The 1958 Motorola Stereophonic Hi-Fi!

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[Edison1252]

You have a beautiful home. I love your videos where you pan the room. Takes me back to when this country really meant something to the world.

[drh4683]

@Edison1252 Why thank you my friend!

[rivest266]

What is this thing next to left of the clock radio at 6:47 ?

[drh4683]

@rivest266 Its a 1955 Telefunken Bajazzo portable AM FM tube type radio. 

[jdollinter]

@drh4683 Feel like I've been transported back to '58 to look at a brand new, out of the box,Motorola Stereo.Did you restore this or did it come in this pristine condition? Never seen anything like it. It must of cost a bundle when it was new. When did they start selling stereo Hi FI's ?

[drh4683]

@jdollinter This is how it looked when I got it. The original owners just bought it and never touched it. It was in a large wealthy home and was in one of those rooms that was for show that nobody ever went in. I was the first to service it and it didn't need much other than a new idler tire to fix the phonograph. I believe stereophonic Hi-Fi's first came out in 1957, so this is indeed a very early unit of the stereo age.

[78rpmblog]

What a true beauty!

[force311999]

flawless 

[MegaRadio90]

Forgot to mention they still had the VM table in 67 fitted with an Ortofon cartridge and stylus and they are still making those wonderful cartridge's today. :)

[MegaRadio90]

I'm old enough to have grown up with the great Motorola console Stereo my mother had from 1967. Her first major purchase it was all that and of course by 1967 equipped with FM stereo & solid-state electronic's and quite powerful at a 100 watts per channel. Featured a 12 inch cone woofer's horn loaded midrange, and cone loaded tweeter's and boy she could get up and boogie for the time. I'm an audiophile and into music in big way thanks for your great video's of all thing old. :) Motorola's would

[75capriceconvertible]

@chompo7 you said it Joe. This is at the point in time when IMHO they had nearly perfected "high fidelity" audio for the home user, then applied the stereo aspect to everything, and occasionally even took it one step further with the center channel idea. Prehistoric surround sound! When we were growing up this would be a rich man's toy!

[electronmusicjunkie]

Wish I could get my hands on one of these old Motorola tube stereos from the early 60s. I heard a 1960 model with 3 channel stereo and in a drexel cabinet. The audio was awesome. Made old records sound the way they should compared to the way they sounded on decent solid state units where you tended to hear the surface noise and distirtion more.

[chompo7]

@75capriceconvertible awesome isnt it billy? this is just like mine but mine is mahogany.these are such awesome sounding machines for being so early in the life

of stereo.i cant remember what my grandparents paid but it was between 4 and 6 hundred 1958 dollars!

[frangiul13]

Absolutely GORGEOUS blonde console!!!!