Retrotech: My "Shed Radio" - The Philips 425

[@cydile]

For some reason I can't get enough of your voice, and it's not just the accent or sound of it, it's the way you express yourself and how your passion shines through even though the subject may seem a bit mundane at first glance. I never thought I'd be interested in the history of a radio and the importance of sheds and garages, yet here I am, at the end of the video and still intrigued. In fact, it's my third video in a row and I will stay around for more. Please keep making videos like this, I'll be waiting for more!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you Maia so much for your kind words! I'm a fast talker with plenty of mispronunciations but it seems to keep people's attention! I actually work at a whisky Distillery as a tour guide & video maker there, so if anyone ever needs to hear more from me I can always be found there!

[@stevezodiac575]

Same here, but this was my second video. On to my third now!

[@mbgames73]

I’m rocking the 1970’s radio called THE PARTY BOY in my kitchen., A 1980’s black Panasonic sound system in the front room (audio sounds amazing) and a 70’s radiogram Ferguson 3367. All have a lovely deep, warm sound and tone and a romantic glow that is hard to it into words. Usually out lasts modern tat.

[@3067jon]

One of the best KZbin content creators - you come from a place of real passion for what you do.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thanks Jon! It's good fun being able to make little videos now and then on things that interest me and have a wee audience who are willing to watch!

[@4pickets]

Well done Calum! Love your videos! Reminds me of the old radios I have in my work shop and garages. Both purchased in the late 80s and still providing listening pleasure to this day.

[@Dude_1864]

I remember "watching" Michigan University football in my Dad's garage on a 12 in screen tube TV. When you first turned it on the image would be a 16th of an inch tall horizontally but as it warmed up slowly the image would get larger. The sound always worked flawlessly from the get go, so in a way that shaped my on going love for radio vs TV sports broadcasts.

[@justinpipes85]

In America we call that "musical note slider" tone. I'm not sure if its different around the world. My dad has had the same clock/radio from the early 80s in his garage/work shop my entire life. It still works. It's been flashing 12:00 for probably the entire two and half decades it's been in that same exact spot on the same exact shelf.

[@stephendoherty1275]

My old shed radio was a Philips Boom Box with BASS BOOST! It had a cassette player as well. I had it plugged into the lighting, so when the lights were on, I was Rock'n it!

[@JoeMcGuire]

That connector would be one of the variety of DIN connectors and is also used for MIDI, and PC XT/AT keyboards. XLR is typically 3 pin.

[@rahimkvayath]

👍

[@TheEstampe]

Indeed, it's a DIN connector. DIN stands for Deutsches Institut für Normung, the German Institute for Standardisation.

[@flyinghedgehog3833]

Had this model way back then...yep Luxembourg/ Caroline... Dreaming of travelling the world...mission accomplished n ongoing ! Memories thanks

[@robertvarney1035]

Thanks!

[@dwaynezilla]

Sheesh, your production and presentation are really great. This is some good stuff!

[@dwaynezilla]

The audio and camerawork is top-notch. No wonder KZbin recommended it to me. Keep doing what you do because it's great!

[@tommypetraglia4688]

@@dwaynezilla I found his channel after some rude dude was trolling me so I clkd their channel to see what they were about and believe it or not they were 'scribed to Callum and for done reason I chkd him out and was pleasantly surprised by whst I found. My first of his was his history of nails. Interesting topics, nicely edited and produces and an intriquing fellar

[@zakarypalacios7687]

I have a 1930-40 radio that was basically just a shell that I used to put parts from a portable Bluetooth radio that had a completely dead battery in that I have in my house. For my garage I have a custom built stereo system system that I originally built around an old car stereo, some car speakers and a single hifi speaker. As time went on I’ve added various style of inputs into it, it first started off with the cassette player that was included on the car stereo which I used in conjunction with a cassette to 3.5mm adapter, I then added a CD player, the third thing added onto was an 8 track to play cassettes that I had found in the attic and I’m currently planning on adding a Bluetooth adapter to it

[@azaadkv3658]

Super sound good sound clarity.Power full gain .

