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.

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Before the second world war Radio was a revolution in mass-communication much like the internet today. Fortunes were made and lost, empires built, epic patent battles ensued, all of which resulted in ...

The ad for the antique radio would break many collectors’ hearts. It touted a Majestic Model 92, a floor-standing console made in Chicago in 1929, which featured still-gorgeous walnut veneer and ...

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their radios, the glow of the dial matched by the glow of unforgettable voices. From ...

They were the Walkmans of the 1950s-the coolest things ever to fit into Ban-Lon shirt pockets: snazzy transistor radios. Now these vintage examples of midcentury technology, which typically cost $30 ...

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 ...

There is something about old radios. They evoke a bygone time when families would gather in the living room to listen to (and visualize in their minds) the latest news, comedies and on-air dramas.

I inherited my grandpa’s old console radio because no one else wanted it. It hadn’t worked for decades. It was slightly beat-up, and somewhat large and heavy. Think NFL player. Well, that’s ...

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 ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Vintage car owners take note: Barry Dalton is among a dying breed of people who repair original radios for cars built before the 1970s. Look in Hemmings Motor News, and you'll ...