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Originally Posted by ggregg
That's certainly possible but I've had a couple of these and both had issues with the speaker. I just swapped it out with another 4" from the parts box and they played fine. I'm thinking they just used a really cheap speaker on these which is odd because the larger Crosley Coloradios, of this same vintage, had very decent speakers in them.
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yeah, I noticed that the speaker inside this radio is what appears to be an el-cheapo 4" electromagnetic speaker with 3 1/4" on center screw holes and untreated paper cone. anyways the speaker just seems to be able to be easily replaced with a modern electromagnetic speaker (no special plugs or output transformers attached to the speaker) I have an old 1970s vintage stereo portable 8-Track player that had built-in speakers and the speakers in the cabinet seem to be the same size and wattage/impedance rating as the original speaker in this radio so I think I might steal a speaker out of the 8-Track player (its a junk unit anyhow as it had a bad volume control which was one of those slider type controls which are NLA) and stick that speaker in the radio and see what happens.