[GeoffK]

Re: The Grundig Yacht Boy 210 having excessive loudness, presumably to make it sound more impressive to make its thinner plastic cabinet seem as if it is more like a solid wooden one, the loudness components can easily be removed, either lifting one end of the marked components or taking them out all together. It would be useful if they could be switched in and out but not very practical to fit a switch. Disabling the loudness circuit makes the radio sound more natural, the tone control gives more than adequate range to suit listening tastes, either pushed in for bass or pulled out to put the coupling capacitor in circuit to reduce the bass. The circuit diagram shows the components to lift in red, though the print values aren't very clear. Experiments could be made to either remove the top or bottom part of the loudness control from the volume control, or to substitute different values of resistors and capacitors in the loudness circuit.