You have summed it up nicely.
My experience is bad EFL's came in runs. IIRC M1970P was the
nice pecan wood 19" set. Had a lot of them with bad jugs
at 4 yrs. Probably a bad run for whatever reason. Other than
that I only remember a few that were a little weak. IMHO the
only jugs that may have been better in the 80's were RCA's.
73 Zeno
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Originally Posted by zenith2134
it is 2015, almost 2016. There is nothing wrong with the early system 3s and their tri-pot tubes. Saying they weren't as good as a Chromacolor tube isn't saying much, since nothing has the longevity of a 70s Zenith color tube.
All in all, The system 3 was a very nice set in the eighties.the CRTs are still largely healthy after 25 - 30 years +
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