'68 GE AM/FM clock radio

[Reece]

GE used to have a good name and must have been just banking on that when they made that plastic-inside-wood radio. Got twin speakers, big deal: two four-inch speakers sounds like two four-inch speakers. In the same space they could have put a 5 x 7" or 4 x 8" and had better sound with a little more bass but it might have cost fifty cents more and the public probably wouldn't know, anyway, so they got away with it.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Reece

GE used to have a good name and must have been just banking on that when they made that plastic-inside-wood radio. Got twin speakers...In the same space they could have put a 5 x 7" or 4 x 8" and had better sound with a little more bass ...

The output transformer would need to be bigger for more bass, they used rather small ones in these sets. You can substitute a standard AA5 output transformer in these sets, as the operating conditions (B+, wattage, speaker load) are quite similar. The audio wasn't anything to write home about, but the AM section was pretty good, and the FM not bad once I modified the front end.

GE used to have a good name, but they became evil in the mid 80's...

Bet some consumers thought "dual speaker" = stereo...