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[radiotvnut]

IMHO, a properly working and adjusted Zenith color set from the '70's will blow the doors off of most CRT sets that are currently in production. About all I see in the way of new CRT sets are those cheap Chinese jobs that are geared towards people that can't afford several hundred $ and up for a flat panel set.

I think the best Zenith's were the horizontal solid state chassis sets (25DC56, 25EC58, etc), the 4-tube hybrid's, and the early ('74-'75) vertical chassis CCII sets. I'll agree that Zenith made the best CRT's during the '70's. Many were still strong despite being subject to "instant on" for 25 years!

Of course, RCA, Sylvania, Magnavox, and GE (yeah, GE did "mess up" and actually make a few color sets that produced a good picture) all made sets during the '70's that produced good pictures. The picture tubes used in the above mentioned sets usually didn't hold up as well as the Zenith tubes.