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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
Let me look at my warehouse-of-horrors. I scrapped a few Magnavox combos for the amps. The radio chassis is not impressive at all. I never noticed, it didn't have dial lights. One radio chassis even had a tuning meter.  |
Well My magnavox Console was one of the BOTL or MOTL models as the tuner it uses is the chassis 7907-00 Tuner, and the Amp is the 8601-20
So the Amp I know is a good amp but the tuner was pretty much bottom of the line for them as it didn't have dial lights or tuning meters or stereo multiplex or even Stereo Simulcast for FM just a plain ol' FM Mono tuner with provisions for a Stereo Multiplexer to be attached at a later time if one so chose to buy the unit.
Anyways the tuner is pretty decent at picking up stations with a 2 foot length of wire attached to the antenna terminals on the back of the unit, but without the wire its not very good at picking up stations except very local stations, although it doesn't help any that the original built-in FM antenna is non-existant anymore (there would of been a dipole antenna attached to the back of the cabinet and attached to the antenna terminals but that has long since been lost but the staples from it still remain in the case yet.)
Anyways I appreciate you having a look in your junk pile to see if you have any spare Magnavox Micromatic Record players laying around.
