27 Apr
2012
27 Apr
'12
12:10 p.m.
On 04/26/2012 02:40 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
...which nearly nobody cares about nowadays.
I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it's a fact. There'd be no
point in printing all that stuff for the 0.5% of their customer bases
who would want it.
I do wonder hoe many purchasers back in the 1960s (when this tuner was
made) had, or had access to, a double-beam 'socpe, an
accurately-calibrated signal generaotr, etc. MY guess is very few. But
the information was there anyway.
Every few
years I see what's happening in the audiophool arena. It
seems to be getting worse, not better. Another portent of the end of
civilisation as we know it?
It would eb amusing if only people didn't believe it...
I always find looking at the manuals to be instructive. The manual for a
modern radio tuner I looked at had many pages on how to use the
controls. And that was it. The manual for my old tuner has 1 page on how
to connected it up and how to use the single control (RF tuning). It then
has a dozen pages on how to align the thing (which requries a calibrated
signal generator and a double-beam 'scope). Follwed by parts lists,
chassis photographs showing the position of all the components, and, of
course, a scheamtic.
Personally, I don't care, as long as the info is available in some
other form. (which, annoyingly, it seldom is.. :-( )
Agreed. I don't mind having to pay extra for a service manual, but I do
wish htey were easily avaialble nad complete...
-tony