Ohm R-14 (Year Unknown)
A model number, a brand name, and almost nothing else. The R-14 is the kind of entry that keeps an archive honest.
Overview
Here is the entire verified record for the Ohm R-14. The brand is Ohm, the model is R-14, and the Archive lists it as "Year Unknown." That is not a summary of the research. That is the research. The source material says plainly that even the product type and the production years are unconfirmed. Nobody has established whether the R-14 was a receiver, an amplifier, a speaker, or something else. There is no specification sheet, no catalog listing, and no service data in the surviving record.
The one lead worth flagging is a 1966 print advertisement for a solid-state stereo receiver designated the AR-14, carried in High Fidelity (January 1966, p.33). It is a real period document with real numbers attached. But the designation differs from the Ohm R-14 by a single leading "A," no Ohm branding is visible in the surviving ad text, and the source that surfaced it notes the two "may or may not be the same model." The Archive flags the correspondence and does not assert it.
For completeness, and with the heaviest possible caveat: the AR-14 receiver in that advertisement was billed at 10 watts continuous per channel (20 watts total) with 15 watts per channel of IHF music power, a 4-to-16-ohm speaker output, a damping factor of 50, and hum-and-noise figures of −60 dB on phono and −63 dB on auxiliary, all for $99.95. Those are advertised specifications for a differently named model, unconfirmed for the Ohm R-14. They belong to a lead, not to this page's subject. Anyone who wants to argue the R-14 and the AR-14 are the same product needs a catalog page, a service manual, or a shipping carton with both names on it. None of those has surfaced.
What the Archive can say with confidence is narrow: the Ohm name attaches to the model number in the listing record, and nothing beyond that has been independently confirmed in the source text. No dimensions, no weight, no circuit topology, no driver complement, no original price, no owner reports, no known failure modes. The R-14 sits in the same category as the Archive's other thin Ohm entries, a placeholder held open in case a brochure or a repair ticket turns up.
If an Ohm R-14 is sitting in a closet, a storage unit, or the back room of a shop that serviced this gear decades ago, the Archive would welcome the evidence. A photograph of the rear panel, a serial plate, or a page from a dealer's catalog would do. Until then, this page stays short.
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