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

Khaki8,
What are the 4 stations here in NYC with high quality broadcasting? This thread has got me curious.

I would like to give my old tubed Sherwood tuner a shot on a decent radio station. I don't expect it to compete with a good tt set-up, but before reading this thread I was recently contemplating radio station transmission and whether or not a tuner could be a high quality source.

Thanks!

There are a couple over the air classical stations out of NYC that sound very good broadcast over the internet for sure on a decent properly equipped stereo system. One is WNYC I think off the top of my head.

96.3, 90.7, 93.9 and 88.3 all are pretty good sound and the different shows really teach you about new music. One of my favorites is the Moonshine show on Sunday...not sure which station though.
They played from Ramblin' Boy by Charlie Haden with family and friends. He is famous as a jazz bassist. Bought the cd and the vinyl. Quality of the vinyl is fantastic!!
Love hearing different music.

Thank you, Khaki8!

Dear Jimpcn: +++++ " its a shocking revelation to me that the tuner is the highest quality source in two channel. " +++++

IMHO and to be a little " wilingness " about it is not the highest quality source only different.

Now, if your +10K analog rig and the ones from your friends are " surpassed " by the tunner then IMHO you and your friends are in serious trouble about not only your analog rig but your whole audio system, at least with analog.

There are other things that maybe could happen for that: that yours music/sound priorities are a little " odd ", that all of you do not have a lot of live music experiences, that the whole set-up is wrong somewhere, that you and your friends are not " golden ears ", that you and your friends like it more the tunner " colorations/distortions ", that, that, that, etc, etc.

I'm not saying that all these can/could happen what I'm saying is that something is wrong or at least out of " standards ". There is nothing wrong with that but your statement is something that happen to you and friends and not with other 99.95% of the analog audio community.

Bis a Bis ( everything the same ) IMHO it is almost impossible ( for normal people ) that many/several of us can/could agree with your statement.

Now, that is a good news for you and your friends because you can/could put on sale the analog rigs and make some money and go on enjoying those very good radio stations, that you have in Toronto , from your remote: that's great.

Btw, some one posted about some specs on FM signal at radio station and told us: " WAY better than ANY phono cartridge. ".
Well, I have some cartridges that are " way better than.... ", to say " any " means an " absolute true " and IMHO nothing is totally perfect to surpass " any ", well like always only my opinion, I respect the other people opinions even if I don't agree with.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.