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Thanks for your comment. I agree with the comparison to Kenwood - I've recently been working on a Trio (aka Kenwood) R2000 - an earlier generation than the Grundig, but of similar quality.

That's a great story Michael! And it confirms all my suspicions about this model. It's some years since I restored this one, but I still bear the mental scars...

Thanks for your comment. Yes it is a great radio - I wish I'd kept it.

@@vintagear1269 I had one of this in the past, very fine receiver 😊

Hi - thanks for your interest - sadly, I no longer own this radio (I wish I'd kept it)

Hi - thanks for your interest - sadly, this radio is now sold

Hi - thanks for your comments. It's a great radio - I no longer own this one and I regret selling it. Yes, you will almost certainly need an external antenna for shortwave reception. These come in many forms and there is much advice online about the best types - for example: long-wire, or various forms of dipole or magnetic loop. Much depends on reception conditions, topology etc at your location. A low-cost experiment that you could try is just to connect a long wire (say, 10-20m) and a ground wire. Unless there is a problem with the radio, you should notice an immediate improvement in SW reception. Please also bear in mind that shortwave reception is always better after dark, due to atmospheric conditions. Best wishes and good luck!

Thanks for your interest. They are great radios, with the usual quirky Philips design.

Thanks for commenting. No they don't! Today you could probably carry out all the functions of this machine on your mobile phone. Such is 'progress'. From a servicing point of view, I found that the 96 was one of the more difficult Telefunkens to work on - lots of fiddly switch links to unhitch, to get to other components.

Thanks for commenting - glad you like it

Thanks for commenting. Hope your CRF-160 came with the power lead!

@@vintagear1269 rất là ok. Cảm ơn bạn

Hi there - schematics available here: www.radiomuseum.org/r/telefunken_magnetophon_96.html . I no longer have this recorder, so apologies that I can't provide video. The 96 is not the easiest of Magnetophon's to work on, I seem to remember. Good luck!

You have an eye for quality!

Thanks for commenting. You're right! - Elvis or Bill Haley would have been a better choice, but the TH-cam copyright police tend to say no to those.

Hi - thanks for commenting. It's a great amplifier, but not intended for home hi-fi: - it has a cooling fan, which generates some noise.

Hi - thanks for subscribing to my channel, and for your comments. It's a great radio, but sadly this one is not for sale! Online auctions or Sony forums are the places I'd look for one.

Thanks for commenting - yes the MB1000 performs well. Good to hear them still sounding good after 50 years.

Many thanks for commenting/subscribing. The B5X range was well made and technically interesting.

Hi - thanks for your interest. Unfortunately the Philips and the Minerva are now sold.

Hi - thanks for your interest. Unfortunately the Minerva and the Philips Bi-Ampli are now sold

Thank you for your interest. Yes it is a super radio.

Thank you so much for your comment, and for subscribing to my little channel.

Hello! Thank you very much for your interest. My location is the beautiful north of the UK. The radio is not currently for sale, but my wife tells me I have too many radios! So I may decide to sell this one - and others - later in the year (to make room for buying more...)

Hello! Thank you very much for your interest. My location is the beautiful north of the UK. The radio is not currently for sale, but my wife tells me I have too many radios! So I may decide to sell this one - and others - later in the year (to make room for buying more...)

Hello! Thank you very much for your interest. My location is the beautiful north of the UK. The radio is not currently for sale, but my wife tells me I have too many radios! So I may decide to sell this one - and others - later in the year (to make room for buying more...)

Hi - you'll need an amplifier with a phono input stage (or an amplifier with a separate phono pre-amp).

Thanks for commenting. I agree - they are more than the sum of their parts.

Many thanks for commenting. Yes they are great radios - still sounding good after 50 years.

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Hi -thanks for commenting... I suspect you may be inviting a flood of responses to the contrary from fans of Lenco, Thorens, Garrard, Linn, EMT, Technics etc!

Having had a Dual for many years and since changing for the Lenco I feel the opposite the idler drive keeps superb speed

@@ethanoreilly2002 One Swallowf flying, doesn't make it Spring.

Bravo musica vera. Suono vero e non quella schifezza per audiofili Complimenti da Roma.

I think this 1210 is my last turntable too.

You're right! I think I could only find a very degraded tape for that demo. Thanks for commenting.

There's a microswitch operated by the tonearm that cuts the power at the end of a disc. The switch contacts may need cleaning and/or adjusting. Another common reason for non-stop running is a 'leaky' switch capacitor. Thanks for commenting.

@@vintagear1269 thank you for getting back to me. Great video. I looked at the switch and it seems like the plastic arm that should be releasing the switch isn't moving enough out of the way, also my tone are seems messed up. It won't start correctly and the arm seems to be bound up. Nothing looks broken, I can identify a post that the mechanism moves around but I'm not sure how make it correct.

@@jimlatorra2693 Hello Jim - it sounds like your D20 needs some serious TLC! To work efficiently, the arm and auto-return mechanisms need to be ultra clean and correctly lubricated. The original lubricants harden with age and that may be what's causing the problems. Time to find a technician, I'd suggest. But obviously servicing is expensive and a lower cost option may simply be to find a replacement turntable. Good luck!

Thanks for commenting - Yes, the music should really be 'Peter and the Wolf', or 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'. You must have gone to the same school as me - we had the same radio, the same baffle speakers and the same faulty boiler. I can remember the equipment but not the lessons. (There's a matching C&S schools' record player elsewhere on my channel. They are so well built and a joy to restore).

Hi - Yes, the SRP31C dates from the late 1950s/early 1960s. If I recall, the date codes on the (original) tubes of this example were 1959.

@@vintagear1269 thanks for the feedback

Hi - the motor/tape transport are working, but sadly the cassette electronics are not! Haven't investigated this.

There's a quality control date stamp inside the cabinet. I suppose serial numbers may also be used to date these machines, for anyone with the knowledge.

@@vintagear1269 Thanks. I just found this model in a recycling locker, yesterday. Haven't gotten into it yet. Beautifully built machine. JFK used a Model 5 in the early '60s.

@@michaelscottcutler3627 Yes they are beautiful machines - good luck with yours. I think the main restoration items areas to watch for are the power supply (selenium rectifier and electrolytics) and tape transport (belt/clutches/brake/speed change).

Thanks for commenting. They're satisfying to restore, because you know they'll sound great when you've finished. You're right about MW/LW being empty. And SW - I miss (sort of) those endless farming reports and folk music etc from quirky stations in eastern Europe, middle East, China, Africa etc (after dark, on a long wire connected to a curtain pole). Happy days...

@@vintagear1269 I had a super collection of QSL cards (at least I think that’s what they were called). One was from the Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran; I’d probably end up on some government list if I got mail like that these days! My furthest was from Radio Station HCJB which was in Ecuador I think. Yep happy times indeed