Grundig 225 (1958–1959)
The Grundig 225 is a compact table tube radio. It was built for just two years, 1958 to 1959, and sold at an original price of 198 DM. It's a straightforward three-band set - FM, MW, and LW. The tube lineup is modest: an ECC85, an ECH81, and an ECL86, with an EZ80 rectifier in the power supply. The single 17 cm speaker sits in a cabinet measuring 380 x 235 x 155 mm, and the whole thing weighs 4 kg. It runs on AC mains, accepting 110-127 or 220-240 volts, which suggests it was aimed at a fairly broad European market.
As far as the record shows, this was an unpretentious entry-level table radio. The FM band covers 87.5 to 100 MHz, MW spans 515 to 1620 kHz, and LW 150 to 285 kHz. The intermediate frequencies are 10.7 MHz for FM and 460 kHz for MW/LW. Grundig backed it with a two-year guarantee, which was a notable selling point for a budget set of the era.
Documentation on the 225 is thin beyond these basics. No frequency response, distortion, or sensitivity figures survive in the sources, and there's no record of how it compared sonically to contemporaries. Period publications occasionally featured high-end amplifiers and turntables in their pages, as seen in Amateur Tape Recorder (July 1965, p.36) and Studio Sound (January 1970, p.3). One archive lists its status as "in collection," so it's a collector's item today, but no current market price is documented.
- Bands: FM, MW, LW
- Tubes: ECC85, ECH81, ECL86, EZ80
- Speaker: 1x 17 cm
- Dimensions: 380 x 235 x 155 mm
- Weight: 4 kg
- Original price: 198 DM
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