1969 Muntz color roundie ad

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Originally Posted by wa2ise

I noticed the ad copy saying "color TV with power transformer, 3 stage IF, and super powered fringe area chassis". Seems Muntz"s reputation for minimal circuitry was well known...

I worked for a small Muntz dealer, around that time. The set shown in the ad, was a specially built, leader model. The cabinet was finished in a burnt orange, Plextone paint job. The stereo part was a AC/DC, AM radio with a simple S/E 50C5 output stage. The phono was a simple manual 4 Speed record player, using a turntable and a tone arm, as found in a school type phono. It had two 5" speakers, one for each channel. The TV used it's own output stage, with those speakers.
The color TV was the common CTC15 design, that everyone seemed to use.
The CRT was a left-over Zenith OEM 21FBP22.