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19th Jul 2021, 9:18 pm | #1 |
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Luxury Vintage Radios
Very opulent site here packed with very high quality radios for sale along with many images of each model along with very thorough descriptions of each.
https://luxuryradios.com/en/ Some very in depth restorations are covered here so certainly not cheap! Neil
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19th Jul 2021, 9:24 pm | #2 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
Sorry nothing there appeals to me its all post war for a start!
Cheers Mike T
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19th Jul 2021, 9:35 pm | #3 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
At what price I wonder?
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19th Jul 2021, 9:53 pm | #4 | |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
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My wife's always threatening to burn my collection I'd let her burn that one Think UK domestic sets not our overseas cousins creations Cheers Mike T
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19th Jul 2021, 10:03 pm | #6 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
Opulent probably describes the prices quite well.
The demonstration rooms are rather odd. Plain walls, hardwood floors, a veritable hall of mirrors. Open baffle speakers too. Very Bauhaus chic in design, probably as bad a starting point as you can get from the point of view of acoustics. Couldn't you find space for just one post-war receiver, Mike... A Tandberg Huldra for example? But if we all had exactly the same interests, just think of the prices and the queues! Edit: Just seen that pre-war one Nick spotted. Dear heavens that thing is hideous! I offer the use of a big propane torch to get it going! David
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19th Jul 2021, 10:45 pm | #7 | |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
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It includes a Huldra 9 (I think its a 9 it's a hybrid) and a B&O Beomaster 900K. Cheers Mike T
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20th Jul 2021, 5:33 am | #8 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
Yeah... those are seriously posh!
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20th Jul 2021, 7:58 am | #9 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
There's lots of twaddle on the site (e.g. that you should never site a stereo receiver between the speakers), but the photos are lovely and it's nice to see somebody making a go of marketing old radios to people with lots of spare cash. Surely this might help increase their desirability and persuade a few people to treasure sets that might be otherwise discarded.
I still remember with horror a holiday to Germany with my parents in the mid 1980s, and coming across the "Sperrmüll" waste collection, where everyone put out their big items for collection by a crusher. There were piles of radios like this, all destroyed in a few minutes. There seems to be less saving/collecting (hoarding?) on the Continent than over here! Pic from a quick Google: Last edited by Nickthedentist; 20th Jul 2021 at 8:11 am. |
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20th Jul 2021, 10:52 am | #11 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
Blimey, that Multigamma is seriously ugly, I wish I hadn't seen it now, I didn't know it was on there! Sorry everyone, I should have vetted the site first before unleashing it on you lot . I'm going to set to work on a DAC90a to recover .
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20th Jul 2021, 2:38 pm | #12 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
Always nice to see sets restored whether its commercial or enthusiast driven.
Lovely site .
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21st Jul 2021, 4:29 pm | #13 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
How about these? https://www.classicradioshop.info/vi...adios-for-sale Jerry
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21st Jul 2021, 8:03 pm | #14 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
About the only one of them I would give house-room to is the Braun RCS9 - which at least _looks_ to me like a proper receiver should, with its nice aluminium case.
[Alas according to Radiomuseum - https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/braun_...et_rcs9_2.html - it has the horribly unreliable ELL80 dual-pentodes as its push-pull output-stages] |
23rd Jul 2021, 11:58 am | #15 |
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Re: Luxury Vintage Radios
I had a Philips radiogram with similar piano keys etc and thought it was quite classy because it had a knob for rotating the ferrite aerial. The set performed well and in fact better than the one that actually springs to mind as "luxury". That was a Murphy A40C that I repaired for a friend of my father. Double conversion on SW and push-pull output driving a huge energised 12" speaker.
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