[ARC5] NC-270 Success

[Richard Knoppow]

    I looked through your site, lots of interesting stuff there.
    You mentioned the speakers supplied for the Hammarlund HQ-120-X and 
other receivers. AFAIK the cabinets were stock Bud items. I have a 
couple with Jensen speakers in them. The cabinet color varies. I think 
they may have offered them in bulk to manufacturers with special 
finishes. I have a couple of old Bud catalogs, they show a similar 
cabinet with chrome stripes running vertically. Hammarlund seems to have 
offered the same cabinet, with horizontal chrome strips for the 
Super-Pro receivers. Those seem to have been sold with unmounted 
speakers, either Jensen or Rola.
    Bud made a large variety of cabinets of various sorts and 
undoubtedly changed the details of the styling on occasion. I have other 
speaker boxes with Bud labels on them but of different style from the 
rounded corner ones sold for Hammarlund.
    Another thought that has nothing to do with speakers:
    When you speak of sensitivity what exactly are you measuring?
    Manufacturers specified different techniques, some of which are 
useful only for determining if the gain is normal. Sometimes people plug 
similar tubes into the RF stages and find they make the sets "hot" but 
never measure signal to noise.


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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL