Console Radio

[Cardigan]

Also, a Bush SUG3. This set uses a similar chassis as the DAC90 with the exceptions of having a short waveband and a mains transformer to supply the series valve heaters.

The SUG3 is the console version of the Bush AC1.

[Gryphon]

Coming a bit late to this, for which, apologies.

If you can find one, the Murphy A28C is very nice.

It takes a bit of care to get the AFC working correctly, but it's very effective when properly set-up.

10" loudspeaker, so the sound quality is fairly decent (for AM, clearly).

[Synchrodyne]

I imagine that that this Dynatron Merlin console receiver would fall into the aspirational class:

   

At the time of its release, it probably had the Dynatron T69 tuner/control unit, but later editions likely had the T99.

Here is another highly specified model from the same era, the Ace 600:

   

Both of the above are probably as scarce as hen’s teeth, though.

Of those from the mass producers, and basis only its circuit and description, the AM-only Murphy A188C strikes me as having been a well thought-out model.  The RF section was three-gang with a bandpass input.  And the IF was variable selectivity, with I’d guess 10 kHz audio bandwidth or close thereto in the wide position.  The output was push-pull, with a 9 kHz notch filter in the feedback loop.

As already noted, the later FM-AM A272C, which appears to have been the successor to the A188C, was simpler, using a mostly standard circuit with single-ended output.  I say mostly standard, because in a predominantly noval valve circuit, Murphy was still using the “brute force” Mazda 6C9 Rimlock frequency changer, as well as an octal output valve and a Rimlock rectifier.

The A272C was a contemporary of the FM-only Ekco C273, which also used a standard single-ended circuit, but which I think had a more complex speaker system.

I suspect that there were not too many other console receivers available by 1956; evidently they were a dying breed.  


Cheers,

Steve