Sony xdr-f1hd, Tuner, Impresive great value

I have had several tuners mostly vintage Sansui Kenwood Marantz including a 10B and a 90s es sony. living by the ocean it has always been a challenge to get quality reception. Which leads me to this post, the xdr-f1hd effortlessly pulls in stations the others could not, sounds great with my kt88 tube int amplifier. Only negative I have found to this point is that it doesn't retain stations when we have power outages.Clearly the 10b sounded better but was no match in pulling in stations any one else using one?