[@coldfoot99]

I clearly remember my Dad had an RCA portable "tube" powered radio that could run on a couple large batteries. These batteries were not rechargeable but would last quite a while at normal volume. Dad was a "do it yourself" guy and he used it when working outside on the house or the the old Chevy. This was back in the 50's in Ohio, USA. I did a Google search and saw a few similar to the one he had.

[@CalumRaasay]

I love stories like that. Radios, walkmans etc are great because they really are imbued with the memories and experiences of the music and moments we experienced with them.

[@bgchal4662]

Love the channel. Hi from Arizona.

[@alfo6085]

Ah, "Crofter Craft, Love it! I've got a 1970 Grundig Satellit radio, hangs on a nail in the shed, rocking Isles FM 103🎶😊

[@CalumRaasay]

I used to get Isles on my old phone when I was out running after a shift working on the ferries. Ah nostalgia...

[@markedis5902]

Philips are Dutch and the connector is referred to as DIN. That socket is a 5pin DIN 180’. The slider is a tone control (agreed not a very good one)

[@RssutharJaisalmer]

Wow! Very nice Radio! 😯👌👆🙏

[@jamesbrierton4727]

I suspect that music note slider is really a balance between left track, right track, and balance (50/50). If you sample old Beatles song, there often have music on one track and vocals on another. You could essentially use a slider like that to add/remove voice or add/remove instruments.

[@gregornu]

I've got two 'old' Philips radios. One from a thrift shop, the Philips 970 but defective after a few months probably due to old capacitors. And a Philips 750 still working that I got from someone who didn't want it anymore.

[@aquos_fox]

You should have more views, your videos are very nice !

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you very much!

[@shandybrandy5407]

This Philips Skipper radio was just awesome. Still remember that it was quite powerful in the shortwave and had great sound too. Thanks for the video!

[@nline2blast722]

I have a 1983 Technics record player cobbled together with a 1990s Kenwood amplifier and a 2000s Era Sony sub woofer with a couple diffrent small speakers.. plays records, the Alexa plays through it among other devices through a plethora of jacks...

[@robdude1969]

I've got a terrible cold right now too... did the whiskey help?

[@CalumRaasay]

Whisky ALWAYS helps!

[@sweetdrreemz]

These videos are production quality professional stuff. Stunning, great stuff. Cheers. By my estimation you should have millions of followers. I feel like this stuff is on par with BBC docus or natgeo.

[@Rabblewitz]

Yes ... my wife's old boom box, used in her apartment some 30+ years ago, now sits in the Garage. Not that I use it much, but it's there should I want it.

[@pradeepkumarpanda7626]

In India it was available as Philips Skipper set without long wave. It was priced the same as a month's salary of a high level govt officer, but ironically own by well to do shopkeepers. As a transistor set it was wonderful, but lost its salt when IC circuits introduced.

[@Genivian]

Well I am currently watching this at 3:30am down with covid, 3 years later and wanting to research my grandfathers old radio sitting in my office when I am better. SO YES! IT WAS WORTH IT! also, any Whiskey recommendations for when you are sick?

[@CalumRaasay]

Ugh get well soon Muchael! I've always been a fan of black bottle for when I'm feeling under the weather, though a bit of Glenmorangie doesn't go amiss either!

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

holy crap my grandpa has one of those too, it sits on his showcase now

[@patloughner9551]

I Use have that exact same one.. When I was a kid my Grand Parents gave it to me. The only down fall is it didn't work.

[@barryrahn5957]

Those old electronic devices are great. Built like a tank and run forever. Hmm, what went wrong? The curse of planned obsolescence.. Cheers from Chicago!

[@andreasheld2362]

I was born in the mid Seventies (*sigh*) and I'm pretty sure my parents had one of those too.

[@CalumRaasay]

Getting to grow up in the 80s and 90s is no bad thing!

[@andreasheld2362]

@@CalumRaasay No, but it means I'm old AF 😄😄

[@speedynoak]

My Dad still has the same radio !

[@CalumRaasay]

A man of good taste!

