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Originally posted by veg-o-matic
That second Zenith looks exactly like the one I got from Doug! Mine's got the 24MC32 chassis, though.
And the sound kicks some serious butt! These new black plastic sets just can't compare.
Bob
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Bob, are you sure about that? The 24MC32 only has one speaker, a small oval unit. Unless you are referring to the 24MC32's audio channel, are running the sound output through a stereo outfit, or have retrofitted the set with a larger speaker, I don't quite follow you. I once had a Zenith 23" console with a single-ended 6BN6-6BQ5 audio system, tone control and a large speaker; this sounded so good I eventually patched an FM tuner into the audio (across the volume control, with blocking capacitors of course).
The prize for the set with the absolute
largest loudspeaker I ever saw, however, goes to a GE console I once saw here on AK which had an oval speaker some 12 inches in diameter; the magnet must have weighed five pounds as well.
Those sets must have had incredible bass response--enough to blow the roof off a house with the volume control not even at the halfway mark, and audio plenty good enough to listen to music or to feed an FM tuner's audio output through.
As to the sound quality of today's sets, you are right on the mark. Today's black plastic cube sets, all of which are manufactured offshore these days even though they may still bear American brand names such as GE and RCA (I understand Goldstar is not using the Zenith brand or logos on its televisions any longer), do not sound anywhere nearly as good, with their cheap speakers (the so-called "stereo" televisions are even worse in this regard; hardly worthy, IMO, of the extra circuitry required for MTS stereo) and low-fo audio channels, as the older sets with near-hifi audio and large speakers (in consoles; even the cheaper portables from the '60s and '70s, as well as today's 5" cheapies with AM/FM radio, had cheap transistor radio speakers, with sound channels to match).