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sofaslug
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Post subject: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie  Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 1:26 am |
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 1:38 am |
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Yep, Saw them listed last night, all 4 Gorgeous, I particularly like the "Riviera" model but that's just my taste.  Lloyd ____________________________________________________________________ Sometimes, the Heart can only SEE, what the EYES Cannot
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 1:51 am |
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That Majestic 886 is beautiful, that is my kind of radio, i wish i had a couple of thousand dollars spare.
maybe one day i will own one of these beauties
thanks for sharing.
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 2:25 am |
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Those are some pretty radios , all right. Forgive my ignorance, how do they perform?
Paul
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DavidS
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 3:25 pm |
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That's one impressive group 
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 5:50 pm |
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I can't find schematics for any of these sets. Anyone know how they are listed in Rider's? I'm curious to see the layout.
Thanks
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 5:52 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Thu 17, 2012 9:25 pm |
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4 really neat looking cabinets and they all look to have the same puny AM only 6 tube chassis...
What a shame ,they shoulda stuffed some big 10 tuber in there!
Phil
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Sun 20, 2012 1:42 am |
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Is that the original chassis for that 886 Park Avenue set? It has a speaker bracket that would have been used in a tabletop cabinet, that the other three with the same chassis don't seem to have..
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sofaslug
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Sun 20, 2012 11:03 pm |
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Ted Hutson wrote: Is that the original chassis for that 886 Park Avenue set? It has a speaker bracket that would have been used in a tabletop cabinet, that the other three with the same chassis don't seem to have.. Yeah, I was wondering about that, too -- but maybe Majestic just used whatever chassis they could, or used the same one in the Park Avenue and a table top. (The Park Avenue, unlike the other three smart set consoles, doesn't have the front knobs on a horizontal plane.) That definitely doesn't look like the original on-off/volume knob though. Bob
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Mon 21, 2012 3:28 am |
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DavidS wrote: That's one impressive group Yeah. Add one more thats in that list.. although not a majestic .. same style super stuff. Stromberg Carlson 145P Console Radio Interesting that the top three went to the same bidder... only the Lido went to some one else. Guess the buyer probably already had a Lido... just needed the rest to complete the lineup. John k9uwa
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DavidS
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Mon 21, 2012 4:05 am |
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Stromberg Carlson 145P Console Radio Yes very impressive and it sold for only a little over 1200.00 . Which was cheap even though the r/p was replaced . This wonderful set seems to have not held it's value over the last 15 years . ... Buy them because you like them ! ... Not for an investment  
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Post subject: Re: Deco Majestic console collection from Willie Posted: May Mon 21, 2012 12:34 pm |
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I was interested in the Stromberg Carlson, but the cracked dial scared me off. $1200 seems pretty cheap. Everyone seems to want $3000 or more for those.
Willie's Lido went cheap, but then it's like the fourth or fifth one on e-Bay in the last few months.
Peter
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