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In Reply to: RE: McIntosh MR78 posted by Jim Austin on October 05, 2015 at 06:09:31
I have only owned one MR78, bought it for $500, sold it for nearly twice that in the mid to late 1980's, and the buyer had me ship it to audioclassics for the Modiferri mods http://www.audioclassics.com/mods and they shipped it on to him. I sure would have liked to play with it after they had it, but people in hell want icewater. If i were you i would pick up one of the Sony XDR-f1hd's or a Sansui 717, sell the Mac, and move to a place where I could put up a decent antenna! (or see what I could get with the Sony and any antenna I could get away with.)
jm2c,
Hal
Follow Ups:
would make you think of a tuner, any tuner, as a solution before you would think about antennas.Let alone moving somewhere else - which clearly isn't likely.
SQ is particularly important for a classical listener - which is what WQXR broadcasts. The Sony tuner you recommended is i) no longer made and ii) is not exactly renowned for its sound quality on FM. And HD aka Hybrid Digital isn't either, no matter what box you use for it.
His problem will almost certainly be multi-path plus masking by large buildings, and only a directional antenna can address those problems. Yes?
Because no tuner made can reject multi-path. Not even the Sony.
So that aiming at a relatively clean (low-multipath) and strong reflection is likely to be his only solution. Yes?
In the rest of the thread there are posts about a largish - but hide-able - wire DIY indoor antenna type - directional with gain - that might address his problem.
Boggles my mind, just a bit. Given that you used to have a very good directional antenna yourself.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 11/03/15
"would make you think of a tuner, any tuner, as a solution before you would think about antennas.
Let alone moving somewhere else - which clearly isn't likely."
Because of the idea of living on the first floor of any building in NYC, I cannot imagine a worse fm signal nightmare. But that is what it is. If he could live anywhere he could put up a yagi at any height, with any hope of getting a clear signal from the direction he wants it from... then yes. Antenna trumps tuner each and every time. The antennacraft fm-13 is the best directional antenna I ever got erected. http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/fm13.htm
" So given that you really had nothing to contribute ......
Why post?"
Good question. I'll try to consider that before posting here in the future.
Warmer regards,
Hal
F'whoop about DIY indoor wire rhombics, eh?You didn't read the entire thread, nor the article here at FAQ?
So given that you really had nothing to contribute ......
Why post?
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 11/09/15
But I do own both the MR78 and the Sony XDR-F1HD. If anything other than background music is the goal, I can't recommend the Sony. It's not awful sounding, but it's no MR78.
Great RF performance though!
"You won't come back from Fletcher-Munson curve"-Jan and Dean
"It's not awful sounding, but it's no MR78. Great RF performance though!"
Agree 100%. Just thought the big problem for the poster here was getting a wanted signal in the big city, can be done much more cheaply.
might be an even better idea.
Given that no tuner made can reject multipath.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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