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

Yes. I have the Yamaha CT1010 tuner. Sounds great and looks cool sitting on top of my CA2010 interrogated. Circa 1976. -

No matter the tuner you have, it's only as good as the signal you feed it.  When I bought my house 21 years ago, I was thrilled to FINALLY have a house of my own where I could put up a proper FM yagi antenna with a rotor!    I was running an Onkyo T-4055 tuner, which was the beast that first made Onkyo a respectable name.  With this antenna, I was pulling in stations 150 miles away!

The problem was that virtually all of the stations were nothing I wanted to hear.   C&W, MOR, contemporary pop music, Spanish Language and worst of all - Christian Rock.   There is a college jazz station here in the area, but I've never liked the stuff they played much.  

So I pitched the whole thing out years ago.  With Internet Radio on my Linux laptop, played through a Peachtree DAC to my main rig, I have access to hundreds of sources from all over the planet.

FM tuners are audio buggy whips.

I use a pioneer SX1250, with a pioneer Pl-600 table , Pioneer CTF-1000  tape deck  hooked up to a set of JBL -L300’s all are restored and mint condition.  It’s just wonderful for me.  Ear to ear smiles and I play it LOUD AND PROUD !!! .  All cables are from Blue Jeans .  It’s on it’s own electric panel two 10/2 lines with its own ground   And a JL audio 10 inch 700 watt sub .     

Im down to a Mitsu DA-F20 & a Kenwood 600T both gone through by B. Ammons who is best known for his filter adder board which will upgrade selectivity .
Unfortunately since moving out of probably one of the last bastions of multiple good non commercial FM stations (s.f. bay area) I am now living about 3 hrs north and my favorite term for this area is FM wasteland. So, mostly listening online to my fav stations.

I have a new APS 13 languishing in the garage. Never installed as I was using a Winegard FM only yagi back before and sold as planning to put up the APS13 w/rotor of course!    -- But as not really content in being here so have not put it up. I probably could get Sac a tomato stations although wondering if much there anyway. Ive probably checked online and didnt find anything

Ive been listening to non commercial FM so long Ive been through all the major genre’s for so long that the usual offerings from say NPR and such would just not do much for me.

Now a days search and listen to what might be termed as ambient or new sounds actually a station out of NY WQXR.. has program called new sounds. There is though a good classical couple of hours on sunday nite coming out of KALW out of the bay area.

I use Mcintosh MR67 ver 1 rebuilt by Audio Classics.  Ive used other tuners, but I like this one best.
PS:  You must have the rebuild.