Do all FM tuners need alignment eventually?

My Kenwood 917 is 30 years old , I had a part replaced recently and it did not need alignment. BUT every case will be different, tubes will need more maintenance PROBABLY. A friend just bought a 1968 Sherwood tube one that had the original tubes in it. If it needs it it needs it, if it sounds good and pulls in the stations you want I wouldn't bother.

I believe that my 1954 REL Precedent tuner, which is a complex design using 15 tubes, has never been re-aligned. It works beautifully, and I cannot imagine it ever having worked any better (aside from occasionally when an intermittent problem abruptly appears, which is obviously unrelated to alignment).

During the 1990's I also had numerous Scott and Fisher tuners from around 1960 or so, and a McIntosh MR71 and two Marantz 10B's from the 60's, most of which also worked well without any realignment.

Regards,
-- Al

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