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Originally Posted by skodajag
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The BBC were rather scathing in their report. That said, in my teens I repaired an A40C for a friend of my father's (burnt out mains transformer) and had a chance to compare it side by side with a fairly average Philips 653A radiogram. Admittedly the 653A was a design from 20 years later and had a rotatable ferrite aerial. I was very impressed by the complexity of the A40C and its huge energised speaker but both in terms of radio performance and of sound quality the 653A won hands down.
Peter