04-05-2026, 04:30 PM
Joe;
Your set is kind of like the console version of a Sparton tombstone, a guy on C.L has been trying to sell one for almost a year. Anyhow he has a photo from the back and it has the same 8'' Magnavox speaker my little tombstone has, it looks really strange with all of that empty space. The usual format in Canadian sets was to use a 6'' or 8'' in the table version, and a 10'' or 12'' in the console version with the same chassis, I can only speculate that Sparton got a good deal on these 8'' Magnavox speakers and decided to use them with both. The chassis isn't a bad one, it has a tuned RF amplifier stage, with a #42 power output, so it wasn't like it was a bottom rung set, it's pretty similar circuit wise to an RCA 128, with the latter having three bands, and a single ended #41.
Regards
Arran
Your set is kind of like the console version of a Sparton tombstone, a guy on C.L has been trying to sell one for almost a year. Anyhow he has a photo from the back and it has the same 8'' Magnavox speaker my little tombstone has, it looks really strange with all of that empty space. The usual format in Canadian sets was to use a 6'' or 8'' in the table version, and a 10'' or 12'' in the console version with the same chassis, I can only speculate that Sparton got a good deal on these 8'' Magnavox speakers and decided to use them with both. The chassis isn't a bad one, it has a tuned RF amplifier stage, with a #42 power output, so it wasn't like it was a bottom rung set, it's pretty similar circuit wise to an RCA 128, with the latter having three bands, and a single ended #41.
Regards
Arran
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