Early mid-century radios sounded small, colored, and lacking in bass

Evidence

My memory of reproduced sound from my early years was that table radios sounded “small”, lacking bass, and rendering everything with easily audible colorations of various kinds. Large console radios in polished wood cabinets sounded “fuller” but also sometimes duller. In those days people sought “good tone”, and sounding “mellow” was a compliment. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 58

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Simple sine-like tones sound soft but lack power and feel dull at low pitches
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Simple sine-like tones sound soft but lack power and feel dull at low pitches