Does your sound system include a tuner?

[jdandy]

I have one around here someplace for when I listen to a Sharks hockey game, but that is pretty rare now.

Bud.......Drag that tuner out of moth balls and get it back in service. If it's installed in your system you will find yourself using it. Sitting in a box in a closet, the garage or attic is no place for a tuner to be. Hook it back up. There's lots of good programming on the air and it's free.

 

[jdandy]

Always had a tuner Have a Magnum Dynalab FT101a which was modded to MD100 3 years ago, use a big Yagi antenna which is kept in attic due to hurricanes...

Many good FM stations in Southeast Louisiana including WNO 89.9 who plays the best jazz on Saturday night !!
Along with WOZ 90.7 who will showcase local talent from Southeast La.

bayou985.......I have always had a soft spot for Magnum Dynalab tuners since they began in 1985. My favorite one today is the MD108T tuner. I think the only reason I haven't purchased one is my long term commitment to McIntosh tuners. The Magnum Dynalab MD108T still holds my attention. Maybe one day I will bring one home.

 

[Mechnutt]

Here is a picture of my Vintage 1976 Luxman T-110-

 

[Steve]

I would love a classic McIntosh tuner such as an MR74, MR78 or MR71. Being Australian, I have issues.

1. There aren't many radio stations I like. Too much waffle, too much advertising. Still, there are select stations that I do enjoy which unfortunately are played from a cheap DAB+.

2. Finding the above classics in A1/A2 condition is difficult but not impossible.

3. Aussie FM radio requires that overseas tuners be trimmed and adjusted to work nicely here.

4. Voltage. Australia is a hot 230v. Effectively 240v+. My supply avg is around 248v. Vintage 220v wouldn't cope so well. A U.S. Rated MR71 doesn't have the transformer taps to step up. A euro MR71 with a 230v transformer is ultra rare. I've seen one, it was all pitted and not in collectible condition. And then there are the alignment issues with the old tube classics.

Perhaps if I found a mint MR78, I could be convinced.

 

[allvinyl]

Yes sir, Marantz 150

 

[Steve]

Anyone here lucky and skilled enough to own a Marantz 10B?

 

[GaryProtein]

FM radio has become a wasteland with nothing worth listening to.

If it weren't for nostalgic reasons, I would sell my MR78.

 

[Gene]

FM radio has become a wasteland with nothing worth listening to.

I think that depends alot on where you live......
Fortunately there are some decent FM stations in my area that make owning and using a good FM tuner worthwhile.
I have several Macs (MR 71, MR 77), but I prefer the sound of the Kenwood L-07T.
Like the OP... I just couldn't see having a system without a good tuner.

 

[mauidan]

A retired gentleman gave me a McIntosh MR71 several years ago. The sound quality was ok, but no where near a Pioneer TX-9100.

I sold it, since there are no full time local Jazz stations and I don't like the look of McIntosh gear.

 

[mep]

I have a minty Kenwood KT-815 tuner with the original box and owner's manual if anyone is interested.

 

[jdandy]

Here is a picture of my Vintage 1976 Luxman T-110-

Mechnutt.......I think the slim line design of your Luxman T-110 tuner looks attractive.

 

[jdandy]

Yes sir, Marantz 150

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John.......The Marantz 150 is a beauty. It is a highly sought after tuner.

 

[jdandy]

Here are a couple other tuners I owned and enjoyed.




Sony S730ES is a very sensitive high performance tuner that is feature rich. This is one of Sony's best tuners. I sold it four years ago and now wish I had kept it.

At one time back in the late 70's I owned the Kenwood KA-7100 integrated amplifier and the KT-7500 tuner. This was a nice little rig. I wish I had kept it.

 

[hoosiertom]

Glad to see a tuner thread..

I'm very happy with :

Sansui TU 9900 updated by Bill Ammons :tup::tup::tup:

SONY HDRF-HD for the HD radio capability

And several essential outdoor antennas...

Thankfully there are a few good good stations here in SE MI and SW Ontario for good quality Jazz and Classical broadcasts ....

And off topic..TVrg for great Canadian TV programming

All the best,

Tom

 

[mep]

Anyone here lucky and skilled enough to own a Marantz 10B?

Another great Marantz tuner to own is the 20B. The 20B was the SS replacement for the 10B. It has the scope and more importantly, it sounds dynamite.

 

[rbbert]

I don't know. I've always had FM radio in my cars and in home receivers; the last time I remember using any of them was to record a Grateful Dead New Year's Eve broadcast, probably in 1991.

 

[mep]

I don't know. I've always had FM radio in my cars and in home receivers; the last time I remember using any of them was to record a Grateful Dead New Year's Eve broadcast, probably in 1991.

As a man who loves the digits, you have to appreciate the irony that the sound quality obtainable from a good FM tuner in the 1970s (and we could go back much further in time) from a high-quality FM station is so far superior sounding than satellite radio that it would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. Digital technology is taking us backwards in sound quality when it comes to what we listen to in our cars and homes with what passes for radio now days.

 

[mep]

Now back to my Kenwood KT-815. It has more gangs than Chicago and LA combined. With an outdoor antenna, it can pick up aliens in interstellar space talking about when they are coming back to earth.

 

[slowgeezr]

Sansui TU-717 in mine with Yagi antenna mounted in the attic.

I had a TU-717 many, many years ago. No tuner now, however.

 

[rbbert]

As a man who loves the digits, you have to appreciate the irony that the sound quality obtainable from a good FM tuner in the 1970s (and we could go back much further in time) from a high-quality FM station is so far superior sounding than satellite radio that it would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. Digital technology is taking us backwards in sound quality when it comes to what we listen to in our cars and homes with what passes for radio now days.

Could be, but I can state defintively that no tuner available on the '70's (the last time I had a chance to do a good comparison) used on the West Coast of the USA produced what I would call high-fidelity sound. Most of that was lack of quality broadcasting in LA, SF, SD or Seattle, but a good part of it is the inherent limitations of FM broadcasting. I did listen mostly to both Marantz 10 and 20, and less to a couple of SS Macs. No Sequerra (I don't think it was easily availBle, but it may just have been too expensive). JMO, of course.