Dear Massimo,
I hope you are keeping well. I’ve noted there will be an in-person meeting at your place, apparently the first time after the pre-pandemic times. Exciting! Wish I could attend!
I’m putting together a list of more detailed questions to you with regard to my (ever-pleasant, thanks to you) Grundig experience — I hope you do not mind that and also, if you prefer, I’m happy to post some of these on your forum (but that will have to be in English) rather than via e-mail.
In the meantime I’ve a couple of very quick ones re: our used market.
I can see these items for sale, I’ve never seen them before so they must be very rare:
1) R100 receiver https://www.avito.ru/moskovskaya_oblast_krasnogorsk/audio_i_video/resiver_grundig_r_100_2713130050?utm_campaign=native&utm_medium=item_page_ios&utm_source=soc_sharing
I like the aesthetics, it looks like one of those “compacts” but without the turntable.
2) RC60 receiver with a tape deck incorporated. Very beautiful, in my view. The ad says the deck can’t play (only rewind and fast forward)
https://www.avito.ru/chernoe/audio_i_video/resiver_grundig_rc60_2390609643?utm_campaign=native&utm_medium=item_page_ios&utm_source=soc_sharing
3) Minerva HA-200 amp and HT-200 tuner https://www.avito.ru/kaliningrad/audio_i_video/minerva_ha-200_ht-200_usilitel_tyuner_2330065638?utm_campaign=native&utm_medium=item_page_ios&utm_source=soc_sharing
Question is simple: are the above devices full CCI and recommendable? In the case of RC60, is the deck easily repairable (and how easy is it to ruin CCI if only the deck is repaired and not anything else?)? In the case of Minerva, to which of the Grundig devices are these equivalent or closest?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards
Boris xxxxxxxx
Dear Boris,
I recommend both the RC60 and the R100 as they are both excellent (and rare) full CCIs. I don’t recommend the Minervas you posted which are not CCI models. It’s hard to say how influential the repair can be….it all depends on the foresight of the repairer…often those who have never repaired those Grundigs of the time manage to do damage just by taking them apart. I advise you to look for (hopefully it still exists) who assisted Grundig in Moscow in the 70s/80s.
For any curiosity, post on the forum in English and you will be answered in English.
Best Regards
Massimo