Sylvania Saratoga Restoration

[miniman82]

I don't want to come off like a jerk here, but this set will never have 21-CT-55 quality video. It simply doesn't have good enough circuits, the best it can hope to do is match a CTC-4 since that's where most of the circuits come from. I suppose it might actually do a little better than a 4 though, since there are additional stages of amplification in the chroma chain and additional tuning transformers. But it is still a narrowband set, so matching a '55 isn't going to happen (technically speaking). I still maintain however that a lot of the quality of the picture in these early sets is due to the CRT, and not the circuits driving it. In other words, the only reason my 21-CT-55 'looks' better to me is due to the fact that the colors are more saturated vs a later 21AXP22. I promise that if I put the CRT from the 21-CT-55 in my CTC-4, the results would be quite dramatic.