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Surprisingly, no mention of the awesome and very musical 4343. I can't see (hear?) how a properly restored set could ever disappoint.

He just wants to test it, so short RCA cables is all that is needed. KISS

Here is a scheme. You might have to twiddle around with some values to make it work with a 250K pot, but that should be relatively easy. Other than the buildout resistor from the previous stage, there are just 2 resistors, 1 cap. Gang 2 of the switch is for the second channel.

But, If your equipment uses a detachable IEC cord, modifying a shielded version of the cord to disconnect its shield at the plug end leaves your equipment UL unscathed. But as mentioned earlier, would it improve your equipment / system's sound? Maybe. Maybe not.

What printing is on the top cover plate? Yes, I would go wrinkle. Haven't seen much sold in rattle cans the past three or four decades, the Methylene Chlorine restriction bit, you know. Omg, if the chemically squeamish types only realized the peril of a lifetime exposure to Dihydrogen Monoxide !

In this configuration, the shield would provide a level of rejection of noise otherwise induced into the unshielded cord itself over its length. To use it you would connect the shield only to the chassis of the component it supplies power to, and not at the plug end. This scheme allows the...

You must have either two 4410L's, or two 4410R's. I've had the 4410's and 4412's. The 4410's gave superb imaging, but I could never get the 4412's to image well. I think the 10's were also less critical as to their placement in a room. Great for near field and reasonable distance mid field.

The ports in 4310's had an angled bend that made its inside opening sit close to the woofer's cone, near the outer frame. Not sure if the 4311's had those, but I'm pretty sure at least the earliest production L-100's did. Anyone know what the advantage of this feature may have been?

Are you sure it was designed for the Montreal Olympics? More like the Mission Impossible teams...

A guy at work had a preamp made by ESS. They were around $300 back then in 1976. ( 2023 = $1,577.35). He let me borrow it for exactly one weekend which was as long as I could tolerate it. It was the most one dimensional, dead and dull sounding component imaginable. Cheesy plastic faceplate with...

You shouldn't have to rely on early 20th century receptacles and plugs to bring antenna and ground connductors to the room. The single gang sized plates with two binding posts intended for home theater use would work. Or for a puzzling retro effect, do you remember the plates and plugs made for...

I've never seen the plug, but to use one of the "Radio" outlets I pulled the blades out of an unused 20 amp plug and pushed them in. The house was 1930's vintage, and the radio outlets were put in during its construction. They were the type on the left. The outlets were a necessity for AM...

I lived in a 1932 built house in New Jersey as a kid. The first time I saw the place I was just six, and marveled at the sight of a truck feeding coal through a chute into the basement. The boiler was also upgraded to oil burning, but I also recall prior to that, one shovelful of coal put in the...

That "silverfish" looking romex sure had a lot of paper inside it. I've encountered that type without a grounding conductor, and some with a minuscule grounding conductor that looks like about a 20 AWG size and will break off if you look at it the wrong way. Another wonderful feature of this...

That black steel conduit pipe may have originated as gas piping that fed a gas lamp. That was how some of the earliest wiring was installed, pulled through the old gas pipes. I worked on an old farmhouse back in 1991 that read like a history of electrical wiring methods. Cotton insulated wire...