How is it ? that a tuner smokes the table ???

Why is it a problem that his tuner sounds so good?? It seems that we've all forgotten that in the days when vinyl was all there was, there were also a great deal more diversity in FM radio programming . . . and a high-quality FM tuner was very much considered an "audiophile" source.

Having spent some time both as a broadcast engineer and restoring/aligning vintage tuners . . . I can assure you that FM stereo, as a medium, has the potential for MUCH better performance than an LP. It's just that so few broadcasters, and tuners, take advantage of it anymore.

I'm fortunate to receive a 24 hour jazz station out of Toronto (CJRT, 91.1).

On both of my Mac tuners (71 and 77) the sonics are clearly superior to any of the digital machines here.

But not the vinyl front ends.

I have a Mac MR67 tubed tuner that when listening to classical music or jazz via the public radio station, it simply blows away my digital front end. But as nice as it is, it doesn't come close to my analog set up.

Audifeil
If you think 91.1 sounds good - try 96.3 (Clasical 24/7)

Same thing here with my Scott 310E...better or equal to my digital..this tuner is light years better than a Modaferri modded MR71. There are about 4 real quality stations here in NYC.