[Doug Houston]

Back to the Maggie R-S issues. In the last week, there have been two Magnavox Regency-Symphony sets in CL for sale.

One was reasonably correct, but the other was so butchered up, it was a very sad joke. The control panel and receiver chassis appears to have been from a Maggie Windsor. Too large for the smaller R-S cabinet. rear view showed the correct amplifier for the R-S chassIs, with the 4-6V6 power amps. The phono compartment was removed from the cabinet, and a few smaller speakers replaced the phono compartment. there was a big hole where the speaker had been (whatever it actually was), though the ad told that it had been a 15 inch.....not correct for a Regency Symphony, anyway. The R-S and Belvedere models used 2-12 inch speakers. Probably the correct R-S chassis had been replaced because the chassis in the cabinet had the FM band on it, and the earlier R-S sets didn't have the FM on the main receiver chassis. Later R-S sets did have a later receiver chassis with the FM band in them, and were single chassis sets. this thing had been the product of some self-styled "engineer", who made pure junk out of it.