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yea its a sweet chassis, its amazing to think of the hand wiring that went into that set AND the fact that it was done here in the the USA.
The only thing I dont like about it is the dumb soundess contour built into the volume pot. Kills the highs rather than pumping the lows, at least until you crank it up. I would love to just disable that tap but I respect the thing to much to start re engineering it.
I may check some of the componets in that area to see if anything has drifted making it worse that it is.
You are rigth about it in comparison to the maggie (the only other SS tuner I have), it has better sensitivity, and very low distortion at higher power settings. I seems to have a decent PS for an early SS unit.
I need to seset the opt transistors, the heat sink paste is all crumbly but at least those expensive PNP outputs are good.
there is a slight hum that is not present on the ebay find so I will need to go thru the caps. Funny how one set has bad caps and the other does not. I think it has something to do with the storage enviroment, maybe the useage as well. The Ebay find was pefect, but for a slight bend in the tuning shaft. I dont know how that could get bent and not break the tuning knob. It has a slight over center feel as you turn it, Not a big deal but just enough to bug me. The tuner that came in the TV console has a perfect tuner shaft.
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