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My '63 Curtis Mathes b&w combo puts out an impressive sound. It has two 12" woofers and four 3-inch tweets/mids. Puts out both good bass and treble. Output is thru two 6BQ5's. Sounds great with radio, records, TV, and a CD player plugged in.
My '66 CM color combo is alright, but not near as good as the '63 model. The '66 CM is running two 8" woofers and two 4" mids driven by two 6BQ5's. It does have a clean sound, but the smaller woofers take away from the bass.
The '65 Magnavox combo I brought home last week is definately lacking in the audio. The Astro-Sonic stereo is all solid-state. Sounds like it could possibly use some new output transistors. I think it has 4. I'll probably change those old electrolytics on the cross-over as well. The audio is somewhat garbled. Looks like it has either 10 or 12 inch woofers, and also has a set of horn tweeters. The bass is pretty deep... but garbled.
So, between the 3 of mine, the 63 CM sounds best and gets the award. I've been listening to it for 10 years now, and I've always been impressed with it's sound.
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Charlie Trahan
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