Radio Road Which tuner to get and getting the most from it. Thank God, for the radio!

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RE: A magnificent swan.

Posted by Vinyl Rules! (R) on February 24, 2008 at 20:54:26

In Reply to: A magnificent swan. posted by sgmlaw on February 23, 2008 at 05:41:46:

I politely disagree with your universal condemnation of ALL US FM stations. Have you not ever listened to any public radio stations? Most of them are at the low end of the band, but a surprising number, at least in central and western North Carolina have translators operating in the commercial range (above 91.9 on the dial). Many still provide live broadcasts from their studios and/or play CD's rather than buy the NPR satellite downloads.

And these stations sound really, really, good, particularly on the live broadcasts.

I am fortunate to live in an area where I have access to not one, but TWO public radio stations play mostly CD's or live studio broadcasts and pull almost nothing off NPR's satellites. And you can easily hear the difference between a good FM tuner and a not-so-good FM tuner on these stations.

Yes, it depends on where you live and if there any public radio stations in your area that offer this kind of programming, but please DO NOT lump every FM station in the US into the swan's cesspool.

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Posted by sgmlaw (A) on February 23, 2008 at 05:41:46

n Reply to: RE: Rel Precedent for President or lot of...hype posted by freder29 on February 22, 2008 at 02:45:10

If I could have but one perfect tuner on a perfect signal, it would be a Precedent. It is the one tuner I was never able to acquire. It is insulting it to compare it to a MD.

However, tuners of this pedigree - and indeed all the great first-rank classic tuners - are completely wasted on the existing U.S. commercial FM band. The prevailing signal processing quality is THAT bad. It's really crap anymore.

Unless you are getting it for peanuts, go for something more modest. You'll will NOT hear the differences on most signals . . . perhaps no signal . . . between it and a more modest instrument. $2,000 + is not peanuts. Even the Macs and 10B are gross overkill today. Spend a small fraction on a KM-60 or Eico 2200, and enjoy what you can. Spend the savings on something more sonically productive.

You are otherwise asking a magnificent swan to swim in a cesspool. Today, there are better things to do with one's money and expectations. You'll never experience the beauty of it.

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