New Find: Brunswick Panatrope 3KR0

[gramophone-georg]

The radio has to work.... mostly. The amplifier section of the radio is what the phonograph plays through, so that has to work. If there's something wrong with the tuner section of the radio then it probably wouldn't matter for the phonograph.

As for the radio, it's essentially an RCA Radiola 60, (by the looks of it anyway), those are not so rare to find.

It is a modified Radiola 18. The modification consists of tap in the 1st audio interstage transformer. This steps up the signal from the pick-up. If this is open it is a hard part to find.

Could a modern preamp be integrated somehow?

[Phototone]

The radio has to work.... mostly. The amplifier section of the radio is what the phonograph plays through, so that has to work. If there's something wrong with the tuner section of the radio then it probably wouldn't matter for the phonograph.

As for the radio, it's essentially an RCA Radiola 60, (by the looks of it anyway), those are not so rare to find.

It is a modified Radiola 18. The modification consists of tap in the 1st audio interstage transformer. This steps up the signal from the pick-up. If this is open it is a hard part to find.

Could a modern preamp be integrated somehow?

The horseshoe-magnet pickup produces a very strong signal, it does not use a preamp stage. If you want to use the pickup (assuming it is working) on a modern amp, you go directly into the line input (tape, tuner, etc.) of an amp. As it stands, on your unit, the radio and power supply chassis need to be working to play thru the speaker in the unit.