I have had a MR7082 since it was new back in the 1980's. It struggles with the very weak distant stations that are low output as I suspect any tuner would. I appreciate the information that I should probably stay with this tuner. ( I use it with a homemade integrated vacuum tube amplifier, 6J5 parallel feed connected to choke loaded mu follower 6SN7 feeding a pair of 245 triodes to woofers by direct coupling active filtering and the midrange-tweeter of my speakers. Considering the price and affordability of buying any amplifier that has these features I like, do I look like a television evangelist?)
I went to great labor to build an antenna selector switch with led displays of the stations to which I put up towers and outdoor FM antennas to get the best reception I could from classical music FM stations.
Now I am worried that all that will become obsolete garbage if the new administration in Washington shuts down all the public radio stations and all broadcasts of classical music. This limits whether or not I might someday have my tuner aligned by a professional shop. Also, the FM stations use digital 150 kbits so analog is irrelevant. Sometimes I have to use my laptop connected through a usb that outputs similar digital output to an MSP Platinum DAC then to my homemade amplifier.
I would hate to see all that FM setup become but a souvenir of a time before society and its culture under the fascism of totalitarian democracy insists, "You don't need Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, American Idol CW disco is good enough for you. You don't need Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Dickens, Victor Hugo, National Enquirer and Harlequin romance novels are good enough for you. You don't need to live in the architecture of Matti Suuronen, a trailer is good enough for you, let us demolish the Taj Mahal and replace it with a complex of casinos and a NASCAR track and tear down the Sagrada Familia Basilica to make room for a sports stadium surrounded by McDonald's and Burger King to bring it up to date with the times. Don't talk about Heisenberg and how you think it relates to Kant's categorical imperative, talk about sports and be passionate about your favorite team like everybody else so that you will be more popular. And start eating normal food, Doritos, Kellogg's fruit loops, and Wonderbread and grow a beer belly so that you will look like everybody else. Isn't it worth it to do what it takes to get along in the world and be a success rather than be yourself, to accept how the world demands you define who and what you are rather than having the arrogance to decide for yourself who and what you want to be? In the end, the question is not that you can survive without the arts and those cultures created by those who gave it everything they had to make them most beautiful because, unlike the producers of corporate commercial culture, they implicitly presumed the humanity and human dignity of their audiences, it is whether a life of game shows, fantasy football, trailer parks, and junk culture music offers a life worth living.
I went to great labor to build an antenna selector switch with led displays of the stations to which I put up towers and outdoor FM antennas to get the best reception I could from classical music FM stations.
Now I am worried that all that will become obsolete garbage if the new administration in Washington shuts down all the public radio stations and all broadcasts of classical music. This limits whether or not I might someday have my tuner aligned by a professional shop. Also, the FM stations use digital 150 kbits so analog is irrelevant. Sometimes I have to use my laptop connected through a usb that outputs similar digital output to an MSP Platinum DAC then to my homemade amplifier.
I would hate to see all that FM setup become but a souvenir of a time before society and its culture under the fascism of totalitarian democracy insists, "You don't need Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, American Idol CW disco is good enough for you. You don't need Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Dickens, Victor Hugo, National Enquirer and Harlequin romance novels are good enough for you. You don't need to live in the architecture of Matti Suuronen, a trailer is good enough for you, let us demolish the Taj Mahal and replace it with a complex of casinos and a NASCAR track and tear down the Sagrada Familia Basilica to make room for a sports stadium surrounded by McDonald's and Burger King to bring it up to date with the times. Don't talk about Heisenberg and how you think it relates to Kant's categorical imperative, talk about sports and be passionate about your favorite team like everybody else so that you will be more popular. And start eating normal food, Doritos, Kellogg's fruit loops, and Wonderbread and grow a beer belly so that you will look like everybody else. Isn't it worth it to do what it takes to get along in the world and be a success rather than be yourself, to accept how the world demands you define who and what you are rather than having the arrogance to decide for yourself who and what you want to be? In the end, the question is not that you can survive without the arts and those cultures created by those who gave it everything they had to make them most beautiful because, unlike the producers of corporate commercial culture, they implicitly presumed the humanity and human dignity of their audiences, it is whether a life of game shows, fantasy football, trailer parks, and junk culture music offers a life worth living.