Yep, I'm a big fan of 1939-42 Philcos. The only real downside is all the rubber wire with crumbling insulation that you have to replace. I used to also have a 42-690, with the BOL phono, but the cabinet was badly water damaged, and the chassis had a mouse nest in it made from that pink insulation, so I just parted it out. My all-time favorite console is the 42-1016P, with the mystery control, BOL, and old FM band. I've always found it kind of disappointing that Philco didn't continue using the BOL and mystery control after the war.
You can really crank up the 41-295 too, with the push-pull 42s it has. I've recently gotten into weightlifting, and with it heavy metal, (listening to Ray Conniff and Herb Alpert 1960s-easy-listening-type-stuff that I usually listen to doesn't really work as well when you're trying to bench press) It is some kind of height of weirdness, to be listening to 1980s heavy metal, from mp3 files on my 2000 computer, through my homebrew tube AM transmitter (built on a 1959 Magnavox console amp chassis), on my 1941 Philco radio.
12-08-2011, 11:50 PM
Hybrid Mode
