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Old 08-14-2012, 01:06 PM
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I'll post one later after work....but I can already see this is an IDENTICAL set you posted a pic of. has that same thumbwheel tuning at the extreme right and everything.

I was suspecting it was the same as the "Rhapsody" sets...but I don't own one (yet). The Shadow is pretty much the same cabinet but the tuning thumbwheel is more like a "barrel" and not a dial. I bet they are nearly identical inside if I took one of the Maggie Shadows apart.

I like these little sets. love their "cube" form factor BECAUSE of the little CRT they use. I know nothing about the CRT itself, but it has a nice flat face...and appears to be a high deflection unit to keep the depth small. They fit in "weird" places like on the toilet tank in the bathroom where a big long "Bentley" 5 inch would never fit

I like this one in particular because I had NEVER seen a "Mecoa" branded set.....and it was another one of those I rescued from being gone forever, and then of course I like this form factor. There is likely no real other redeeming factor. This "Mecoa" is no doubt just some rebrand of whoever ACTUALLY builds the Rhapsody sets.

I'll post a pic of THIS set (white)...one of the "unmolested" Magnavox Shadow (also white), and of the one I customized to be BRIGHT red with a redone front bezel. These bezels are nothing but real thin lexan or something. The red one came ALL banged and scratched up, so I had to make sort of a new one. You'll notice these three sets look ALL the same except the Maggies seem to have a nicer version of the same two switches...volume slider...and a "barrel" version of that tuning knob.
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