Best looking vintage radio you have ever seen or owned??
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Recently got this blaupunkt pop 70 set and i think its possibly one of the best looking sets ive ever seen, along with my all white hacker sovereign.
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The classic lines of this iconic radio are a joy to me.
The UP21 "Scarlet Rhapsody" Mike |
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I've always liked the Marconi P17B. Apart from various clones, there's nothing quite like it.
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I'm definitely from the "Form follows function" mindset. Hence I have a fondness for the likes of the Pye P75 and Roberts R606 [shown here sitting side by side: the 606 is my daily-listener, the P75 - which I've fitted with an expanded-metal grille in place of the crumbly speaker-cloth - is kinda-OK for listening to the occasional SW broadcast station].
Personally though, I prefer the true neo-brutalist appearance of 'Industrial/Military' radios - as illustrated by my RACAL RA217/MA323 in the second pic. Even though nearly 50 years old it still gives a good performance receiving HF SSB stations. I'd like to acquire a Bush TR130, if only because it was designed by Tom Karen of Ogle Design, who were also responsible for the design of the Reliant Scimitar [one of which I also have...] |
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A radiogram rather than a radio admittedly but I do like my McMichael 365. It has had a new lid stay fitted since the second photo was taken!
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One of my first (40 odd years ago, but a wee lad) the slatted glass HMV 1121
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Pye M78F for me - I have 2 of them - a black and ivory one and a green and ivory one - second shelf up
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RA217? Interesting, though I prefer the modernist proportions of its flat brother the RA1217. I first saw one in 1972 and it hit me with its wow factor. For broadcast radios, I'm torn between the Beolits and the Hackers.
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I like the RA217/MA323 because it's so stable: I can dial-up a SSB broadcast [like one of the VOLMET ones], switch the radio off for a week, fire it back up again and it's still spot-on frequency.
"Form follows function" again. I've got an Eddystone 840A as a bedside-radio and though it looks the business it's drifty-as-hell. |
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Probably a little eccentric, but I'm smitten by some home made 20's sets. This one's a roundtuit. After that 30's woodies, and yes, military sets - love my HRO.
Tony |
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I also like the marantz 2015 and the sony st-88 combo if we are going into radiograms hifi etc.
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I have a liking for vintage French sets, although fairly basic they are just so over the top as regards design.
This is my Sonolor set I restored last year. |
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I've just finished a few weeks ago restoring this Pilot U-106 and I have to admit its a beautiful set with lovely veneers and inlays but it's rather a huge 10 valver beast! I just love the speaker grill design... Has to be up there with some of the nicest looking sets ive owned
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My favourite sets on aesthetic grounds are pretty disparate. The 1931 Ultra range would figure among them - Panther IV, Tiger III and Blue Fox - as would a Murphy or two, say the A40C and for its utter simplicity the A26. Then the early valved Transoceanics, and the Stromberg-Carlson International: the RV14 Hacker Mayflower, Braun T1000, the over-the-top Panasonics and for a modest transistor portable the Ever Ready Sky Master, with its wonderfully robust little wooden cabinet.
Here are the Stromberg-Carlson with half a Tiger III, and the Panasonic RF-9000 dwarfing a Sky Master,. Paul |
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I like the simple lines of this Ekco U332 I have.
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"Best looking" is a very personal opinion, but my current visual favourites are my Radio rentals "Art deco" radio, and my Decca Debutante transistor.
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For me, it's probably my 'Odeonesque' Defiant MSH938AC from 1938 with motor tuning, AFC, magic eye and television sound.
Is this the largest table radio ever made? Steve |
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That is a beauty Steve! :)
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