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The tube looked a bit low at first but it was only due to a dirty red screen control trimpot on the CRT socket board (it was so gunked up it no longer adjusted anything so i assumed the CRT was shot at first), some repeated squirts of contact cleaner finally fixed it.
Italian manufacturers made some nice sets in the B/W tube era (50s and 60s) and even a few good color sets in the late 60s for export markets (Geloso and Phonola) before they began to cheap out in the 70s (but some, like Mivar, continued to make good sets)
There's only one problem with old Italian sets: they rarely had power transformers, so hot chassis sets are the norm here, this makes very difficult if not impossible to add AV inputs and continue to use them in the DTV era (our STBs rarely have RF outputs)
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