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Hi Jonathon,

Welcome aboard the Phorum. That is a very nice selection of Zenith consoles. I also have a 10S155 and the brother to the 7S363, that is the 9S367. The 'Acoustic Adaptor' was supposed to fine tune the response to the acoustics of the room. If the truth be known, all it does is reduce bass response when it is pushed forward. Everyone I have ever seen, including the ones I have here, are all slid to the most rearward or maximum bass position. It is a bit of a gimmick in my opinion.

Another gimmick is the motor drive tuning. It is a bit temper-mental The motor will have a tendency to overheat if used a lot.

Yes, the shutter dial is the setup where the leaves of the dial change as the bandswitch is rotated. The flywheel tuning involves the use of a weighted disk or flywheel on the manual tuning shaft to allow the tuning dial to be moved from one end to nearly the other with a quick spin of the tuning knob. This gives the manual tuning dial a very luxurious feel. Both of these items (flywheel tuning and shutter dial) are actually very nice features. I personally do not consider them to be 'sales gimmicks', so to speak.

Regards,

Ed