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Old 12-17-2012, 11:18 AM
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REAL TVs have TUBES!
 
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In my experience, the TVs of the 50s had good bass, but poor overall accuracy (especially in music). In the 60s, they were worse; even in some of the big TV-stereo-phono consoles, where the TV would have it's own 5" oval speaker and not even pump the TV sound through the stereo... A few of the late 50s and early 60s Zenith consoles had decent sound, and even bass & treble controls on a few of the very high-end B&W consoles.

Best TV sound IMHO, is the early-mid '80s Sony consoles (KV-2675, etc). Those had great sealed speaker boxes, and well-engineered sound.

Charles
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