I happen to know that valve tuners have plenty of dynamic range

Driven hard - this is vital - a valve front end can eat most SS tuners alive.

Good sounding valve MPX stages need a fair few valves to sound good.

SS MPX stages inside a valve tuner can deliver far higher ROI.

IMO the reason valve front end tuners sound so good these day is their resistance to overload from strong out of band RF signals. Very few SS tuners have similar resistance.

I listen to two good stations - with zero or minimal dynamic range compression - locally. One of them broadcasts simple stereo recordings of live concerts made locally, some of them recorded by me. The other one is a national network and it broadcasts lots of concerts, many are direct live broadcasts.

Valve circuit's PSUs can store large amounts of energy, and give very good filtering aka ripple rejection.

So, IF your tuner sounds relaxed and calm, that's a good sign. Not a bad one. Stick with the Scott, it is telling you the truth about the signal.

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

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Topic - Need advice on "running" a bank of 20 turners - midshipman 10:04:39 06/19/14 (13)

RE: Need advice on "running" a bank of 20 tuners - midshipman 19:23:42 06/30/14 (0)

switch box - stellavox 05:13:52 06/26/14 (0)

The more I think about this it would be chaper to buy a low-power FM generator and listen to CDs or high-rez - Timbo in Oz 22:23:23 06/25/14 (2)

RE: The more I think about this it would be chaper to buy a low-power FM generator and listen to CDs or high-rez - fredtr 17:15:20 06/27/14 (1)

I happen to know that valve tuners have plenty of dynamic range - Timbo in Oz 01:40:28 06/29/14 (0)

Don't - Awe-d-o-file 10:12:11 06/23/14 (2)

RE: Don't - mcgjohn@yahoo.com 10:06:15 06/25/14 (1)

RE: Don't - Awe-d-o-file 12:43:48 06/26/14 (0)

RE: Need advice on "running" a bank of 20 turners - fredtr 08:21:33 06/21/14 (1)

RE: Need advice on "running" a bank of 20 turners - Brian Levy 10:29:49 06/22/14 (0)

RE: Need advice on "running" a bank of 20 turners - Brian Levy 14:48:07 06/20/14 (0)

You'd need to know aht the frequency bandwidth of a composite video signal is - Timbo in Oz 18:48:55 06/19/14 (0)

an old-time (cable) distribution amplifier would work IF - mhardy6647 18:34:48 06/19/14 (0)

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I happen to know that valve tuners have plenty of dynamic range - Timbo in Oz 01:40:28 06/29/14 (0)

I happen to know that valve tuners have plenty of dynamic range

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