They Found A Broken Stereo Console On Trash Day...Let's Fix It!!

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  @tomweickmann6414 · 1 year ago

  Him: &quot;Not too many scratches on it.&quot;<br><br>Cat: &nbsp;&quot;I can fix that.&quot;

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• EA

  @Earcandy73 · 3 years ago

  I have worked on so many Magnavox consoles. This one looks like a 1967 model. Magnavox did indeed place resistors on their aux inputs. Another trick up their sleeve sometimes was to place a blend resistor to reduce stereo separation of the phono input. This masked the noise on some records. I always removed that blend resistor to open up the soundstage.

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• TH

  @thomashubbard1673 · 3 years ago

  Wow, even the stereo indicator and dial lamps were still working! &nbsp;Always good to have a kitty supervisor.

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• BA

  @balok1546 · 3 years ago

  A coworker picked up a console stereo / TV on his way to work. It sat in his truck all day. That night, he took it into his basement lab and fired it up. Like yours, the radio worked. When he fired up the TV, he heard a muffled snap, and saw a slight wisp of smoke floating up from the back. No problem, we&apos;re all EEs here, he&apos;ll fix it. When he removed the back, dozens of cockroaches poured out of the Trojan Horse, scattering all throughout his house. Well, several months and hundreds of dollars in exterminator fees later, he had a mostly clean house, a working console, and respect for the lone cockroach that sacrificed itself by throwing itself across the power supply, so that it&apos;s fellow bugs could make their escape from the TV prison.

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• KE

  @kentsnyder8664 · 3 years ago

  the fact that it has the manual with it too!?!? Amazing.

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• GR

  @grandpaseed · 3 years ago

  for those of you not old enough to know some of those old consoles have a great sound and can really rock the house for cheep

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• BI

  @bigd835 · 3 years ago

  One mans trash is another mans treasure. &nbsp; Super cool and nice job.

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• MP

  @mpwiedemann · 3 years ago

  I was able to get a huge 6 1/2 foot long RCA console free about 7 years ago. It&apos;s an absolute beast in the tone department and has the tape-in/aux-in port. I&apos;ve got a bluetooth receiver hooked up to it. Deep, rich sound and the thing must weigh over 300 pounds. It&apos;s the one piece of furniture I&apos;d muscle out the door if my house ever caught fire. I love that thing.

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• LO

  @loktaiextatus · 3 years ago

  I have THIS EXACT unit. my mother (rest in peace) bought it brand new when she was young, one of the first &quot;new&quot; things she bought herself. &nbsp;The AUX is amazingly useful... been enjoying that for many years.

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• DO

  @doorguru168888 · 3 years ago

  Around 1967, my parents had a Magnavox much like this, but it also had a color TV in the center. One of the first color TV&apos;s on the block. &nbsp;If you weren&apos;t careful and left a vinyl record on top of the sliding cover, it would land on top of the CRT. I found my sisters missing Lesley Gore album in there. It was melted/warped from the heat. All the neighborhood kids came over to watch Batman in color. 🤗

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• RW

  @rwj777 · 3 years ago

  My grandparents had one of these in their house. The outside cabinet was slightly fancier , but it was a Magnavox just like the one that you have here. The tuner and record player was exactly the same as this one. I have fond memories of my little cousin and I hooking up my first portable CD player to this system through the aux jack. When we were ever home alone, we would have this system turned up all the way to the max, playing hip hop music through it and must say that it got pretty loud with very punchy bass, literally shaking the pictures on the wall...lol. The neighbors weren&apos;t very happy about that tho 🤣🤣🤣 &nbsp;Man those were the good ole days of my childhood. 🤗

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• KM

  @kmath50 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I remember when these were very popular. The fact that the cabinet is still in good shape is a plus, along with having the AUX inputs. <br>When I was a teen, component systems started to take over, and console units lost their popularity. Thank you for saving this nice piece of history from the landfill.

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