Radios and receivers have a lot in common. Both have amps, tuners, and pre-amps. IMO, radios evolved into receivers when inputs for AUX, TAPE, and PHONO were added.

What is the first receiver and when did it come out?

ok, i give.

I had a Realist amp and Tuner that was made in 53. They became realistic the radio shack.

I'm curious also as to what was the first one. I came along much later and my first receiver was a Fisher 500T. It was their first SS receiver. I bought it in 1966.

This info is from former AK member Vintagestereo. He thinks the first receiver was the H/K D-1000 Festival.

Here is a Scott from 1960



http://hhscott.com/receiver.htm

Jim

i sold mine to a guy in china. it was a tube.

My first kind of Reciever was this one:



From 1953.

"dolph"

(i resized it so its easier to view, the original available via the thumbnail. hope you dont mind)

cool unit! it looks like it brought in every band available during that era.

Thank you so much for your help resizing the pic.

It was a great radio and the quality of sound was great too.

I had a Garrad 401 connected back then.

The radio/amp had 8 tubes.

I wish I had kept it.

"dolph"

I love these old radios.

Saba made some awesome gear.

I have a RCA Radio that has a matching phono it dates to about 1950-52 since a TT was pretty much the only source As consumer R2R wasn't around much in the early 50's I guess it would have to be a pretty early receiver.





Here is the matching TT



The radio is the same model my grandfather used to listen to his preachers on but my cousin ended up with his so I search ebay and bought this one. It works perfectly. I assume my cousin got the matching TT.

I should get around to buying one. But then Grandpa never listened to music so I'm not in a hurry.