Dave Edwards wrote:
I think I would take a nice old Fisher 400 any day of the week!
I suspect one would go for about 1/4 of this asking price.

Actually, $80 is about fair for a Fisher 400 in decent shape. The nice
thing about the 400 is that it uses readily-available 7868 output tubes
rather than the 7591s that some of the other Fisher receivers use.
(There is a Russian 7591 equivalent which sounds good, but it's taller
than the real thing, and too tall to close the case on a Fisher 500).

The 7868 isn't the most linear thing around, but it's not half bad and
those Fishers had surprisingly good output transformers.
---scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."