Fisher D-393
A name that surfaces like a half-remembered dream in a forum post—more ghost than gear, but someone out there swore they saw it.
Overview
The Fisher D-393 exists in the hazy borderland between catalog and myth. It’s listed in the VTA Brand Index under Fisher’s speaker lineup, and a single vintage audio forum thread references it as the "Fisher D-393 Diplomat console"—a name that sounds like it belongs in a walnut-clad listening room, not a spreadsheet of forgotten models. But that’s where the trail ends. No brochures, no schematics, no ads, no user manuals. Just a name, a year loosely tied to a forum post title, and silence.
It’s possible the D-393 was a short-run console speaker system, the kind Fisher occasionally packaged with their tuners and amps in the late 1960s. The "Diplomat" name hints at that—Fisher loved dignified titles for their furniture-grade systems. But without dimensions, driver configuration, impedance, or power handling, it’s impossible to say whether it was a bookshelf oddity, a floor-standing experiment, or just a prototype that never made it past the drawing board. The fact sheet confirms only its existence as a listed model under "Speakers" and the forum-reported name. Nothing more.
And then there’s the year. The fact sheet notes that "1968" appears only in a forum thread title, not as a confirmed production date. That’s a red flag for collectors. It could be accurate, or it could be a guess by someone decades removed from the original release.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Fisher Radio Corporation |
| Model | D-393 Diplomat console |
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