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What is it about this radio?
Besides that great tube sound, why does everyone rave about this model? From what I've noticed, when you get past the bakelite cabinet era, the build quality goes down noticeably. A lot of those nice tube radios from the Sixties were mounted on pc boards and housed in styrene cabinets and are so heat damaged they are often unrestorable. I have a mid-Fifties Zenith am/fm radio in a bakelite cabinet with full steel chassis. It is the one you see all the time with the grille cloth front, big round dial which is part of the cabinet and external dial pointer. Now that's a good amfm tube radio.
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