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It's really not over engineered. Take a look at any RCA or Admiral from the same year and they're pretty much the same. What you experienced were sets with inter-carrier sound where both video and audio go through a common IF. The audio is picked off after the detector and a trap keeps it out of the final video stage.
This set uses a separate IF for video and audio like many sets of the late 40s - early 50s. Here the audio trap is right after the tuner and two are amplified independently.
The reason I had so much trouble with aligning the set was bad mica caps and damaged video IF transformers. I wish I could have replaced them, but spare parts are hard to come by these days.
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