[462ron]

Richard, I’m thinking capacitor technology in the early days was limited as you find single digit capacitors that were huge compared to today. I am amazed at my Majestic 50 where there are only a couple of 1mfd caps, a 2mfd right off the rectifier and a 3mfd and yet even with a 10” speaker I need to put my ear right up to the speaker to hear the faintest hum with the volume all the way down. But then this set has a filter choke and also uses the field coil for filtering. Even my Philco 37-116 only uses a few 8mfd caps but has 2 filter chokes and a field coil and the amount of hum I hear from its 15” speaker is negligible. Those early sets really depended on the chokes for the bulk of the filtering!

Ron