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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. 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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I agree emphatically!
My System 3 is from 1989 and when properly adjusted produces a solid image with accurate colors. I do have to disclose that it has had the HV driver board replaced twice (Once in 1997 and again in 2004.) and I keep stock on hand of the diodes and resistors that cause the HV board to fail if/when it goes again.
The only thing that I wish it had was CC display/decoding. I believe Zenith rolled it out on all models sometime in 1991, well before the 1993 mandate.
The only
valid gripe for my set is that on many "cable channels" in the 90s, the majority of the commercials weren't in stereo but most of the programs were, and every time the stereo circuit toggled in/out there would be a brief hiss of static and a pop. This was especially annoying on the networks because during prime-time there were national commercials which could be stereo, and local insertion commercials which weren't. I didn't mind it so much, but it
really annoyed my mother, so I tended to leave it set to forced mono in the audio setting menu.
