TS 45 receiver

The braun TS 45 Recei­ver was deve­lo­ped in 1965 by Dieter Rams and has an ampli­fier sec­tion with inputs for tape and a turn­ta­ble and a radio recei­ver for seve­ral bands. Short­wa­ve, Medi­um­wa­ve and Longwa­ve are accom­pa­nied by a fm ste­reo sec­tion. When con­nec­ted to an anten­na, the qua­li­ty of the radio recep­ti­on is gre­at. The­re is a field inten­si­ty dis­play and a ste­reo indi­ca­tor lamp, which give the FM sec­tion a com­ple­te look. The TS 45 is equip­ped with sus­pen­si­on devices for wall moun­ting and is tech­ni­cal­ly abso­lut­e­ly iden­ti­cal in con­s­truc­tion to the audio 2 com­pact sys­tem also laun­ched in 1965. The TS 45 was sold for 1,245.00 Deutsche Mark. The ampli­fier power is 2 x 15 watts (sine 2 x 25 watt).

TG 60 reel-to-reel tape recorder

The braun TG 60 tape recor­der was desi­gned by Dieter Rams in 1965. The tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­ti­on of the requi­re­ments was car­ri­ed out by the engi­neer Wolf­gang Has­sel­bach. Equip­ped with 3 Pabst elec­tric motors, the reel-to-reel machi­ne can be ope­ra­ted easi­ly, quick­ly and relia­bly. The TG 60 is spe­ci­al­ly cali­bra­ted for the Braun (BASF) TB 631 tape. The 18 cm reel can play back about 45 minu­tes of ste­reo recor­dings at a speed of 19cm/s. Three sepa­ra­te half-track heads for era­sing, recor­ding and play­back allow back-tape con­trol of the recor­ding, as it was only com­mon in high­ly pro­fes­sio­nal stu­dio tape recor­ders from Revox and Stu­der at that time. The TG 60 was a per­fect match for the TS 45 and the L 450 loud­spea­k­ers. The retail pri­ce in 1965 was quite a proud 1,995.00 Ger­man marks. May­be that’s why only a total of 500 units were produced.

L 450 speaker

The Braun L 450 spea­k­ers are the ori­gi­nal models for the legen­da­ry wall-moun­ted sys­tem. The­se spea­k­ers were spe­ci­al­ly desi­gned in 1965 to match the TS 45 and the Audio 2 com­pact sys­tem. They were made in white, gra­phi­te and wal­nut veneer. They are equip­ped with a 5,1 inch woo­fer and a 1,3 inch high ran­ge loud­spea­k­er, tran­si­ti­on fre­quen­cy at 2,600 Hz, power rating 20 watt at 4 ohm, the fre­quen­cy ran­ge goes from 35–25000 Hz, size w 18,5 x h 9,8 x d 4,1 inches. The­se wall spea­k­ers were sold at that time per pie­ce for 298,- Ger­man Mark. From 1969, the spea­k­er model L 470 repla­ced the L 450. The L 470 was pro­vi­ded with a dome for the high-fre­quen­cy ran­ge and other­wi­se the same dimen­si­ons and can the­r­e­fo­re also be used abso­lut­e­ly sui­ta­ble in the Braun ste­reo wall system.

PCS 5 turntable

The ori­gi­nal braun turn­ta­ble model PCS 5 is an impres­si­ve pie­ce of craft­sman­ship. The tone­arm has ela­bo­ra­te adjus­t­ment opti­ons for per­fect record play­back com­fort and was equip­ped with a tone­arm lift for manu­al ope­ra­ti­on. A Shu­re pick­up was used in the tone head at the fac­to­ry, and its need­les can still be reor­de­red today. Tech­ni­cal main­ten­an­ce in a qua­li­fied work­shop ensu­res that the PCS 5 turn­ta­ble will func­tion as it did on the first day, and will con­ti­nue to do so for deca­des to come. This record play­er was sold from 1965 for 658,- Ger­man Mark.