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10-19-2004, 08:46 PM
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Chromacolor 2 Combo on eBay!
Man.... if I had the room and this was close it would be mine! Someone on AK should get it tho!!! These suckers were expensive in the day. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW
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10-20-2004, 09:14 AM
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I found one of these outside dumped in a field! The phono and radio still work very well but the CRT was broken. The TV likely would have worked if the CRT were still intact. The Allegro sound system tuner in these is good at picking up weak radio stations.
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10-20-2004, 01:08 PM
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Zenith Allegro tuners vs. modern systems
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10-20-2004, 01:43 PM
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I saw that unit. Nice looking cabinet; from the description, much of the electronics are in good shape as well. I cringed when I read the line in the item description that said "...unless someone wants to make a fishbowl out of it...", though. The seller obviously doesn't care about the set or its cabinet; just wants to get it the heck out of his/her house. I've seen some very nice consoles out on the curb on trash day; they probably could have been repaired easily with a new tube or two, but the owner probably figured it was too old to bother with at that point, so out it went. You're right as to these combos having been expensive when they were new. I don't think you could have touched a set such as that Zenith (or any other three-way combo set by any manufacturer, including RCA) for under $600 in the '60s-'70s--almost like today's HD sets. Because the Zenith on ebay had an eight-track player and all, I wouldn't have been surprised if it sold new for close to a grand.
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10-20-2004, 03:45 PM
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I'll bet if you threatened to rip the guts out and replace 'em with an aquarium , someone would come get it! 
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10-20-2004, 03:58 PM
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The problem w/these guys is that they DO tend to monopolise whatever room they're put into. And yeah, I think they did go for around a grand-or more-for some of the ones that had all the "bells 'n' whistles" on 'em. -Sandy G.
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10-25-2004, 02:53 AM
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If I still lived in a house, I'd bid on that set as I like Zeniths, a lot (and the set is in Pennsylvania, the next state just east of me). As it is, though, my apartment is much too small for such a monster of a TV. The closest I can come to having an entertainment center like that is the arrangement I have now: the TV and VCR in its cabinet to my far right, my computer on its desk in the middle, and the stereo to my left. The stereo speakers are on stands at either side of my desk; the computer's speakers are on top of the monitor hutch, at either side of my desk lamp. If I could find a picture of my current installation I'd attach it to this post, but my image file is a mess right now--most of them don't have meaningful filenames, so even with a good image sorter (I have Picasa and a few other freeware image viewers) it's darn difficult to find the image I want in a hurry. Oh well....that's a project for those long, cold, snowy winter days which will be here before we know it. BTW: Oooops! I just looked at the ebay listing for that Zenith combo, and found the bidding for it has ended. I hope whomever finally got it will enjoy it, as those 1970s Zeniths, like all their sets made before GS took over the company in the '80s, were excellent sets.
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11-12-2004, 05:14 AM
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That "Zenith" console haves tubes in it?
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Linear Mode
