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Sony St-5130 VS Philips AH 673 sensitivity

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Living in a rural area, I need a tuner which has good sensitivity to listen my favorite stations. The Sony ST-5130 is simply the best tuner I tried to get noise free reception with my favorite stations. About sound quality, the Sony is too mellow. It is lacking definition.

I have the possibility to buy a Philips AH-673 which has a really good reputation about sound quality and for it's sensitivity. I have to buy it to try it in my system.

Is the Philips AH-673 can be as good as the Sony to get noise free reception ? I can't find any Sony ST-5130 specs to comnpare the sensitivity with the Philips AH 673.

If the Philips isn't as good as the Sony for reception, I will do mods on the Sony and keep it.

Thanks

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Here goes, what antenna set-up are you using? - Timbo in Oz 17:55:22 03/20/09 (0)
And, how far from your fave stations are you? Are there hills?

:-)!

The two are likely line ball in sensitivity terms, the Sony is a little older.

Unless it has been checked over since new it would very probably benefit from a going over in the RF, bandwidth filtering stages (matched and selected filters), and the MPX and other audio stages. Good audio quality but commercial Res & Cap upgrades! It is unlikely to become less sensitive or selective, and should sound quieter and better - less warm, but still nice.

IIRC the Sony could output a multipath readout which is no bad thing. And it can get your fave stations, now.

The Philips will also warrant a checkup / mods anyway. The AM stage in the Philips is among the best SS AM around. Hi-Fi AM had a good market down here in Aussie / FM only came in the 70's! May not be important to you.

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RE: Sony St-5130 VS Philips AH 673 sensitivity - danwilliams 14:17:34 03/19/09 (0)
What mods would you do to the 5130. I've had mine for 25 years
RE: Sony St-5130 VS Philips AH 673 sensitivity - Brian Levy 13:41:43 12/20/08 (0)
I have a Philips 6731, the balck version of the 673 but not the ST5130. I do have several Sony receivers, the STR6060FW, STR 6120, STR6065 and STR 6045 plus a Sony ST-1055 tuner. The sound of each of the tuners of these is not all dissimilar to a McIntosh MR77 but less refined and detailed when run through a Sherwoods S5000II and later a Sherwood S9500c. The Philips has more air and a better quieting slope and comes even closer in balance and detail to the McIntosh. The Philips is nothing to sneeze at as a tuner. As an aside, it has one h*ll of an AM and as I have the 77 the 6731 does stay with me just b/c of the AM. The 77 is FM only. First AM tuner worth being in my system in some 40 years.

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