The quest for the best

[Pete Schumacher]

This was fascinating, to this major nerd anyway. Imagine buying a radio receiver with 30 tubes, an 18" woofer, dual 12" woofers for the low-low price of $1500 in 1936?

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/a...rucNcI3hi5MoCg

[djg]

The 500kw WLW transmitter.

JIM HAWKINS' WLW Transmitter Page

[mattk]

Evidently big speakers attracted the babes back then. Crosley was an interesting guy.

[skatz]

No mention of the SQ at all. I wonder if you could heat your home with it?

[Geoff Millar]

Very impressive, especially for the time, I wonder if there are any left?

The 30s were a great decade for innovation: radar, television, tape recording and the helicopter, to name but a few inventions, all came from that period.

Thanks for the link!

Geoff

[buggers]

I reckon back then SQ was not a thing

[kanemack]

All all that surface area, and no bass modulation...probably loud AF lol. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

[dst]

You were the neighborhood chick magnet if you had that in your parlor! I read that if a cell phone were constructed with tubes it would be the size of the Washington Monument.

[Pete Schumacher]

No mention of the SQ at all. I wonder if you could heat your home with it?

They had separate amps for mids/highs and lows. It was an ACTIVE multi-way speaker system!!! SQ was definitely a consideration.

[skatz]

At Pete's suggestion, I am adding this photo of a speaker system built by Harry Olson (in the 50's I presume) as seen at InDIYana 2018, another quest for the best. It was a 15" coaxial in a unique enclosure, as you can see.

Steve

[buggers]

Can you check the path of that shortcut?

[fpitas]

You were the neighborhood chick magnet if you had that in your parlor! I read that if a cell phone were constructed with tubes it would be the size of the Washington Monument.

And work about 5 minutes before another tube needed replacing lol.

[Pete Schumacher]

And work about 5 minutes before another tube needed replacing lol.

My dad bought a Zenith table radio in the late 1950s. It is stuck on KMOX (1120 AM) as the tuner mechanism crumbled over time. But turn it on and wait a few minutes, and you can still listen to Cardinal Baseball as they chase another pennant.

Still has the original tubes.

[fpitas]

My dad bought a Zenith table radio in the late 1950s. It is stuck on KMOX (1120 AM) as the tuner mechanism crumbled over time. But turn it on and wait a few minutes, and you can still listen to Cardinal Baseball as they chase another pennant.

Still has the original tubes.

Some last a while, some don't. But one of the biggest headaches with early tube computers was the constant tube replacement.

[skatz]

Can you check the path of that shortcut?

Obviously that didn't work. I got a message that said the file was corrupted, so I 'll have to try another way of getting it here. I am at work, and that constricts me some. Maybe this evening if I get to it.