[@rahimkvayath]

Its tone control next to volume slider, Multi holed connector is not xlr, its DIN mostly it has input and output contains in a single connector

[@san.5504]

to shri mahenderkumar+ sir if u have same philips models can u sell on eo me please reply

[@bendgrimes]

4:31 -- The symbol (a treble clef) indicates the function. That is what is called "treble" and the function is to adjust boost to different frequency ranges. All the way up (10) should offset the produced sound frequencies to favor treble, whereas the all the way down (0) is the reverse where bass is favored. 8:27 -- that lock of hair so near the spinning chuck is probably not a good idea...

[@CalumRaasay]

She's a daredevil ;) (and also bald now)

[@rahimkvayath]

@@CalumRaasay 😁🤣

[@101jumpit]

Its a tone control ,next to the volume control. :)

[@CalumRaasay]

Of course! Thanks for solving that mystery :)

[@tilburg8683]

To bad you had to record it twice but I'd say it was worth it.

[@CalumRaasay]

Glad to hear it!

[@glenngould7299]

Philips Taifun de Luxe 22RL425/22Z I bought one for 5 euro a few years ago not shure what it was i was buying. After listening i got rid of the other radios. Sound is really good/natural compared. I now own two (the other one was 40 euro or so on EBAY btw you can buy those on Ebay!) but FM signal is getting less strong were i live so i have to replace them with a FM/BAD/DAB+/streaming internet radio. Looking at Roberts Revival istream3.

[@Mahenderkumarrtk]

Nice radio my fvt I have 6 same radio indian philips model 15 rl 57_ 58

[@CalumRaasay]

Glad to find someone who still owns one! Not valuable, but certainly rare and interesting!

[@karanjadhav]

Nice sir

[@martientazelaar6733]

The speaker in this thing probably isn't half bad. So connecting that crappy vertical CD player to it as input (next video) isn't such a bad idea....

[@coscorrodrift]

"Can I borrow a feeling?" hhahaahah

[@dwaynezilla]

The preamble in this video is great!

[@georgepetrin1334]

The one thing missing is a picture of your grandfather.

[@robertvarney1035]

Hay you Scottish British Australians we Americans love and live in the work shop. Cheers

[@CalumRaasay]

Yeah but yours are probably 10x bigger! Haha

[@irshadhussainfarukhi4392]

Nice

[@antonia4722]

Its a 5 pin din socket! :o) xx

[@speckledjim_]

This would have been a "wireless" back in the day

[@jillatherton4660]

👍

[@viarnay]

Nice old radio but China build the best portable radios nowadays...😊

[@Suresh-zq7xw]

Hallo

[@TheOriginalMyocardia]

You don't sound as if you realize it, but these days, anyone who wants to be published can be published. See, decades ago, being published meant a fairly large investment by a publisher, since they had to both hire a company to print both the pages, and the cover that all hardbound books had back then, along with having to advertise it. Today, it never once needs to be anywhere close to paper, or bindings. It's this miraculous thing called digital. Books work as well as KZbin videos, in this new digital realm. You can self-publish through Amazon, if you don't know how to build your own website. If I sound as if I'm being a bit sarcastic, that's because I am. Self-publishing is extra-ordinarily easy, once one already has a website. Give it a shot. I'd be willing to bet it pays considerably better than making KZbin videos, at least for the average Yahoo, as they used to sometimes say (and without the capitalization, of course).

[@CalumRaasay]

TheOriginalMyocardia did put this comment on the wrong video...? Where did I mention wanting to publish a book...?

[@robs4988]

C'mon Calum. Are you just politically correct or maybe just henpecked? Why the silly comment about how your sister and gf use a shed as much as you do for tinkering? Try not to let this kind of girly nonsense creep into your videos.

[@CalumRaasay]

Hahaha shut up rob

[@zakarypalacios7687]

I have a 1930-40 radio that was basically just a shell that I used to put parts from a portable Bluetooth radio that had a completely dead battery in that I have in my house. For my garage I have a custom built stereo system system that I originally built around an old car stereo, some car speakers and a single hifi speaker. As time went on I’ve added various style of inputs into it, it first started off with the cassette player that was included on the car stereo which I used in conjunction with a cassette to 3.5mm adapter, I then added a CD player, the third thing added onto was an 8 track to play cassettes that I had found in the attic and I’m currently planning on adding a Bluetooth adapter to it.