'68 Silvertone AM/FM table radio

[Reece]

Don't bother building a sweet sixteen! Back around 1961 or so I helped my bro-in-law build one. It took 16 - 5" speakers wired up series/parallel in some circuit to come up with 8 or 16 ohms, I forget which. It was quite disappointing. It sounded like an enormous 5" speaker! Lots of volume but no more bass than a 5" speaker. The theory was all those cones would move a lot of air and make bass, but all it did was make volume. The speaker has to have the frequency response to do it. You could stack up sixteen AA5 radios with 4 or 5 inch speakers and see what I mean.