Sony 5000W (c. 1967)

The Sony 5000W is an FM tuner from the mid-1960s. Documentation on it is thin. No manual or complete specification sheet appears to survive in the archive. What exists is mostly a distinctive advertisement that ran in several hi-fi magazines in 1967, aimed at listeners who live far from their favorite FM stations and have to cope with weak signals surrounded by stronger local ones.

The advertising copy is specific about the front end. High Fidelity (December 1967, p.107) described the 5000W's 5-gang, silver-plated tuning capacitor as contributing to excellent selectivity and accurate tuning. The same ad touted a very long slide-rule dial that was said to be absolutely linear - set it to 96.3 and you were genuinely on 96.3 MHz. The identical copy appeared in Audio (May 1967, p.45) and other periodicals of the time.

Known specifics:

• FM tuner, advertised around 1967
• 5-gang precision, silver-plated tuning capacitor
• Long, linear slide-rule dial with accurate frequency indication

Beyond the magazine advertising, almost nothing else seems to be recorded about the 5000W.

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