I listen all the time. I upgraded my Tuner a few months ago just for that reason.
Where I live in the Monterey Bay area there are 2 college and 2 community radio stations that I listen for hours a day both at home and in the car. One of my favorites is KZSC. Each DJ student has a slot each week and plays what they like and what they want at their discretion. Similar to FM in the 60's. I hear great new songs and old songs I have never heard before and songs I have not heard for years. Example: One of my favorite DJ's is Jet Jaguar. Her set is every Saturday at 2:00. Breakfast in bed Sunday's at 9:00. It's all Female artist. KSQD has Soul Town every Saturday evening. Another station is KKUP. They have a slot Tuesdays at 7:00am. Psychedelic music from the 60's. When was the last time you heard Moby Grape on the radio? I also stream UCSB's station. ( have 2 daughters that did and are attending). My sons grandfather on his mothers side has a slot Sunday's at 5:00 am on KVMR. I could go on forever.
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We listen to "Wait, Wait, Donʻt Tell Me" on NPR, on our Tivoli table radio. I also listen to NPR in the car. Thatʻs it for FM. No reason to tune into AM.
I pitched out my FM tuner 25 years ago. We had just bought our home in the San Francisco area and at last, I had a home on which I could put up a high end FM yagi antenna with a rotator! I was pulling in stations 150 miles away!
But it was all stuff I didnʻt want to listen to. KJAZ was gone by that time. KCSM was playing jazz, but I didnʻt like what they programmed. Other than that, FM was pop and rock music, Country & Western, Christian rock, Christian talk radio, Right-wing talk radio and Spanish Language stations. The classical stations kept repeating the same limited play list and they never played a symphony all the way through. Theyʻd play one movement, then play something completely different. It was classical MUZAK.
There was nothing I wanted to hear, so I pitched it all out. GONE.
Internet radio sounds just as good and you can find stations from all over the planet for free.
FM tuners are audio buggy whips. You may get great reception, but reception of what?
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Unfortunately, it seems too much airtime is going to the advertisers...too many commercials, and not enough music.
Also, here in Chicago, the rock stations are too afraid to veer off the "safe, don’t take a chance" path. I recall a DJ talking about how much fun Robert Plant had with Alison Krauss. So much so, that they were going to do another album. Did they play a Robert and Alison song? Of course not, Communication Breakdown.
Luckily, there’s WONC down at 89.1 out of Naperville (North Central College).. Thank Goodness I have Shazam to find out who sings all this awesome stuff I’ve never heard before. I don’t know who’s doing the actual programming, but it is funny to hear these kids let me know that I just heard "Jessica", by the ALL - MAN brothers. : )
I’ll take it tho, as long as they keep doing what they’re doing.
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I have a Magnum Dynalab MD-102 that I use in my system for FM.
There’s a good college station, a classical station & several others.
The sound quality is excellent, using that tuner.
I also stream a San Diego station 91X, Radio Huaraki from New Zealand, and 8Radio from Dublin.
There are some great radio stations out there…
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I have an Onkyo T9090 tuner that was recapped and it now also allows me to swap out the OpAmp output stage - akin to rolling tubes. Makes for a really good sound.
Has amazing sensitivity and I use it for the lesser known stations that still broadcast live versus simply sending their internet feed across the air waves.
Gets really interesting at night when Skywave propagation kicks in and you start pulling in stations from all over. I can get Cleveland from Toronto :-)
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Everyday. I have a MR88 in my reference system that's fed by a combination FM/HD/Sirius outdoor antenna.
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I stopped listening to the radio since the late 90s; although every year I tune in to listen XMas music during Xmas week. That's it.
