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Stereo ?

I am a electronics tech and I can repair / restore but designing is above my pay grade. However a good friend is a retired engineer that is 94 and still hitting on all 8 cylinders. I just picked up a beam of light Philharmonic with two power supply/ amps and the converter to receive the 88-108 band. I have a McIntosh MR66 that I use for AM dxing. It happens to have the outboard MPX decoder. My friend says that he can make my Philly stereo. Has anyone else done this?

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Permalink Reply by Robert Meader on Monday

I did this once about thirty years ago. I connected an external fisher MPX decoder to just before the de-emphasis circuit in the FM philharmonic and connected the right channel back to to the output of de-emphasis circuit and the left channel to the phono input of the second philharmonic. Viola got a nice sounding FM stereo with 1940's components and a 1965 MPX decoder! I ended up selling the second philharmonic and mpx decoder when I moved to present location. This happened long before smart phones so I never did a recording of how it sounded.