[Jeffhs]

I know what you mean as to finding out too late that a radio you won on ebay doesn't have FM or some other feature you were hoping it would have. I also thought a Zenith TransOceanic Royal 1000-1 radio I bid for (and eventually won) on ebay earlier this year had FM. Then I did some research on the solid-state T-Os and found that the first SS designs of these sets (1000, 1000-1, the latter with a jack for an AC adapter) were AM/SW only, no FM. The first of the SS TOs to have FM were the Royal 3000 series; all TOs to follow had this band, plus several SW bands.

However, as to the radio you are either bidding on or may have already won, if it has a phono input jack you are in luck as radios with these inputs usually have very good audio systems. (The older RCA TVs with phono inputs were the same way, as their audio systems and in many cases speakers were hi-fi material as well.) The Zenith C-845 comes to mind as I write this; it has a phono input and a two-way speaker system, so the fidelity of sound from these must be very good to excellent. I own a Zenith K-731 table model with a two-way speaker system, one speaker being an electrostatic tweeter driven directly from the plate of the 35C5 output tube, the other being a 5x7 oval. This radio sounds so good I am amazed as all get out that it doesn't have a phono jack, but the C845 does. This amazes me, since the C845 has two speakers, both of which are standard cone types, probably driven from an output transformer with a tapped secondary winding.