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Originally Posted by Einar72
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As for the old long combos, most people are too young to have ever had one, are too bigoted against American cars, etc, to want one in the first place, .....
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I am guessing that these were popular in their early-mid 60's heyday for the following reasons;
1. More room was taken by a separate HiFi AND a 21"-25" TV.
2. There was no second room in the house for just the TV alone.
3. Console HiFi was popular right after TV, but before separate components were preferred.
4.combo was a "new hifi and TV upgrade" without extra cost of separates.
5. Even better TV sound
I have had only two combos (10L60 Philco and Mag T933 color) amongst over 100 other sets. Sheer size and difficulty moving them made me regret having them. I would make room for the right one, such as a CTC15 RCA (a beauty in French Provincial red mahogany) I repaired one many moons ago for a neighbor. I went to her funeral, tactfully asking the daughter if it was still around.
of course not.
BTW; GISLAN - roughly translated from sanskrit: failure to understand operation of vacuum tubes (CAN BE CURED
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HUTYARB - much worse, is a failure to understand electricity because you cannot see it (see flat-earth society)