New Philips Portable Radio

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 21, 5 December 1930, Unnumbered Page

New Philips Portable Radio

Masterpiece of Skill Astonishing Results A careful examination of the new Philips Portable Radioplayer only serves to confirm the writer’s unhesitating admiration called forth by his first cursory _ inspection of this new Philips product. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece of radio engineering genius. Such beauty of con-struction-inside and out; such compactness with freedom from interacting fields ; such extraordinary radio frequency amplification without distortion. The set, as it stands, is fitted with low consumption valves and batteries. This is, of course, an essential if true portability is to be achieved. The speaker is 2 balaneed armature type, and built into the eabinet, which rotates on an almost flush base pedestal, is a frame aerial of ingenious design. Connections are provided for an exter‘jor aerial, and also for a pick-up feed to the audio side of the amplifier, so that gramophone records can be electrically reproduced. Tuning is simplicity itself; monocontrol and direct logging make things easy for the novice, and all switching is entirely automatic, Considering the size of this machine and the effective area of its baffle, it has an extraordinary audio frequency compass with even response. A. further indication of the thoroughness behind the planning of this set is that a weatherproof cover is provided with the set to give protection to the cabinet when eonveyed from place to place. Of course, out of season, vacation times over, it is just as useful as, and considerably more beautiful than, many modern sets that we have seen. Resting on a record cabinet or side table, it will grace any room, its walnut housing designed to harmonise anywhere. Vitted now with some form of battery eliminator, and connected to an outside aerial, it will challenge results with any radio receiver on the market. The Philips people have been a long time in bringing out a portable outfit, and they haye fully justified their previous reluctance by the unqualified superiority of their final product. It is said that the Philips engineers have been working for several years on the design of this set. Having examined well and truly every inch of every component part, it ean truly be said that not for years has such an advance been made in the construction of sets for the everyday man who is not equipped with technical knowledge. Ideal Holiday Set It is safe to predict that very many of these Philips Portables are going to travel through New Zealand this summer. Beach, riverside, mountain and farmhouse can now awake to music that is really musical, and in a way that a year ago was quite impossible. Truly, Philips have produced nothing so amazing since they brought out the All-Wave Radio-player. Among a host of foreign radio receivers it is pleasant to see a British product towering head and shoulders above all.