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Not at all a bad radio. I too have one--that also was a garbage find for someone else--and I got it from them for a couple of bucks, maybe 10 years ago.
I like the design. Notice that big sink on the amp chip. Nice big speaker too--and for a table radio--pretty big power tranny.
Still though...it will NOT get CLOSE to my Sylvaina table radios, model RM-90 and RM-3000, that I have spoken about in the past.(There is also an FM-only version, which I also have).They have sealed--suspension speakers, discrete ckty, with P-P TO-3 germanium amps, and at LEAST 5 true watts of power. Also--switchable AFC, bass and treble controls, and several IF and RF stages. I think 14 or so transistors total, for an AM-FM table radio, a metal chassis, and a considerably larger tranny. But one must remember they are a product of the late 60's,( 67 or 68)--and the Sony is probably 10 years newer--and shows it, by the build of it. An old advertisement of the smaller one, RM-90, described it as a "true HI-FI radio", that had better sound that one twice it's size"--at about $100, in 1968
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