General Electric (GE) Model K-62 Floor-Standing Radio (1931)

General Electric (GE) Model K-62 Console Radio (1931)

The G-E Popular Console.

The General Electric model K-62, introduced in the summer of
1931, was referred to by G-E as their "Full-Range Popular
Console". The purchase price was $124.75, complete with tubes.

It was claimed that this was one of the G-E models to have
participated in a series of blind t one tests, attended by prominent
musicians of the day. Full-sized console radios from four well-
known manufacturers were hidden behind screens and voted on
for their tonal excellence. When the votes were counted, the G-E
model was claimed, in test after test, to be the winner.

...the choice of leading musical artists & symphony orchestras.

The K-62 is a 9-tube superheterodyne with cover-
age of the standard broadcast band. The tube line-
up is 235 (RF amp), 224 (1st-detector), 227 (LO),
235 (IF), 227 (AVC), 227 (2nd detector), 247*2
(push-pull output) and 80 (rectifier). The schematic
is the same as for the RCA model R-11.

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"Believe your own ears! Hear the General Electric
before you spend a penny for radio. In the first
minute you listen, you will understand why this great
G-E instrument won every tone test, why it is the one
radio for you. Here is glorious tone reality. It is like
looking at a vivid autumn landscape, after viewing it
in a black and white photograph!"

The K-62 offered the following list of features, extracted from G-E
advertising,

A 9-tube deluxe screen-grid superheterodyne
new, exclusive G-E tone equalizer counteracts
effects of cabinet resonance, preserving tone
fidelity of dynamic speaker
Two pentode output tubes.
Automatic Volume Control.
special phonograph terminals
chassis cushioned in rubber
Superb brown walnut cabinet with rich-grained
butt-walnut overlays

Oct 1931