Marlin Mackley
Active Member
Hi folks! I have been away from the chat group for a while, and normally haunt the tv section of AK but I found a goodie recently and wanted to share it with ya'll. This is a 1958 Fisher Stereo console, modern walnut cabinet, that was supposedly bought for around $1000 in early 1959. That might be an exaggeration as the guy who gave it to me acted like it would outpower a rock and roll band and probably was overly excited about the value too. Anyway it works great, uses the 9 pin output tubes for a massive 12 watts per channel, and I have to say it really rocks this place with that output! It features a Garrard turntable with two cart heads, one with the variable reluctance (is that right?) 78 cart still mounted. I have not played records on it yet as I had to cut some cables to remove the turntable when moving it. It had to go on its end to get it out of where it was so I stripped all the electronicals for the relocation. Anyhow the really impressive thing to me is the tuner. The AM has a broad/narrow bandwidth selector, and the FM section has the best selectivity I have ever seen. I probably own 40 FM radios, from my 1975 Kenwood tuner to a series of Armstrong Zeniths and the only other set I have that will pick up two favorite but faint stations is a Nordmende German job, and it is noisy. The Fisher sucks those stations in like a vacuum, and clear and clean. As with most early tuners it has seperate sections for AM and FM, with seperate bar type "tuning eye" tubes, and seperate knobs. Great for presetting my fav AM and FM stations. I forgot to check the chassis for model #s before I shoved it against a wall and put things on top of it so don't have those details right now. This is my every day listener!
Regards,
Marlin
Regards,
Marlin