Tandberg, Radionette, Electrocompaniet, former electronics Norwegian brands, the latter still in game. Some years back Electrocompaniet gained some recognition when it became known Michael Jackson himself preferred their amplifiers. Tandberg was a genius and their radio receivers were legendary. Their "household" receivers were sometimes preferred to professional military and industrial equipment based on their performance. At their peak, the Sovjet leader insisted on paying this factory a visit. However, Tandberg was also known to be a little strange and did not follow social clues very well, he designed radios from a very young age, was a loner and regarded his factory as family, however in the end, people at the factory could not longer endure his strange appearance when he went for a visit. His social life and parties was also known to be strange. In 1937, Tandberg introduced 70% salary if sickness occurred (3 months max) and 3 weeks of holiday, a practise unheard of at that time. Tandberg ended his life when he realized that his electronic plant could not survive, it formally failed in 1978 after the state had tried to save it, shortly after his suicide. He died poor without family, as he used his fortune to save his "life's work" to no avail, even he had a big fortune his lifestyle expressed similarities to a life enduring poverty They also made televisions(from 1958), reel to reel players , microphones, speakers, conference systems and computers, but the competition from abroad especially Asia became to prevalent for this relatively small scale Norwegian factory up here in the forest. Tandberg and Radionette vintage radio's and tv's are sought after vintage collectors items today.
I have a still fully working Tandberg Model 11 portable Tape Recorder bought in 1969 His has has a number of service,s and repair,s . Also have two eorking Model 15 tape recorders
Excellent Tip for testing old speakers, you just never know who's had them or what has been done to them. I use an old amp that is pretty much worthless. But the FM static is a good call.
Been down that road before ! I got really lucky with my Rogers Studio 1A’s ( they only needed some crossover refurbishment) picked them super cheap. They sound wonderful !
I like the idea of the FM static to test speakers. Other than that, I would be more worried connecting a vintage amp to my speakers than the other way around. I used to repair audio in the 80's and we had 12" Philips full range drivers to test the amps. That saved a lot of tweeters.
Subscrided to matt's channel. That should be useful as I've been wanting to replace the caps in my Sansui ES-200's (similar closed box threeways as those Tandbergs but all Japanese drivers). Buying vintage is a learning experience. I have a pair of Beovox 3702 where someone replaced the 4 ohm mid units with 16 ohm ones. He put a resistor in parallel to make them 4 ohm again...
I could have obviously done the crossovers myself but I wanted to show there’s a great community of us guys doing our thing and wanted to share the love
Thanks Kevin, great content as always, keep up all the good work ! on a personal note I need to chat to you about some of my Celestion stuff that needs to come your way ;)
