[citation needed] They are valued for their all-tube signal path and hand-wired circuit.
Many Webster-Chicago record changers were installed in Magnavox home entertainment systems in the 1940s and early 1950s.
They purchased the rights to produce recorders in 1945 from the Armour Research Foundation.
[1] Webster-Chicago simplified the design and developed a recorder that sold for only $150, half the price of competing models.
[4] In the 1960s the firm began to face strong competition from German and Japanese imports.