Back in the 60s my dad bought his first "hi-fi" system back when radios were only in mono. It was a pioneer tube radio and the speaker was a 12" woofer with a wooden horn. Later he bought a stereo and then copied the pioneer speaker so he had a set.

The speaker is really weird but it works good i think so i replaced the drivers with a set of eminence 12" for sound reinforcement. 500 watts or somthing.

Anyway im using these in my HT rig, my speakers are the CLS cerwinvega center and matching bookshelf for the sattelites. THe vegas are powered from the receiver the 12" in the cabnets my dad built run off the sub preamp out into a kenwood preamp eq, then into a kenwood power amp. I can adjust the level with the preamp and tweak the EQ curve.

This seems to work ok but it sounds better from the side or else im imagin it?

The cabnets are a folded design for the porting. The bottom shelf has a slot where its not fully sealed. THe floor is the bottom part of the fold.

Which Pioneer tube radio???

Well im not sure about the mono one but we still have the stereo one hanging around. He said one of the little switches went bad and he never got around to changing it.

It has all these little slide switches that change from say phono to aux input or somthing.

Im in a wheelchair and when i cleaned up the basement to convert it to a HT room i sit the thing on the floor and now i cant lift it off the floor to move it. It is a monster!

Are you interested in it? I dont think its very powerful but it has tubes so it probobly sounds sweet.

I hung on to the reel to reel, the receiver and the turntable.

Well im not sure about the mono one but we still have the stereo one hanging around. He said one of the little switches went bad and he never got around to changing it.

It has all these little slide switches that change from say phono to aux input or somthing.

Im in a wheelchair and when i cleaned up the basement to convert it to a HT room i sit the thing on the floor and now i cant lift it off the floor to move it. It is a monster!

Are you interested in it? I dont think its very powerful but it has tubes so it probobly sounds sweet.

I hung on to the reel to reel, the receiver and the turntable.

No, not interested, for me the good tube radios ended in 1939. ;)

EDIT: Sorry to hear about the wheelchair. Hang on to all of them, they must be nice peices of equipment! Tube radios don't have high power ratings but they don't need it. 16 watts is plenty! Good luck with the HT!

No, not interested, for me the good tube radios ended in 1939. ;)

EDIT: Sorry to hear about the wheelchair. Hang on to all of them, they must be nice peices of equipment! Tube radios don't have high power ratings but they don't need it. 16 watts is plenty! Good luck with the HT!

I think its an SX800, i keep forgetting to look at the model when im down there. I have to weel out down the street to the other driveway to the garage. My room edition is built on the other side of the house from the garage so i have to out and around to get down there.