I dunno, the emerald green seems a bit overwhelming and is clashing with the deep red of the frequency display. This is not an easy one, and the stock choice of moderately bright warm white may be hard to beat, but what about, say, a nice amber?
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BTW, this is another analog tuner with a grid-locked oscillator, like some Pioneers of the time. The high selectivity and low phase noise of a mechanically-tuned frontend (and I imagine nice weighted flywheel tuning at that) with the frequency stability of a PLL synthesizer.
Indeed. Yamaha, Technics and Sansui akso had very nice gear at the time, as did Kenwood (even if their "Age of Plastic" designs were a bit eccentric). Same for their music, actually. (Japanese instrument makers became as good as they were for a reason.)
That time i was 14-15 and crazy about hifi magazines. So much Marantz, Accuphase, Hitachi. Mitsubishi was not the typical player in this game (in germany). But very nice.