captainclock
Pacifist Otaku
Hi everyone, today I visited a friend of mine from church who has a neighbor who had recently bought from an estate sale a top of the line Magnavox Astrosonic Console Stereo from around 1965 with automatic tuning and a remote controller to control the stereo's power and volume.
When my friend's neighbor had bought the unit it was hooked up at the previous owner's house to a whole-house speaker system with the stereo playing through it plain as day but then when the stereo was disconnected from that whole-house speaker system so that the stereo could be transported to my friend's neighbor's house (well garage) my friend's neighbor discovered that the original internal speaker wires were cut and spliced by the previous owner so that it could be wired into the whole-house speaker system that it was wired into previously.
Anyways my friend's neighbor disconnected the old whole-house speaker system hookups from the amplifier connections and rewired the built-in speakers like how the schematic on the back of the console had indicated they should of been wired up, but when he did that he went to power on the system and there was no audio coming out of the speakers (which the speaker system this unit uses is the TOTL 15" Woofer and Mid horn and Horn Tweeter set up that Magnavox was known for in their TOTL consoles) and I took a look at the unit and monkeyed with the connections and I can't really seem to get it to do anything either, I even checked the crossover circuit and it seems to have never been touched, and all I can figure out is that there's a pushbutton switch on the top of the tuner/preamp assembly that sits next to the balance control knob that's marked "Push-On Volume" and when I pushed the pushbutton control switch there would be audio coming out of the speakers but it would be nothing but static and no audio from the tuner or the turntable just a loud, crackly, staticky noise and when I would let up on the pushbutton switch the stereo would go back to being silent again.
Does anyone have any experience with this particular console and some of its quirks, or what could be wrong with this stereo?
Any Help would be appreciated.
Also sorry about there being no pictures, its in the guy's garage and I had no way to take any pictures.
When my friend's neighbor had bought the unit it was hooked up at the previous owner's house to a whole-house speaker system with the stereo playing through it plain as day but then when the stereo was disconnected from that whole-house speaker system so that the stereo could be transported to my friend's neighbor's house (well garage) my friend's neighbor discovered that the original internal speaker wires were cut and spliced by the previous owner so that it could be wired into the whole-house speaker system that it was wired into previously.
Anyways my friend's neighbor disconnected the old whole-house speaker system hookups from the amplifier connections and rewired the built-in speakers like how the schematic on the back of the console had indicated they should of been wired up, but when he did that he went to power on the system and there was no audio coming out of the speakers (which the speaker system this unit uses is the TOTL 15" Woofer and Mid horn and Horn Tweeter set up that Magnavox was known for in their TOTL consoles) and I took a look at the unit and monkeyed with the connections and I can't really seem to get it to do anything either, I even checked the crossover circuit and it seems to have never been touched, and all I can figure out is that there's a pushbutton switch on the top of the tuner/preamp assembly that sits next to the balance control knob that's marked "Push-On Volume" and when I pushed the pushbutton control switch there would be audio coming out of the speakers but it would be nothing but static and no audio from the tuner or the turntable just a loud, crackly, staticky noise and when I would let up on the pushbutton switch the stereo would go back to being silent again.
Does anyone have any experience with this particular console and some of its quirks, or what could be wrong with this stereo?
Any Help would be appreciated.
Also sorry about there being no pictures, its in the guy's garage and I had no way to take any pictures.