Which tuner to get and getting the most from it. Thank God, for the radio!
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Posted on January 17, 2020 at 09:35:12 | ||
Since the last post I found on this subject was right after the war, I thought it might be informative to raise it again. I use a Polk XRT12 tuner with an outside antenna, into a Pass XP-20 to one of several amps driving either a pair of Quad ESLs, or Quad ESL 63s, with bass augmentation by a pair of H-frame dipole subs. I have been lucky to have a decent FM station locally, playing classical music all day....but, there is more and more "conversation" and more and more intrusion of religious music and programming into the mix. (Please note the station is operated by a religious school) So, I dug out the the Polk tuner, connected it, went through the operation to add the tuner to my XM bill (two cars). After getting the tuner operational (naturally I have lost the remote) I began to listen. Is the "sound" as good as the Scott 4312 tuner I have been listening to for over a year? Well that's whats interesting. The short answer is "not exactly", but the sound is much, much better than what other people seem to have experienced in the older posts. I have no idea if with the merger between Sirius and XM, the signal improved or not. But without going into full audiophile-review-mode...Compared to the Scott 4312 (and other tuners using the local PBS mentioned above) The XM "sound" is a bit more diffuse, the imaging is not as crisp...but, the bass is deeper, and a violin sounds like a violin. And, when I find the damn remote, the choices of "nearly as good" as FM music are endless. And I dont have to listen to a sermon on Saturday morning unless I chose to. |