Herald Electronics Background Music Receiver

Another interesting piece of vintage audio equipment...and it had quite a trip back to me!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• vintage
• Herald
• Electronics
• Background
• Music
• Receiver
• Audio
• Distribution
• Amplifier
• Model
• RA-92

[chatrkat]

that unit must have very low hours. I remember those and the lamps burned so bright they were short lived. in it's day those were pretty well built for a low priced commercial component. good find especially for free!

[uxwbill]

Well, hello again! (Long time, no see.) I was really quite surprised that all of the backlighting worked.

I agree wholeheartedly--this unit does seem to have a pretty solid build quality and it sounds pretty good. Now I just need to figure out what I will do with it. I'm sure I will come up with something.

[thegeekredneck]

Bill, did you do something different with the encoding on this video? For some reason it just won't load right for me. :-( It goes in stops and starts....  really weird.

[uxwbill]

It's probably network weather or you got a connection to an overworked server. Give it more time on pause (to let it buffer out further) or reflect, repent, reboot and reload... :-)

[ncrdisabled]

Wow that kicked my mind back when I was in the NAVY on Submarines 25 years ago

I had to work on a sunstrand back ground system that played only sunstrand tapes

that fed out to all the headphone jacks in all the sleeping bunks. There is no actual live music on submarines.

Please keep the videos coming

[uxwbill]

Well, despite what the Beatles sang about, I wouldn't expect there to be a live band on a submarine... :-) And entertainment radio broadcasts might not work all that well. I guess some music is better than none.

[markflores12371]

thanks for this one

[cbancaw2010]

ive actually got a realistic unit like this, its 40 watts rms by 1 channel, i use it for a power amp behind a guitar pedal lol

[thegeekredneck]

@uxwbill Yeah I finally had to just let it sit paused for ten minutes. Really weird, my connection is fine (6mbit) and every other video loads instantly. I think YouTube stuck your video on a server in Saudi Arabia! :-D

[rhblakeman]

@uxwbill I've seen all sorts of things for background or on hold over the years, back in stores in chicago as a kid through the work I do in commercial buildings. Not the same model but there's a smaller grocery I do camera work on (1985 surveillance equipment but with a modern dvr in place of the now dead betamax recorder) and their BG music system has been on the shelf in the back office since it was installed new. Even the speakers are the same. I had to replace some mouse chewed wires on it.

[uxwbill]

Things like this don't seem as common here. What I usually see is an ancient stereo receiver pressed into doing the job. The most recent one I saw was an ancient "Concord" eight track + AM/FM receiver driving two speakers in a lawyer's office.

The RIAA lost the plot a long time ago. I have a record album sleeve that declares them to be "a non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of recorded music and literature". ... Har har har.

[JeffN727]

Cool! Yes, these are for a large PA system. There is a similar receiver where I work, we listen to the radio over the PA, but its a more modern digital unit.

I'm in Michigan, but I'm a long long way from alberta. I'm probably closer to where you are than there.