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I'd say that's a good one to grab. I think the AVM line was their high end series.
I've always been impressed with the quality of Sanyo TV's. Even the ones made in the past few years seem to be good quality for the money. Even the old 19" metal cabinet Sanyo built Sears sets from the '70's would still give a good picture after 20-25 years of use. It's rare to find a bad CRT in a Sanyo set. Most of the ones that I repair have the usual failures like bad vertical output IC's, shorted HOT's, power supply problems, etc.
The main thing I didn't like about mid '80's Sanyo's is that some of them had a weird vertical output module that consisted of surface mount parts. They were bad about having loose connections and were sometimes a pain to resolder. The other thing is that some of their early to mid '80's sets used an oddball horizontal output transistor. The collector terminal is the metal case on most HOT's. The ones used in these Sanyo/Sears sets had the base or emitter terminal (can't remember) as the case. There was no NTE cross reference to that part and the original was very expensive several years ago.
If I were to buy a new CRT set today, I'd probably get a Sanyo (that is, if they still make a CRT set).
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