08-31-2025, 08:20 AM
Paul, nice radio, nice finish on the cabinet. The Truetone that you had in the Flickr file was even nicer. Love table radios with 8" speakers.
For a while, about maybe 15-20 years ago, Eton was marketing radios with the Grundig name. I have to assume that they had licensed the name from Grundig. I have the G8Traveler II. the manual states "Designed in Palo Alto, California, UAS, made in China (where else?), almost like Apple products which states "Designed in Cupertino, CA, made in China".
Pic of the Grundig G8
The Eton branded replacement:
This is a rather nice radio. With earphones, FM is in stereo. Nice world clock function, and of course, no World Band radio would be complete without a map of the world.
There is a thread on a Grundig by member with current Grundig website and products, and a Wikipedia page. Grundig may have TV and audio, but since their 2003 bankruptcy), they were taken over by a Turkish appliance conglomerate. Grundig's current products are mostly "White Goods" (Kitchen and laundry appliances.
I recently went looking in stores for an AM-FM portable with basic knob style operation such as AM-FM switch, volume / on-off knob and tuning knob with slide rule scale from a known brand such as Sony, Panasonic, Aiwa, or even RCA, GE, Phillips, etc. for an older friend's birthday. These don't exist. The only thing I can find is "Retro" stye radios with brands like Studebaker, Crosley, etc., of high price and questionable quality. Everything else is either complex (like the Kaito KA29, a very feature-full radio at a cheap price, receiving all bands and FM stereo, can record and play MP3s but extremely difficult to use.) or relatively inexpensive but poor performing. Seems that the major age demographics listen to music only via Bluetooth products connected to their phones. Even iPods are things of the past.
For a while, about maybe 15-20 years ago, Eton was marketing radios with the Grundig name. I have to assume that they had licensed the name from Grundig. I have the G8Traveler II. the manual states "Designed in Palo Alto, California, UAS, made in China (where else?), almost like Apple products which states "Designed in Cupertino, CA, made in China".
Pic of the Grundig G8
The Eton branded replacement:
This is a rather nice radio. With earphones, FM is in stereo. Nice world clock function, and of course, no World Band radio would be complete without a map of the world.
There is a thread on a Grundig by member with current Grundig website and products, and a Wikipedia page. Grundig may have TV and audio, but since their 2003 bankruptcy), they were taken over by a Turkish appliance conglomerate. Grundig's current products are mostly "White Goods" (Kitchen and laundry appliances.
I recently went looking in stores for an AM-FM portable with basic knob style operation such as AM-FM switch, volume / on-off knob and tuning knob with slide rule scale from a known brand such as Sony, Panasonic, Aiwa, or even RCA, GE, Phillips, etc. for an older friend's birthday. These don't exist. The only thing I can find is "Retro" stye radios with brands like Studebaker, Crosley, etc., of high price and questionable quality. Everything else is either complex (like the Kaito KA29, a very feature-full radio at a cheap price, receiving all bands and FM stereo, can record and play MP3s but extremely difficult to use.) or relatively inexpensive but poor performing. Seems that the major age demographics listen to music only via Bluetooth products connected to their phones. Even iPods are things of the past.
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Best Regards,
MrFixr55




