Tony L
Administrator
In part to emphasise that whilst headphones are clearly the ‘big ticket’ item this room’s scope encompasses all portable audio, so here’s a thread about radios! Everyone likes a nice radio:
Here’s mine, a mid-80s Roberts R25. Just a classic simple MW/LW/FM radio. Nothing fancy, but very nicely made and pretty easy to service. I’ve also got a rather tatty later-era Roberts Revival in the bathroom which actually gets a lot more use (I want to keep the R25 in this lovely pretty much as-new condition and the bathroom gets too much sun and humidity). Thankfully you can still buy the big square batteries and they last for ages. They are both decent sounding radios.
I never got ‘fancy’ with radios as I’ve always had a proper hi-fi and that sucked all my money. A portable radio was just something for the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom or whatever, so I never ended up with a ghetto-blaster, multi-band world-receiver or anything despite always liking them as their own genre.
Very happy to host anything that can be categorised as portable audio in this room, so everything from my humble R25 mono radio through to beautiful high-end Nagra open reel recorders belong here along with all the headphones as far as I’m concerned. My HMV 102 portable wind-up 78 gramophone does too.
Anyway, anyone got any interesting radios?
Here’s mine, a mid-80s Roberts R25. Just a classic simple MW/LW/FM radio. Nothing fancy, but very nicely made and pretty easy to service. I’ve also got a rather tatty later-era Roberts Revival in the bathroom which actually gets a lot more use (I want to keep the R25 in this lovely pretty much as-new condition and the bathroom gets too much sun and humidity). Thankfully you can still buy the big square batteries and they last for ages. They are both decent sounding radios.
I never got ‘fancy’ with radios as I’ve always had a proper hi-fi and that sucked all my money. A portable radio was just something for the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom or whatever, so I never ended up with a ghetto-blaster, multi-band world-receiver or anything despite always liking them as their own genre.
Very happy to host anything that can be categorised as portable audio in this room, so everything from my humble R25 mono radio through to beautiful high-end Nagra open reel recorders belong here along with all the headphones as far as I’m concerned. My HMV 102 portable wind-up 78 gramophone does too.
Anyway, anyone got any interesting radios?