Classic Hifi Care

Barn find

We need some sort of bat signal and a street team with a truck when these pop up

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Nice unit. CT is Bozak country...

Looks like mine and yours, Brett. Can you read the model number?

Bill

William wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:12 pm Looks like mine and yours, Brett. Can you read the model number?

Bill

1960 SK32

Thanks, Brett, now I can look it up and see what's under the hood.

Bill

William wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:30 am Thanks, Brett, now I can look it up and see what's under the hood.

Bill

It's push pull 6BQ5 with 4 tubes and 3 audio transformers + a 12AX7 pre amp stage. I added the drawings to the downloads section

SK32 - 35

Thanks, Brett. If it's 3 channel as Radiomuseum states, it must be PP for the woofer and singe ended for the LH and RH speakers. Interesting !

Bill

This is among 1960's first 3-channel models, like the bow-front SK-28, gull-wing SK-29, SK-30 etc.
This model used the similar integrated tuner-preamplifier in the SK17 (2-ch stereo) BUT most of the tube Motorola console models used a separate preamp chassis so that a tuner could be an option. Many folks buying stereo record players did not want a monophonic tuner, so it was made a separate component, added later when stereo broadcasts were starting.

The total power rating was 40 watts, the center channel having over half of that because the audible spectrum is split between L + R + center amps, bi-amped so-to-speak.

The price is a bargain and that priceless setting reminds me of why I live round these parts; you never know what will pop up for sale and the journey to get it makes it even more fun. If you're lucky, a family story may be told about it.