OT Home theater 1950's style

**Old Guy** · December 31st, 2013, 07:53 AM

Things have changed a bit-were I younger I'd buy this and restore...

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**wws944** · January 1st, 2014, 12:12 AM

My parents bought a 1950s Hoffman TV with "3-speaker Sound-O-Rama Hi-Fi" sound when they were first married. It managed to survive up until about 10 years ago, when my mom finally gave it away. There was a lot of noise in the audio, and the picture was dim. No doubt the filter caps in the power supply were shot.

Pretty sure it was the Huntington model on the upper left:

As you can see from the lower photos, there were two oval woofers, and some sort of horn loaded cone tweeter between the woofers. I also recall there was an RCA jack and switch on the back for AUX in.

**cradeldorf** · January 4th, 2014, 03:12 PM

I laugh every time inspector Luger on Barney Miller claims he has a Dumont.

**bowtie427ss** · January 5th, 2014, 09:44 AM

I had a Dumont extremely similar to the maggotbox in the OP. It got flooded in '11 and i sadly didn't take the time to salvage as much as i could. My local tube guru was fighting a losing cancer battle at the time, so i just pulled the tubes(bucketload of 6V6's) and sent the rest to bask in the landfill. Hindsight being 20/20, i should have pulled the 10inch roundie CRT and the massive 50lb power tranny. I just had too many other priorities at the time. The bright side is it curbed my hoarding and buying. Now i don't even look at stuff unless it's very special and ridiculously underpriced.

**Old Guy** · January 5th, 2014, 05:08 PM

I recall back in the 60's owning a Dumont oscilloscope.

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**Old Guy** · January 16th, 2014, 08:39 AM

Not trying to beat a dead horse, but couldn't resist this old DuMont pic.

**bowtie427ss** · January 16th, 2014, 09:47 AM

THAT is a nifty piece!

I see so many reflections in it, beginning with the central knob cluster laid out exactly as they had been for decades on the "tombstone" cabinet radios.

Then it just takes off into the post modern retro world. It's even got a Buick grill!

The tuning knobs remind me of the very first "portable" sets, think ours was a Zenith with 2 huge knobs, one in each lower corner.

Just a wicked cool piece, i for one am glad you posted it. Don't think i've ever seen one before.

Almost totally unrelated, i still immediately see the big square box with a lens(the Electronicam) whenever i see or hear the name Dumont.