O Frabjuous Day ! Callooh Callay !

[Phil Nelson]

It's a creature of its time.

If I had the room -- lotsa room -- and the spare cash, I'd buy one in a microsecond for my wife, who goes insane for Jetson's style stuff and considers my cathedral & tombstone radios, 1940s TVs, etc., a bunch of boring brown rectangles.

Lucky for me, we don't have room for a Komet unless we sacrifice something like her piano or dining room set :-)

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[dtuomi]

I like it. I would have it, but its too large. Big enough so that it could have the house, and I would have to go live in the car.

David

[fujifrontier]

meh

[Justen]

It would look very cool in my living room!

[Sandy G]

That thing fairly SCREAMS "Gee, Mr Wizard, it's 1960 !" One would expect to see "Route 66" on the TV, "Walk-Don't Run" on the radio or record player, & one of those heroic Virgil Exner Mopar finmobiles in front of the home w/the "butterfly" roof on it..Yes, the Sixties are gonna be great...

[Bobby Brady]

[QUOTE=Phil Nelson]It's a creature of its time.
QUOTE]
Were they sold in America when new? I suspect they would not have been popular here at all. The styling is way "over the top " and looks like what I would expect from a cold hearted German designer.
Please don't take that the wrong way as I have a little German blood myself!

I have thought that I might like it for a little while if the sound is great but it seems like most people would think I'm some wierdo if I said I like it.

Our American sets were more like real Jetson's style where as this Kuba Komet seems more like something Dr. Evil's mother in-law would have loved.

[Sandy G]

..Or the Concentration Camp Kommandant who surreptiously decamped to South America, had duelling scars on his cheek, wore a perpetual scowl & shaved head, & a monocle...Think Oscar Beregi or Otto Preminger...<grin>

[Steve McVoy]

These sets were sold only in Germany, but there are at least 4 of them in North America. Here is ours:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/kuba.html

There is a link on that page to the Kuba museum in Germany, and to a 1959 brochure with all of Kuba's sets.

[Sandy G]

Too bad they didn't enter into some sort of deal w/RCA, & had a CTC-7 chassis in there, instead of the B&W set...Now, THAT would have been Too Kewl....

[Bobby Brady]

for me!

[fujifrontier]

no, it would be very scary

[Einar72]

My OL thinks it's way cool, being mostly German herself...

I'd use it to play Otto Klemperer LP's, while on the TV section watching his son get called an idiot by general Burkhalter...

But first I'd push some stuff outta the window, too...

1. Fake Predictas
2. Fake Crosley dashboard radios
3. Fake Corvette Wonderbar radios
(all available on eBay)

I'll gladly catch any R-390's & G-2000's as they fall; now THAT'S gonna bruise!

Bei Mir bist du schon, Kuba Komet!

BTW, I wonder if the seller will offer free removal of the "aroma of Tacoma"?

[Sandy G]

Oh, y'all know I'd give my right nut for one of these things, but as Richard Pryor would have said, "I'll talk about his ass for 44 years..." It is kinda fun making light of them. I can't imagine there are many of these Wunderkinds left anywhere, either here or in Germany. They were expensive to begin with in an era when Germany was not quite the rich country it is today; They ARE nigh on to 50 years old; and let's face it, they are a bit difficult to love in the same way an Admiral Bakelite 7" or a Sony 5-303 is. They're just too, well, "different"...Nobody would EVER call one of 'em "cute".

[Bobby Brady]

I agree with Sandy.