Early stereo FM - thoughts?

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A great compact high fidelity set-up would have been the KLH model eight paired with the KLH model thirteen stereophonic adapter. Sort of an odd couple though - the Model Eight was tubed, the Model Thirteen was transistorized. Each would have had it's own acoustic suspension speaker. Only about 1,500 model Thirteens were produced so they are hard to find.

What KLH pulled of with the Eight is nothing short of amazing - smaller then a shoe box and having only 7 tubes - it's a fully transormered set, RF amplifier, 3 IF stages, push-pull audio output with 14 db negative feedback. Harmonic distortion is less then .3 %. In the February, 1961 issue of High Fidelity Magazine, they remarked, "In A-B tests against an elaborate system of known high quality, we found the differences to be slight, on voices the KLH occasionally sounded better."

A sleeper in early FM stereo radios is the Motorola B100W of 1962 - 9 tubes, point to point to point hand wired, twin 6 inch detachable speakers for stereo seperation. I've sen these sell for $5.00 on ebay! They have very nice sound quality.