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Comment by Norman S Braithwaite on December 18, 2015 at 10:40am

To my knowledge all Metropolitan cabinets were side-by-side with a phonograph but at least one common cabinet was a little taller than it was wide.

Norman

Comment by Dave on December 18, 2015 at 10:13am

Thank you Norm. I assume the Met cabinets were all long consoles with phonographs ?
I might just "modify" a donor cabinet of "radio" proportions .

Comment by Norman S Braithwaite on December 18, 2015 at 10:03am

The Metropolitan 16A chassis were all built into cabinets.  They did not have separate or removable face plates.  The single tuning eye was standard for multi-band receivers.  The better question is why did the 800B have two tuning eyes?  The Metropolitan 16A is a much better sounding receiver than the 800B primarily due to a funky tone control circuit employed by the 800B.  A tone circuit modification to improve the audio quality of the 800B can be found on this site but even with the modification the Metropolitan 16A is a better sounding receiver.

Norman

Comment by Dave on December 18, 2015 at 9:32am

Was this Metropolitan fitted with a wooden "dash" such as the 800b ? Or, were they built into a cabinet ?
Look similar but I understand the Met had a more robust output tranny. How do they compare sonically and why only the single tuning eye ?