63 zenith color roundie find! - Videokarma.org TV - Video

59 chevy · #1 10-07-2022, 10:03 PM

My latest find a 63 zenith upright roundie. The talbot. It uses the 27KC20 chassis. I was able to talk to the original owner about it ! I replaced the doubler cap and all the bumble bee and wax caps. 20220903_140936.jpg

bandersen · #2 10-07-2022, 11:26 PM

Great find! It's a real beauty

Electronic M · #3 10-07-2022, 11:55 PM

That's a nice specimen. The K line is the only year Zenith color roundy I haven't owned or repaired yet.

AlanInSitges · #4 10-09-2022, 09:00 AM

Oh, man that's a quite a looker! How's the picture?

Username1 · #5 10-09-2022, 09:22 AM

That's a nice looking tv, and a nice clean cabinet, not too big,
and it even looks like a newer picture tube....
Keep that one....

Big Speakers down at the bottom...?
That would be a Big +

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Electronic M · #6 10-09-2022, 02:25 PM

If it does have big speakers at the bottom it'll have plenty of volume...Those Zenith's typically had SE 6BQ5 audio output stages, and will drive the stereo speakers in a combo set nicely...They were borderline overpowered for the mini-speakers that went below the tuner on the control panels of the metal cabinet sets and smallest consoles.

iong · #7 10-09-2022, 08:02 PM

Somehow I was never able to get nice picture on my 27KC20 Always looked like soft CRT no matter what tube I put in.

ARC Tech-109 · #8 10-10-2022, 06:11 AM

Ohh yeah that's a sweet find regardless of the speakers

trinescope · #9 10-11-2022, 03:37 PM

I need to get on the ball and get my 27KC20Q finished. It's working, but I need to tweak the chroma alignment to get the demodulation angles correct, then try my best to get the cabinet looking better than it does now.

Jeffhs · #10 12-17-2022, 09:29 PM

I wish today's flat-screen HDTVs had their speakers mounted as the older Zeniths, not to mention other 1950s-'80s consoles had (below the CRT). (I had a 23" Zenith b&w TV in the early 1970s, with a large 6x9 oval speaker directly below the CRT; the sound was so good I eventually patched an FM radio tuner into the TV's audio system, across the volume control.)

As it is now, the speakers on just about all flat-screen HDTVs, including my 32" Insignia, are mounted so that they project sound downward, rather than directly to the viewer's ears. I find this very annoying with my set, as it means I must increase the volume much higher than normal to be able to hear the sound as it should be heard. I am all but totally deaf in one ear due to a brain injury at birth; I can hear in the one good ear (my left), but it certainly isn't the same as if my hearing were normal in both ears.

I am presently using a pair of wireless headphones to work around this problem; they work very well, as I expected. I wouldn't be concerned about this at all except for the fact that I live in an apartment building, and must be very careful how loud I set my TV sound. The wireless headphones seem to have solved the problem, allowing me to turn up the volume as loud as I need to with no concerns about disturbing my neighbors.

BTW, the wireless headphones have one huge advantage over the TV's own speakers in that the sound is much clearer through the headphones. For that reason, I would have gotten the wireless headphones I have now even if my hearing were normal in both ears.