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Originally Posted by zenith2134
What I don't understand is why CM chose to cheap out the cabinets...and yours has an NEC chassis? I thought their motto was "the best and darn well worth it" or something. So, as early as '74 they were outsourcing their chassis and using particleboard? Sounds like the worst to me!
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I think NEC built most, if not all, of CM's solid state color sets. What's funny is you may find the same NEC chassis in a cheap TG&Y store brand set. Of course, the TG&Y sets were much cheaper than the CM's. The CRT's didn't hold up very well, either. The '74 that I junked used a 23V delta gun westinghouse tube and it was toast and would not rejuvenate. The newer ones used an inline tube and they also would short and lose emission. IMHO, a Zenith chromacolor II, an RCA XL-100, or a Sylvania GTmatic would run circles around a CM solid state set, both in build quality and performance. Oh, and the stereos in their SS combos were nothing to write home about, either. They were about the same quality as a Lloyds, Yorx, etc. The turntables were usually cheap BSR's or Glenburn's. The later models had cheap plastic belt driven TT's.
I've seen one CM tube type color set from the '60's and it used an RCA clone chassis. IIRC, the cabinet was real wood.