Admiral console

[matt_s78mn]

Wow, does that ever bring back memories. My grandparents had an Admiral console with that exact same radio and turntable. That's right, it would be early '70's vintage. My grandpa got it as a gift from his Lawn Boy distributor for selling a large number of mowers. They replaced it with a mid 70's Zenith console, and they stowed the Admiral away in a storage room, because the record changer never worked correctly. The tone arm would always drop in random places, instead of on the edge of the record where it should. They had the changer looked at several times, and no one could get it fixed quite right. About 15 years ago or so, during spring cleaning, I saved it from going to the dump. I fiddled with the changer but ended up pulling the radio and speakers and got rid of the rest of it. I don't recall the radio's FM performance being all that great with the built in antenna, but It worked well when I had it attached to a rooftop FM antenna and rf amplifier. (it was rural Nebraska, you needed that kind of setup to get any kind of decent stations.) Anyway, this may be a stretch because it's been so long - but I'm thinking the radio was OEM'ed by Sanyo.