Here is something truly special, the full "Premiere" executive desk set that was sold at the end of 1956 (in time for the Christmas season). The radio contains a surplus Raytheon T-100 chassis, which Raytheon sold off when they exited the transistor radio market. The chassis has 4 black RCA plug in transistors, not Raytheon transistors as would have been in the chassis when Raytheon used it in their radios. Every part of this desk set (except arguably the radio chassis) is made from the highest quality materials. I don't know what this set sold for, but I doubt it would have cost less than $1500 in today's money (considering a Zenith 500 sold for $750 in today's money). I recapped this set and replaced a bad diode (that was a terrible thing to do, I know) to make it play. The desk set is not for sale, but I do have a second radio which I may sell, after I put the nicest parts on the one I plan to keep.

As a correction to what I said in the video, the Raytheon T-100 (which this set uses the chassis from) did not get poor rankings all the way across the board... it's speech intelligibility was judged "fair".

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