I recall reading a review of a Sequira receiver-it had an oscilloscope display on the front panel-what it displayed I forget. As I recall, it was a small firm, probably did not survive for long. A search of eBay found none-does anybody remember the make? were the receivers anything special?
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I was a teen in the 70’s, and normally wouldn’t have any recollection of an obscure brand of hi-fi from that era, but if it was a quadraphonic receiver from the early/mid 70’s, then the scope might have been a feature was occasionally found on the more expensive gear, as a sort of visual feedback on the 4 channel balance adjustment.
Here’s a Marantz 4400 on eBay with such a scope tube. Cute, huh?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARANTZ-4400-AM-FM-GREEN-SCOPE-QUAD-RECEIVER-WC-43-CABINET-SQA-1-FULLY-RESTORED-/281790782530?hash=item419c0a1c42
S’anyway, as an exercise in sharpening my google-fu, I decided to poke around the web to see if I could find the elusive “Sequira” receiver, and learned that a brand with a similar name did in fact exist in the '70’s, then known as Sequerra, presumably the same people who made Dick Sequerra loudspeakers.
Here’s a Sequerra tuner on eBay, and whattayaknow, it has a mini scope for a signal strength meter:
Now this may have been a fine tuner in its day, but the state of the art of FM radio has come a long way since 1979, and frankly, you can do much better much more cheaply.
Edit: well, ninja’d, of course, while searching, but the other points hold up, I s’pose.
Thanks for the info-I was an old time stereo geek. amazing that today’s audiophiles are satisfied with compressed audio files and micro speakers. how times have changed.
Heh. My college roommate had one of those. Spent many stony hours contemplating the green glow of Pink Floyd.