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Old 05-23-2014, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by rca2000 View Post
If we REALLY want to get honest with ourselves....then the flat-chassis SS Zenith sets we love--ALL of them...including the BW sets with plug-in boards--are actually a "hybrid" between hand-wiring and point-to point wiring, as more than half the circuitry, most of the low-level stuff--is on those boards and the power devices all plug in.
True, just no burnout-prone tubes to deal with. Also, the dura-modules are too small to flex from heat. The transition time was then, and Zenith did it best.
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