No love for FM tuners?

I also have a tuner in each system but I can only get one FM station, CBC. It is mostly talk radio with a few music programs in the evening (I like Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap). I listen to fm on my Grundig S350 radio every morning with my coffee.

I have mostly Pioneer tuners and one Luxman:

Pioneer TX9500 II (mobile home workshop system)
Pioneer Elite F-91 (main system)
Pioneer TX-6200 (basement system)
Luxmann T-210L (bedroom system)
Tangent Quattro II (table top wifi radio in bedroom - okay, not strictly a tuner)

I just recently retired a Lowe HF-150 shortwave radio for lack of stations but it did not cover the fm band.
 
That's a lot of radios! I only listen to one, the McIntosh; however we have a few around. Sirius on my computer and in the cars... AM/FM in the Yamaha receiver in the TV surround system (never use the radio). We also have a Bose wave radio/alarm clock (dam expensive alarm clock but that is what I use it for :))....
 
I also like listening to listen to UHF, VHF, short wave, and world band radio signals on my Icom RC-7000 communications receiver and my JRC NRD-525 world band radio. I enjoy listening to Radio Havana broadcast from Cuba, China National Radio broadcast from Beijing, China. At certain times of the day both of these stations have english speaking news broadcasts. It is fun to listen to radio broadcasts from all around the globe.


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I own a Rotel Michi since the early '90s. It sounded and sounds very good... if the FM stations brosdcasts good, what it is not the usual case. Just no more than five (5) does it. All the rest (and it is a lot of rest) deliver an horrible signal.
On the other hand, here in Europe, TDT broadcast includes radio stations too, being a difficult to beat competitor for FM, since all the issues associated to analogue emission are removed.
All that said, I must say I enjoy listening to a good FM music programm (yet).

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Ventura_Rodriguez_Vallejo said:
I own a Rotel Michi since the early '90s. It sounded and sounds very good... if the FM stations brosdcasts good, what it is not the usual case.
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I think you hit the nail on the head. There is only so much a tuner can do with a very compressed signal (of which most are in my area). However, I still enjoy listening from time to time via our Magnum Dynalab MD107T particularly on less-compressed signals as you mention.

A good friend of mine still swears by his Marantz 10B (it is indeed an absolute killer piece) and routinely reminds me that the MD107T or even Day-Sequerra's of yore can't keep up with his beauty. However, I am less finicky and feel that there are other decent tuners out there that can swing in a similar league.

I only mention the 10B since you can sometimes get lucky with relatively cheaper prices on a used one and restore it/have someone restore it for roughly the same price or less than some of the more modern equivalents set you back.
 
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joeinid said:
That's exactly why I still lust for the MR88. You had to do it Dan, didn't you? :audiophile:
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You need a MR88 <swings gold pocket watch back and forth>:wacko: :bonkers: :fingers: .... McIntosh..... when you wake you will immediately order a McIntosh MR88..... say it now... mac in tosh emmmm arrrr eighty eight.....

now...... WAKE UP....
 
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