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Got this radio off the internet, still functional. All was okay with it, except the damn courier did a number and broke its scale. I glued it back, but of course now it is in a worse condition.
Radiomuseum and the technical papers from SABA that i found over the internet said it had 12 transistors, but this model must be a later one, because it most certainly does not ! I have the metal grille version too, and that one has the right number, but this radio here has 14 transistors. As far as I can see, the extra 2 are in the IF part or maybe one of them is an RF amp for short wave. A nice addition all I can say about the extra performance.
The radio has 2 speakers as it can clearly be seen. The tweeter is about 5 cm in diameter and the mid-bass is 13x18 cm. On the back of the radio there's a switch for turning the tweeter off if you think the radio sounds too tinny. Which it most certainly does not. This Radio has excellent sound accuracy, the reproduction is very good, and on mains it can put out about 2 watts of clean undistorted audio.
The reception is also not bad, although on FM sometimes it misses a station or two. Probably it needs some better alignment, but i do not posses the signal generating equipment, so, if it ain't broke, I ain't gonna fix it.
on AM broadcast the reception is stellar, just look at that ferrite antenna it has!
I did replace though all the electrolytics and the dial lights. The dial lights turn on only on mains power though. You cannot temporarily switch them while the radio is running on battery.
I'm not a big fan of the whole woodgrain aesthetic of the 70s but it was all over the place back in those days.
The radio is quite compact, and runs on 6 C cells. Overall a nice addition to my collection, I just hope I'll get one in a better shape in the future.
1 сен 2022
