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My son found this console for free on a sidewalk in Seattle, and it is now at our house.
It is a 1962 Ambassador Stereophonic High Fidelity with a Voice of Music 1255 changer, an amp with EL84 output tubes, and three Oxford speakers per channel.
The electronics look impressive before restoration despite the corrosion, and the turntable platter spins easily despite old grease.
Thanks in advance. Bill.
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Sams lists many schematics for Ambassador but I didn't see any for the numbers shown in your post.
I found a somewhat similar Ambassador console years ago but I don't think it had a tuner, only a turntable. It was in bad shape so I just pulled the amp. I later removed one of the OTs and converted it into guitar amp that I gave to one of my former students. Basically, I cloned a Fender tweed Champ but since the amp had 9 pin sockets I used a 12AB5 output tube (9 pin 6V6 near equivalent) and mounted a Radio Shack 12.6v filament transformer in place of the second OT.
Can't find any pics at the moment, but the tube layout may have been a bit different than yours. I do have the Sams for it and it may be similar. The Sams I have does have the tuner and schematics for both a PP and SE amp version.
You don't accept unsolicited email but if you click on my moniker and send me an email with your regular email address I can send you the Sams that I have.
I never realized my account said no emails accepted. Thanks for catching that too.
I have the Sams for the turntable but none for the electronics. The amp looks fairly simple, but that tuner does not.
A couple years ago I picked up a $20 1957 Fender Princeton at an estate sale, but it has all the original electrolytic caps. Feel lucky to have it, but that's still another project.
That was a great use of the beat up console you found.
I have seen one or two of these units in this forum before-
the amp is using one EL-84/channel - ~ 5 watts IIRC
The small chassis in picture 6 is the MPX unit
The tuner might need an alignment - and new tubes for optimum performance - Also an outside antenna.
Sweet unit -
Happy Listening
nt
Potentially should sound quite sweet. Have you got a variac to bring that valve setup up slowly so the capacitors have a chance to reform. Give it half an hour at 1/3 of volts, then half an hour at 2/3 of volts. By then you should start to here something. I use a phone with music on on a 3.5mm to twin phono lead for a source. Feed that to those channel 1 and channel 2 inputs.
This site might help, you need to find a model number to match. When you do I used to belong to the BVWS and have the CD ROM of Trader circuits so can email you the correct pdf
of the numbers match what you sent. I also don't know which of the numbers on the tag to pick for a model number. Thanks though.
THAT might be handy to have for any number of vintage FM receivers
something I found, "Ambassador was the house brand for stores under the conglomerate of Allied Stores Marketing". It's a 'stencil', who knows who made it. With a VOM turntable, might be VOM manufacture.
Back for a bit again. Ignore me if you like.
Allied stores was the distributor for this console that was made by Audio Industries, who made units for several brands. This information came from thevoiceofmusic.com.
I cannot find any more information on Audio Industries, and and I wish I knew where Audio Industries was located in order to narrow down the google search. You can imagine what how much unrelated information shows up when you type "Audio Industries" in the URL space.
The tuner in this unit is quite extensive, especially when the MPX preamp is included.
A lot of these modest consoles were built in and around Chicago. Just for kicks I googled Audio Industries Inc and Chicago and hit a labor law case in Chicago, and found the Michigan City Indiana reference
Likely very little info out there, these were modest products and the product lines didn't survive changing tastes and the Japanese onslaught. Best source is probably Sams Photofacts if you can figure out how it's listed.
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nt
from Hayseed before getting started. I previously used the variac on my Fisher X-100C, and it did work okay. I just have to find the variac after the move. Thanks.
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