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Damn, what a joy to have good College FM stations.

Just was inspired by my local college station playing great Jazz off an album...  When living in the Madison, Wi, Iowa City, Ia area and a few others...Chicago, Milwaukee, L.A. etc. college FM stations have been a joy. 

Not my music that I own or would, but my local station just played a great song by the Mills Bros...  Ed Sullivan gave them new life in the 50s.  If you have a local college FM station that plays good music, support their fund drive and let your friends know that there are still reasons to own a great tuner.   For what it's worth (no not the Buffalo Springfield song) the "wood look" Sony table radios. like the ICF-9550W  are worth your time. ...can be had on ebay for near nothing and if nothing else, some music for the garage while you are changing the oil on the Ferrari California Spyder 250GT SWB......or the minivan. 








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rshak
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If you don't own an FM tuner and/or live out of FM range from a good college radio, there's always an internet tuner and free standing internet radios.  I listen to several college stations in this manner.

My favorite is WDCB, which broadcasts from College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL.  In fact, right now I'm listening to John "Radio" Russell's *Midwest Ballroom* on that station.
rshak
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david_ten - Internet tuners can sound quite fine, depending in part on kbps - but not as good as a strong analog FM signal played on a good FM tuner.  The best quality FM sound I've experienced was on KPFT in the late 90's/early 2000's - -like the full, rich warm sound heard of the *Milestones* jazz program every Saturday evening from 6 to 9 pm.  I'm glad I recorded many of those programs to cassette - still have, and play, them from time to time.
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