I'll have to check on the meter in AM but I'm 99% sure it does. It was probably a modernization move away from the tubes for tuning in the "C's. It was listed as a "PROFESSIONAL TYPE" not "professional". There is a difference. Professional type meaning it looks like a pro meter but isn't. And it isn't a pro meter. FISHER's marketing Dept was not in lockstep with the engineering dept., and wrote up stuff that today would put someone in jail for misleading the public. It was Hype, all Hype and nothing but Hype! And the Public ate it up, not knowing any better. Everything in the Early 60's was styling styling styling, without substance to back it up. Look at the cars from the 50's and 60's. BIG Fender's, BIG Fins, Big everything excpet for the engines. Mostly 6 banger's that made, if you were lucky, about 100 brake horsepower. The V-8's for the most part were all less than 1 hp per Cubic inch. Now you have 4 bangers that are putting out close to 250hp (normally aspirated) but at the top end of the power curve. Those 60's 6's had more torque than most 8's, but due to the design of the 6's then couldn't pull the rev's of the 8's (I'm not talking Ferrari's Lambo's or other Ital or French jobs. Strictly US stuff.) It was all Marketing Hype, and fluff.
Look at Magnavox at about the same time. They switched their whole damned line from tubes to transistors in ONE YEAR. 1962 tubes, 1963 transistors. ASTRO-SONIC was the line's name. Evoked images of the JETSON's, space age, and NASA! All 3 were big at the time. Magnavox had their biggest year in 1963 with the introduction of the ASTRO-SONIC's. They ALL used germanium transistors, but they were readily cross referenced to the original RCA parts manuals at the time. And they were cheap compared to the costs of FISHER's. The masses loved them, and their many cabinets, and amp tuner and speaker combinations. Most sounded like crap but the wive's loved their big furniture.
Look at Magnavox at about the same time. They switched their whole damned line from tubes to transistors in ONE YEAR. 1962 tubes, 1963 transistors. ASTRO-SONIC was the line's name. Evoked images of the JETSON's, space age, and NASA! All 3 were big at the time. Magnavox had their biggest year in 1963 with the introduction of the ASTRO-SONIC's. They ALL used germanium transistors, but they were readily cross referenced to the original RCA parts manuals at the time. And they were cheap compared to the costs of FISHER's. The masses loved them, and their many cabinets, and amp tuner and speaker combinations. Most sounded like crap but the wive's loved their big furniture.
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