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Philco 89 how well do they perform
Doug Houston
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06-25-2009, 11:07 PM
I have a friend in Baltimore, who has one of the model 89's with the remote speaker, the receiver being in sort of a "Jewelry box" cabinet. I guess that there aren't many of those around. He's missing the speaker from the cabinet, and I just found one for him. I've assured him that it's a killer performer, so I have his hopes up pretty high.

I know about Ron's upgrade of the mixer-oscillator circuit, and I'll pass this on to him. Knowing him as I do, he'd leap over a canyon to get the set working as original. I do believe however, that he will rearrange the AC power input to the set, and the cabling to the speaker. Whyever on earth, Philco fed the AC into the speaker, then through the floor cable to the set; I'll never know. I have a 16 LX, and they didn't do it that way. If they had done it the other way, I'd change it without a second thought.
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Philco 89 how well do they perform - by radiorich - 06-22-2009, 01:27 AM
Re: Philco 89 how well do they perform - by exray - 06-22-2009, 07:26 AM
Re: Philco 89 how well do they perform - by exray - 06-24-2009, 02:55 AM
Re: Philco 89 how well do they perform - by exray - 06-24-2009, 09:18 AM
Re: Philco 89 how well do they perform - by Doug Houston - 06-25-2009, 11:07 PM



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