Quote Originally Posted by Ioannis View Post
Very nice indeed! This is what can be called art!
Never mind Art - that's Engineering... I actually spent about ten minutes admiring that design... it is so way ahead of it's time it's almost uncanny...

It's not multi-channel audio, but just consider... Centre Bass Speaker (today we'll have a Centre Bass and we call it a Woofer), Centre High Range (today we have centre tweeters), Left & Right Mid-Range... all the elements of what today is 'Home Cinema'.

Motorised Turret Tuner - that's about five years ahead from when MANUAL one's were introduced into TV sets... never seen a Turret Tuner in a plain radio receiver from a western manufacturer... let alone a motorised one!

Cable Remote... Volume, Tuning and Wavechange and even Dial-Lights (how many Remotes do you have in your house with integral illumination?)... and look how THIN the cable to the Remote is... OK, it is done by wire (ie mechanical), but that's not the point.

B7G & B9A valves - when in the West most manufacturers were still fitting Octal...

The more you look at it, the more innovation you find... this is World-beating leading-edge technology of it's day - and for a domestic consumer market... it's a shame, so few people will look at that and realise what's actually there... just another square wooden box with valves inside...