Why? What's wrong with GRUNDIG?
Before I became a real engineer ("zweiter Bildungsweg") I was a radio and tv technician. My dislike stems from repairing lots of their products. There certainly were worse, like Kuba or Loewe, but somehow I just didn't like them - starting at the very top, Max Grundig (no, I've never met him).
Telefunken, Saba, Nordmende, Philips have left no such bad impression with me.
Grundig had one color tv chassis with a big and heavy isolation transformer and modules houses in metal boxes. Having to get that up to the 5th story in Stuttgart's old houses (no lift, of course) was no enviable job, even if 2 men were carrying. With the rounded edges that were en vogue then, the damn monster always wanted to slip from your fingers.
I do not regret entering school again.
Same here. I learned "radio and tv technician" end of the 80's before I went to university.
I always wanted to become a radio and tv technician.
But I didn't have that worse memories regarding to Grundig. I've repaired several devices from them.
But since our store sold much more Telefunken, Saba, Nordmende, Loewe or Braun stuff, I did not have
that much contact with Grundig devices.
And I liked always the measurement equipment from Grundig, for example the signal tracer they built (the SV41).
But I'm with you about those bloody heavy TV sets. Loewe had them as well. And not to speak of the good Sony Trinitrons
Edit:
David Levinson from "Independence Day": "Every repairman can do this, dad."