How rare are Sony sets made by admiral?

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Originally Posted by zeno

Back in the 70's I did a stretch of hard time at Sony factory service
in Westwood Mass. I saw a few of these. They were converted to monitors.
The interface board was US made but not by Admiral IMHO. The thing
I never understood was why they chose Admiral over Zenith or RCA
far better products in all respects. Must have been $$$. When it came
out Trinitrons didnt come above 12 inch so if you need a bigger monitor
you had to relabel something else. A rare sets but not of value IMHO.
A curiosity for us oldies.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

That Admiral is monochrome. I Own the admiral badged version of it with a IIRC slightly different AV input jack pack.
It doesn't surprise me much that the input pannel is not made by Admiral...I also own a 1967 color Admiral console with factory remote and the remote and reciever chassis for it are both made in Japan.
These sets were either companions to their early RTR VTRs or used to demonstrate them at trade shows.
For color Sony really stepped up the firm's they bought from in the pre-import Trinitron days....I have a 17" Setchell Carlson industrial modular tube color monitor (no tuner IF or sound provisions in it) with the Sony badge on it.