ryanmh1
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| I auditioned SACD today I think you'd really have to have a tin ear or a system that's rather not accurate not to hear the benefits of SACD. I bought an el-cheapo Sony NS755V SACD/DVD player combo that was sitting as a floor model at Best Buy just for less than I've paid... | |
| Anyone reccommend books on Tuners? This question has in fact been covered on the FMTuners group, and the general conclusion has been that unless you're insane, doing one from scratch would be a fool's errand. This isn't a preamp, like you wisely noted.Building a modern high end tun... | |
| Any recommendation for a modern FM tuner Subaruguru, I only slam them on a cost/value basis. If they were selling the MD-102 for $1000 bucks, I wouldn't have nearly as big a problem with it, even though I still wouldn't like it.Regards, | |
| Any recommendation for a modern FM tuner 4yanx, Nice job digging up everything I ever posted! =) I certainly don't feel I am any sort of "FM God", but just a guy who is as obsessed with FM as Michael Fremer is obsessed with turntables. I did label a few expensive antennas as rip-off junk... | |
| Any recommendation for a modern FM tuner Glad to see you're still looking for more info Howard! Let me add publicly now a few comments I made to you earlier: Everyone should remember that as good sounding as the Meridian 504 may be, it is extremely limited purpose and very bare bones. Th... | |
| Tuner choices? Help me please This is a bit late, so I hope it still helps: Kenwood L-1000T is the best you'll find with a remote that does everything for around $400-500 or so. The Onkyo and Fanfare already mentioned also do well. But if you want to get something less expensi... | |
| Magnum Dynalab MD-100 vs. the MD-102 Tuners Mmmm.. tuner questions. My favorite. I'll give you my every couple of months tuner marathon post. It's an area hi-fi mags don't talk about, reviewers don't know about, and where new vs. old means next to nothing.I'm not totally sure what you're af... | |
| Upgrade for Day Sequerra FM Reference Tuner They want a thousand bucks for THAT? You have got to be kidding me. Gee, a few ceramic filters and an alignment, plus a change in the grounding path. Unless they're putting all new circuit board in it, that has to be the biggest upgrade ripoff I'v... | |
| Tuner Mavens This is a little late in coming, but for the money, you simply will not beat a Sony ST-S730ES. They're relatively common, and usually around only $200 or so, which is an absolute bargain. Do not that this is not a DX machine, but more of an audiop... | |
| Marantz ST7 Tuner- Any thoughts about this tuner? It's worth a little under a thousand bucks if its in decent shape, primarily because of its value as a collectible. As a tuner, they weren't really all that great, and many better tuners are out there. But hey,if you got a good deal on it, it woul... | |
| Rotel tuner performance after 2000 model year Sugarbrie, Your statement regarding analog tuners outperforming digital tuners at the same price is almost categorically false, although your comments on the Rotel are correct.For about $200 you can buy a digital that will top any vintage analog c... | |
| Nikko NT-890 Tuner Nothing special. I've looked into that tuner, and wasn't terribly enthused. Nikko had already given up on producing decent tuners by the time this unit came out. | |
| Whats the best used tuner for under 1000 Sure. This will be long, because I'm going to explain how tuners work, which is the first step toward understanding why specifications do, in fact, matter to a larger extent with tuners than with other audio products. Tuners are different from mos... | |
| FM Reception question, please Actually, that isn't really true. A whip antenna is not better than a dipole in absolute terms. How you use and install the antenna might possibly make it better. I have a few tuner manuals that even do a decent job of illustrating it. A dipole an... | |
| Whats the best used tuner for under 1000 I'm not saying that they are bad tuner, but only that you don't get your money's worth in terms of what is inside the thing. According to the company's own literature the MD-90 employs only THREE tuned stages in the front end. Most decent tuners h... |