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FM alive and well here...curious question

SoCal listener here. 

Last night, the Classical station finished their listeners  top 100 with Ludwig B's 9th.
I got sucked in listening to the end of the 4th movement.  I can't remember what conductor/orchestra, but fantastic performance.

My Mac 71 with a $20 indoor antennae is able to get a  signal strength reading just over "8" with dead center tuning according the meter.

Ludwig B was sounding clear,quite and simply fabulous. 
 
Im aware a "real" roof antennae is the way to go. Wondering if the effort to get a "10" reading on the tuning meter will actually be heard as even better sonics?

Just for kicks, I spun a few minutes of a minty 59' Living Stereo to compare. 
WOW! The record naturally wins, but my beloved Mac isn't far off. Considering the broadcast was a CD, it was reasonably convincing. It certainly was just as good as my generic CD deck(no fancy outboard DAC)

My 71 is stock, tuned with NOS glass. I'd love to hand over $ 1K for the RM mod, but ain't gonna happen.

LONG LIVE FM! Hopefully?


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schubert
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Seems OK to me, WI public radio puts out an uncompressed signal and
use 8$K Tascam Pro CD players and Denon 103 on their tables .
Takes about 2 minutes to judge for yourself .
schubert
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Don't need one , computer will do just fine . Stations are online .
schubert
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Stations that play single movements aka :"bleeding chunks" and go disc-jockey assume their  listeners are not knowledgeable .

If you want to hear the exact opposite stream Wisconsin Public Radio Classic , most pro I ever heard .Why listen to junk when anybody can stream the best? WMFT out Chicago and WCNY out of Syracuse also are pros.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
More civilized cities tend to, in Milwaukee last year I was sad to learn they
have neither.
In Twin Cities we have a good Jazz station, which ,believe or not, is owned and run by the Mpls. school district .
Classical NPR is 24/7  plus 3 other streaming channels , archive , symphony AND choral all 24/7 .
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Worse times are coming .
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Rock stations are run for money, good sound costs money.
Classical and some jazz stations are largely NPR run and spend money 
 on the sound . Of course Herr Trumps budget calls for total de-funding of NPR and PBS . We shall see .
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