Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?....


Things like the CT-7000 from Yamaha, other Marantz, Magnum, Fisher, Scott or any others.  It would be good for us "tuner people" to hear your experience with older, former SOTA tuners.  Thanks. 
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We had an AR (Acoustic Research) tuner come through the shop recently. It needed a new filter capacitor in the power supply, and one of the rectifiers was leaky so I changed both out. After that is spec'ced out quite nicely on the bench and pulled in weaker stations in town with no worries- better than I was expecting. I wasn't expecting much to be honest; the AR amplifier was a terrible beast so it was a nice surprise to see that the tuner was much more competent.
For years I ran a KLH model eighteen which I had modified by installing crystals in the IF section and got rid of the IF transformers. I also updated the audio portion to sound a bit smoother- after changing out all the filter caps. Regulating its supply helped too, but I couldn't get around the fact that it simply didn't have enough selectivity in the front end (one of my favorite stations is really low power and right beside a behemoth country station). So I'm on the hunt for an old Kenwood...