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American radios had largely abandoned shortwave, that's one reason people bought the German sets, they were generally a higher end product. To get shortwave on an American radio, you had to get a multi band set or zenith transoceanic, and those generally did not have FM or hi fi sound. Most American radios of the period were carefully engineered to be cheap. A Few American table radios of the 5os could match the sound of the German sets, but not many and they probably cost as much, but lacked shortwave. Currency exchange rates and Germany's need to export to get American dollars probably played into it also.
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