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   No it wasn't!!  The standard Philharmonic is a little less congested. Yet, at some point in this radio's history, a lot of capacitors and a few resistors had been changed, some of them under the upper layers.  Someone took the time to dig deep. Scott crammed the FM section in the same chassis as the AM Philharmonics by removing the "expander" and added far more tubes, circuitry and coils than they removed, thus increasing the component density.  I just hope like crazy that everything works when I power it up! NO SMOKE PLEASE. 

The SLRM is a dream in layout.  I suppose it was designed to be easily serviceable by minimally trained military service techs.  I love the performance of mine!  I hooked it up to the phono input of my EH Scott "Beam of Light" Philharmonic that is sitting right next to the SLRM in the shop.  The SLRM sounds great through a full range audio system.  In the HF switch position, the frequency response is very good for an AM radio.  You are going to love it!