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Originally Posted by Chad Hauris
I found one of these outside dumped in a field! The phono and radio still work very well but the CRT was broken. The TV likely would have worked if the CRT were still intact. The Allegro sound system tuner in these is good at picking up weak radio stations.
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Chad, I wish the newer stereos were as good. I have an Aiwa 200-watt bookshelf system with a digital tuner that doesn't work well at all here in my small town, 35 miles east of Cleveland--at least not without an external antenna. I have to use a Terk "tower" antenna with it (without the amplifier, which just amplifies noise on already weak signals) to get most Cleveland stations in stereo. I don't care that much about the AM tuner (there isn't that much worth listening to on AM these days anyhow), but I do wish Aiwa would have paid a lot more attention to the FM tuners in these systems. If I still lived in the suburbs (and had an analog Zenith Allegro stereo system, which in fact I did for seventeen years), I probably wouldn't have noticed the drop in sensitivity, but where I live now, in east-central Lake County, is right at the far edge of the coverage areas of most Cleveland FMs. Not really a fringe area, but close enough to it to show up sensitivity differences in tuners.