineup has been changed. I don't know if this was the result of their putting inadequate designs out on the market and making running changes to them as issues cropped up, or if they just were using whatever components that they could get for cheap.
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