Valve power amps in The Twilight Zone

[rigger67]

I've been watching the entire run of The Twilight Zone over the last couple of months and as the series nears its end for me, I find myself wading through the patchy material of season 5, which definitely seems to have more quirky and deliberately humorous episodes than the classic first three series.

In the show I watched this morning, the subject was a loud man .. a very loud man (The Twilight Zone season 5, episode 27 : Sounds And Silences).
He was obsessed with the navy and all things nautical and annoyed everyone around him by playing recordings of actual sea battles from WWII, like the battleship Missouri pounding Okinawa.

To make the whole thing plausible, they had one hell of a hifi for the time - the episode was first aired in 1964 - complete with twin valve power amps, two turntables and a reel to reel machine.
I have no idea what any of the gear is apart from there clearly being a Garrard turntable of some kind, but I thought it looked pretty cool so I made a few screengrabs for the forum. I know there's plenty of audio-porn aficionado in here - enjoy !

[Macca]

speakers look a bit poxy, seems to have a centre channel too.

[User211]

It is a good episode.

McIntosh tuner/receiver no less.

Best Twilight Zone episode in my book was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Wh...Sky_Was_Opened

They were all on YouTube at one stage. Not now apart from in useless quality designed to bypass the YT copyright detection bots. You can rent them on Amazon but they want £2.49 an episode. Try a P2P program and get them for nowt if yer feeling brave.

[nthall]

The receiver is definitely a McIntosh. It's hard to tell but the mono blocks look like Marantz Model 2s.

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[Firebottle]

The cloth on the speaker below the R2R and TT makes me think Leak, so maybe the valve amps are as well?

[Gordon Steadman]

I can't see the pics!!

[struth]

Garrard turntable on left. Not sure of the other..its got a spinde. R2r looks rubbish lol but at least it stands up. Dare say it all cost a few bob and may have been the guy operating its.. forgot his name

[nthall]

I think the table on the right is a Stromberg Carlson. I've got one at home that I pulled out of a portable. The arm and switches look the same. I can post a picture when I get home.

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[nthall]

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[Light Dependant Resistor]

Hi
A bit of a classic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromberg-Carlson

What is interesting to me is the description of FM stations in the above Wikipedia page - avoiding mentioning Major Edwin Howard Armstrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong
Armstrong along with Lucien Levy being responsible for the super heterodyne circuit making AM possible for the public
and very much where Stromberg Carlson had huge success with selling radio sets in the mid 1920's

But FM being Armstrongs main invention which he holds patents for, known as a concept but was thought to be unachievable ( Carson 1922 ). Armstongs station
in New Jersey at Alpine being the first to broadcast FM on a regular basis. Slightly earlier equipment was moved into the Empire State building
by Armstong to test FM and very much where the controversy commenced ending in Armstrongs suicide in 1954.

In a nutshell the American government did not want a successor to AM because of vested interest in propaganda they
were using AM for. A bit like one country today trying to own the internet for their own causes.

Essential reading are two books "Armstrongs Fight for FM broadcasting" Don Erikson and "Man of High Fidelity" Lawrence Lessing

A real piece of history the Stromberg Carlson turntable probably dating to late 1940's, earlier versions of the turntable were available on large sets that had radios built in
I used to have one.

Cheers / Chris