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I have both a Denon TU-680NAB broadcast monitor and an Ocean Digital WC-10 internet tuner in my system here in Dayton, OH. I use the Denon to listen to our local Classical outlet, WDPR/Discover Classical as for some reason, the WC-10 won't pick up their stream. 'DPR has no processing on its signalm so it sounds very pure. On the WC-10, I listen to WZUM, the Pittsburgh Jazz Channel, Jazz 24 from Tacoma, and TSF Jazz from Paris as well as our local, all-volunteer Oldies station, WSWO-LP/Oldies 97.3. That last one plays "music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and beyond." They have the deepest and broadest library of Oldies I've ever encountered and play a lot of songs I've never heard in my life. They also have a show on Dayton Funk every Sunday night at 11. Great stuff. The radio is always on in our place.
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Does streaming radio count? I live in the mountains of NC, and on weekend mornings I listed to KLOI, public radio from Lopez Island, WA. No ads, good selection, and almost never a song that makes me want to change the channel. Give it a try. YMMV.
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Yes in my car 89.1 oldies station.
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@moto_man
college radio or free form is the answer to keeping it fresh and interesting. You can stream it or go terrestrial if you can pick it up. Either way it’s a fun way to hear new things and surprise yourself. Or hear some of your favorite tunes that would never, ever make it on commercial. (Of course some stuff that’s not my thing at all but I give it a listen.)
I’m a Gen Xr so it’s the way I learned about music beyond what was on the “radio” if you know what I mean. So in that sense it is a bit of nostalgia too. I just love it as a mix into my regular music playing program.
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To "guscreek", my compliments to your Farnsworth ancestor for the fine radios and phonographs that bear the Farnsworth name.
Having had a career as a professional musician, I still hear something every day on Baltimore's WBJC [91.5] that I've never heard before. Their programming is fresh even with the old favorites that predominate. Founded in 1951, ALL classical and still going strong ! At a distance of 75 miles, my trusty KLH Model 21 pulls it in loud and clear. I think my 1100 foot elevation makes that possible. Any serious listening is on my "Big Rig", but who can sit in the "sweet spot" all day ? Oh, that we could !!
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yes Radio Garden has every radio station in the world available,
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I stream classical and local radio stations.
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I listen to the radio every day. in south east Michigan we have a great "listener supported" station. no commercials. classical from 5 a.m. - 7 p.m., jazz from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. WRCJ, 90.9 fm, HD-1 Detroit. love Lynne Warful on the weekends with Saturday Cinema. great tunes from movies. good stuff. sound is really good also.
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In the Puget Sound area KNKX (NPR) has great programming lots of jazz, all- blues Saturday and Sunday from 6pm, and great signal. KUOW (NPR) has even better non-musical programming but as others have mentioned, terrible coverage. I stream both when possible. KNKX haa a second stream-only that streams Jazz at 256K AAC 7X24, so their sound quality is quite good. KING-FM is a claasical station, but their programming tends towards later Classical periods (mid 19th - mid 20th century) thats just not my thing. Other than that, there's not much of interest to me.
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I am perhaps a unique position. I like classical music and often when I am in the mood to listen that is what I want. I live on the fringe of what may be the best classical station on the east coast. I can nearly receive it live over the air on a real tuner at my home in VA though not as well as I would like. I can also listen via internet radio and get a compressed mp3 format stream. The streaming option gives consistent signal that does not fade out but not very high audio quality...but at least it works consistently. The FM source is excellent on occasion but often is really awful in terms of noise and distortion because of multipath and other degradation. As I rebuild my home, I am debating the inclusion of a tuner to get this station I like or just staying with the streaming option. Its a hard choice.
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I am perhaps a unique position. I like classical music and often when I am in the mood to listen that is what I want. I live on the fringe of what may be the best classical station on the east coast. I can nearly receive it live over the air on a real tuner at my home in VA though not as well as I would like. I can also listen via internet radio and get a compressed mp3 format stream. The streaming option gives consistent signal that does not fade out but not very high audio quality...but at least it works consistently. The FM source is excellent on occasion but often is really awful in terms of noise and distortion because of multipath and other degradation. As I rebuild my home, I am debating the inclusion of a tuner to get this station I like or just staying with the streaming option. Its a hard choice.
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Only in my car. I listen mainly to a couple of talk radio shows.
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