I have recently rekindled my interest in audio components. I was an avid hobbyist in the late 70's, early 80's. I have the Carver tx11 tuner (FM only) and used it at Marlboro College in southern Vermont, hooked it up to regular radio shack or whatever dipole antenna stretched across the wall. This tuner is amazing. My receivers of the day in this decade were Technics, JVC, Harmon Kardon, Denon. Their tuner sections were vastly inferior. I picked up Long Island fm from Marlboro, Vermot. I could differetiate between many classic rock stations close together on the dial out of Worcester, Mass(WAAF), Hartford , Ct(10.9, wccc?), New Haven Ct (WPLR), etc.
Help interpreting tuner specs
These are the readings from my old tuner after testing: Distortion @ 1 kHz - 100% modulation
Left Wide IF mode 0.053% Narrow Mode 0.18%
Right Wide IF mode 0.054% Narrow Mode 0.18%
Stereo Separation @ 1 kHz - 100% modulation
Left into Right Wide IF mode 64 dB Narrow 57 dB
Right into Left Wide IF mode 63 dB Narrow 56 dB
65 dBf RF input quieting - unweighted (Signal to Noise Ratio)
Mono -72 dB
Stereo -75 dB
50 dB quieting points - unweighted (Sensitivity)
Mono 0.5 uV
Stereo 22 uV
Do these readings represent good tuner specs?
Left Wide IF mode 0.053% Narrow Mode 0.18%
Right Wide IF mode 0.054% Narrow Mode 0.18%
Stereo Separation @ 1 kHz - 100% modulation
Left into Right Wide IF mode 64 dB Narrow 57 dB
Right into Left Wide IF mode 63 dB Narrow 56 dB
65 dBf RF input quieting - unweighted (Signal to Noise Ratio)
Mono -72 dB
Stereo -75 dB
50 dB quieting points - unweighted (Sensitivity)
Mono 0.5 uV
Stereo 22 uV
Do these readings represent good tuner specs?