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For me a lot of it is the ability to tinker with them, to improve them-and there is always room for some tinkering with these sets. Personally I would rather find a set that needed work than one that was perfect. A great satisfaction from bringing one back to life.
I don't know what it is but there is something about the color on these old tube sets that is missing on modern ones. Warmth? Just the fascination that it works at all? Hardly anything on tv worth my time these days, but if I turn on my CTC-11 my eyes are glued, even if the show is no good.
Character is also a large part of it. Every set, pretty much, through the 70s had some character to it's design. Thinking about it, TV design got boring around the time car design did.
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Bryan
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