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What headphone did you start off with?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sten" data-source="post: 809583" data-attributes="member: 2243"><p>I started off low-fi in 1954 with a pair of WW2 RAF earphones of the rocking armature type. These were considered the best and most sensitive for use with the home-built crystal sets which were then de rigueur for any technically minded boy. The type 18 BPO earpieces (with the slide on and off diaphragms), also used in the old Bakelite type telephones, were considered inferior. As I recall the cost of the good ones was ten shillings at H Falkson in Church street west Pretoria, a veritable Aladdin's cave of war surplus technical goodies. (Hands up please anyone who ever bought something at Falksons). The SABC at the time had a medium wave transmitter site at Silverton with probably 10 kilowatts or so for each service. The antenna was a centre fed vertical lattice mast. Since the site was about four miles from Menlo Park where I lived reception was excellent. Choice of service was English or Afrikaans, or the wondrous Springbok Radio. Good days one way and another! </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sten, post: 809583, member: 2243"] I started off low-fi in 1954 with a pair of WW2 RAF earphones of the rocking armature type. These were considered the best and most sensitive for use with the home-built crystal sets which were then de rigueur for any technically minded boy. The type 18 BPO earpieces (with the slide on and off diaphragms), also used in the old Bakelite type telephones, were considered inferior. As I recall the cost of the good ones was ten shillings at H Falkson in Church street west Pretoria, a veritable Aladdin's cave of war surplus technical goodies. (Hands up please anyone who ever bought something at Falksons). The SABC at the time had a medium wave transmitter site at Silverton with probably 10 kilowatts or so for each service. The antenna was a centre fed vertical lattice mast. Since the site was about four miles from Menlo Park where I lived reception was excellent. Choice of service was English or Afrikaans, or the wondrous Springbok Radio. Good days one way and another! [/QUOTE]
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