In 1883 AEG “Allegemaine Electricitats Gesellschaft “ ( General Company of Electricity ) was born thanks to Emil Rathenau, an engineer from Berlin. He bought Edison’s lightbulb license and started to commercialize it in Germany through his company “Deutsche Edison Gesellschaft” (OEG)( German Edison Company .
In 1887 AEG presented the first electrical appliances during a World Exhibition; an iron kettle and curling tongs.
AEG became the most important electrical producer in Germany.
In 1903 AEG together with Siemans A.G founded Telefunken. The idea was to transform Telefunken into the first technology company with video - radio – electrical and military skills in Germany.
In 1907 AEG hired the architect and designer Peter Behrens as industrial engineer.
In 1911 Kaiser Guglielmo sent Telefunken’s engineers in West Sayville (New York) to build a radio tower 180 metres high. A similar tower was erected in Nauen ( Germany), creating the unique wireless communication network between North America and Europe. During construction of the tower in New York the German employees were forbidden access to the American employees in the work area.
In 1912 AEG produced the “famous Dandy” hoover and from that moment, dominated the German market with constant innovation to equip the home and professional environment.

Today, AEG belongs to the Electrolux Group.

Two front speakers emission behaviour

Each of the two front speakers has a fairly wide angle of emission.
Standing in front of the radio, centrally located, the output areas of the two loudspeakers intersect.
In monophonic listening, the acoustic feeling is to hear from a single central speaker.
But being two, the emission surface is very high, producing the same sound impact as a large woofer.
At the same time, the two front speakers, having smaller and lighter membranes and reels than a single large woofer, so they are much faster.
The low frequencies are therefore more ready and tail-free, and the range in the high frequencies is very extensive.
An expensive but highly performing choice.

The tone control system is very efficient. Above the large tone control knobs there is a band that lights up gradually indicating the emphasis on the band on which it acts.

Klangregister, sound registers, are buttons that introduce the prearranged equalization curves. They are divided into two groups, on the right and on the left of the button range selection.

Bass: emphasizes the low loudness
Solo: introduces the medium loudness
Intimi : reduces the high notes
Jazz: enhances the high notes

Inside the cabinet there is a dipole for FM reception and a ferrite rotating aerial for AM reception.
Ferrite aerial can be rotated from the outside to achieve a perfect tuning of the device in the AM.
In this picture see the rotation mechanism and the position indicator of the aerial.
The reception sensitivity with internal aerials is very good. This unit was in fact produced in a period when there were not many radio stations and those available fairly apart from each others.
Using an external aerial sensitivity is further increased.

The tuning system is another gem.
The unit is equipped with mechanisms for keeping separate the AM and FM bands.
The movement is transferred to both mechanisms with a system of pulleys and separated gears.

This an exclusive feature of this device, the Automatic Frequency Control (AFC) that excludes itself automatically.

The mechanism works like this:
To tune into any FM station it is necessary to rotate the biggest knob, the one with the silver edge.
To rotate it, just press on the white small pipe the AFC, via the internal contacts of the knob, then it is possible to tune into all the stations with both the strongest and weakest signal.

As soon as you release the knob, through the same contacts, the AFC automatically inserts itself and the station is engaged at the maximum power.
Other devices do not appear to use this system. Too much expensive I suppose!

The magic eye has of course been replaced.

On the left there is the volume command (with the incorporated loudness) and axially to this, the balance command.
The Magic Eye indicates the perfect tuning each station.
The AM band for the long, medium short waves and FM band.

Below from the left, there are in order the bass knob, the Bass and Solo buttons, powering off, Stereo Record Player, Mono Record Player, buttons for tuning in long, medium and short waves, FM buttons, Intim and Jazz. At the end the check high notes knob.
Under each button is shown the frequency band.
Finally, there is the tuning knob, coaxial AM and FM, which makes the movement pleasant because it is supported by a two fly- wheel.

Output for external speakers.
Socket for recorder (tonbandgerat).
Turntable input (Tonabnehmer)
AM and FM aerial inputs and ground socket.