11-07-2022, 05:54 PM
(10-07-2022, 08:34 AM)peter scott Wrote: It's 20" energised speaker sounded ok but not when compared with smaller sets from a era twenty years later. I guess the other limitation was that as a stand alone item you were stuck with the frequency range of AM radio transmissions. Yes, you could add a gram deck but perhaps that should have been built in. I did like the complexity of the thing but not its performance.
Peter
The speaker's big, but not that big - just a 12" cone. A radiogram version (A40RG) was available, but formidable in price (£85) and weight (223lb). I've never met one but there's at least one survivor -
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/murphy_a40rga_40_r.html#
Funny, my experience of first hearing the A40C I have was pretty much the opposite of yours: I was taken aback and thought it a revelation that such sound quality was available from a 1937 domestic radio, not high fidelity exactly, but reminiscent of an extremely good jukebox of thirty years later.
Paul
