Harvey Mattel says there are two kinds of radio collectors: Those who collect for what's on the inside and those who collect for what's on the outside. He's the latter. But you would never know this ...

Nowadays we take for granted the ability to just turn on our car radio when we want news, music, or entertainment while traveling about. Such convenience was not always the case. Prior to the 1930s, ...

Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

Growing up, I used the intercom system to broadcast 8-track tapes through the house like it was my own radio station. A lamp outside my door had a red light bulb, alerting passersby that I was ...

It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although thoughts recall the radio programing of the day when we hear the term, the equipment itself was also “golden,” so to speak.

I could not write articles about vintage radio without including Atwater Kent, both the man and his radios. He is a legend among vintage enthusiasts and radio collectors, revered with near deity ...

In contrast to most modern builds we see on Hackaday, vintage radios are fairly simple – mainly turret-board builds with a transformer, resistors, capacitors, coil and tubes. The main issues in any ...

A.bsolument turns your dusty old radio into a Bluetooth beauty with French savoir-faire—because even your granny’s relic deserves to sound magnifique, not like a cheap baguette crunch. I’m currently ...

Sometimes it is not how good but how bad your equipment reproduces sound. In a previous hackaday post the circuitry of a vintage transistor radio was removed so that a blue tooth audio source could be ...

Tom Carlson remembers when the radio bug first hit him: He was staying at his grandfather's cabin when he saw a 1963 Zenith radio high up on a shelf. Carlson recalled that he was either 10 or 12 when ...

Long before television there was radio. First tabletops then consoles made their way into the living rooms of Americans. Families would gather around their radios to listen to the nightly news and ...

The A.bsolument Vintage Radios are now available thanks to Focal Naim America and when they’re gone — they’re gone. Did you grow up with a transistor radio or boombox? A Panasonic Transistor Radio and ...