Philco 46-1226 question

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Those old consoles usually sounded pretty decent, they beat the little tinny transistor sets of today seven ways to Sunday.

You said it, Sandy. I have six 1950s Zenith radios (table sets, not consoles--no room here for anything that big) that sound great, much better than even many transistor radios of the same era. Even my Zenith R-70 portable (1980 vintage) and my Zenith TransOceanic transistor portable (1958) sound better than today's transistors, even the new little headphone stereos and FM scanning radios you can get for a song at discount stores. (I have a radio with seven-channel weather band and FM that sounds absolutely terrible on FM, but I think that's because of the cheap and very small [about 3" or less, I think] speaker--it sounds much better through headphones.) As I have said here many times before, they don't make them like those old Zeniths (and Philcos, RCAs, just about any major brand of radios) anymore. I'd hold on to those old sets for just that reason; I know my Zeniths are keepers for sure.