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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Over the years I had many good tuners. Don’t really know why I sold most of them (often making money for another project). Also because I am an audiophile after all...

- Ion Systems Obelisk FMT1 (I still consider it as « the Little Big One »)
- Naim NAT 101. A bit better possibly because the external PSU ? 
- Naim NAT01. Still better yet if you have a very good antenna.
- Day Sequerra Reference. Great. Sold it for money. I know this is not considered as the best Sequerra tuner.
- Tandberg 3001A. Very close to the Day Sequerra. Near perfect. Too much perfect ?
- Leak Troughline 2 re aligned and entirely fixed by « London Sound ». Expensive but very good work.  Needs tons of signal for working. Maybe the best for voices but silence in stereo mode is near impossible. At least at my home and I have an outdoor antenna.

Finally came back to Naim NAT01 as I listen only one station for classical music. It is the most balanced of all them (for my taste) and very « human » on spoken voices. 


I am a bit surprised so very few people talk about Accuphase, except 1 or 2 Who had  the oldest ones like the 100 or 101.
 I never tried one myself but know the have a good (at least) réputation for building tunersAre their clients for tuners mainly Japanese or Far East customers ?