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That's great, but,

Posted by jihad (A) on September 27, 2011 at 19:35:22

In Reply to: not here, FM is wonderful posted by BFitz on September 27, 2011 at 06:48:35:

However, that's sadly not the case in most places.

I'm north of Chicago, I can pick up Chicago, Milwaukee, WI, Madison, WI, Champain-Urbana, Benton Harbor, MI, with the exception of WDCB in Glendale Heights there's really nothing worth listening to. Reception can be spotty with WDCB though.

I'm gonna guess that the public stations all play the same material at some point during the day. Most of their programming is probably national, or NPR. If so that's a big fail.

I don't listen to classical nor do alot of tuner enthusiasts.

Commercial stations change formats so often because they can't sell advertising for/to that audience.

You don't mention anything about sound quality. Compression is everywhere and so is digital signal correction. Regarding commercial stations, how anyone can listen to a commcercial station on a "good" "audiophile" rig is beyond me. There are so many effects and signal manipulations the sound is shit to my ears.

I gotta disagree somewhat with this statement:

"And 98% of the benefit of a roof mounted antenna can be had by selecting the limited number of models still available to buy. As the FM antenna gets bigger and bigger, with more elements, the gain and other benefits diminish very quickly over say a 6 element FM antenna. Of course, almost all the advantage comes from being on the roof, and on a rotor."

That might be true in an urban location but I'm north of the northern suburbs of Chicago and it doesn't hold true in my experience. Big time difference between 5 db of gain and 8 db (or higher) of gain on say 90 MHz.

I don't mean to sound malicious. I love tuner equipment, I love FM broadcasting and/or the spirit of, or what it used to be, I love to DX and I'm a member of FMtunergroup spun off from FMtunerinfo but let's fasce it FM broadcasting is on a downhill ride.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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Topic - Vintage Tuners in Demand - Neff 14:52:55 09/19/11 (15)

Actually, demand seems a little lower. - Gregg 05:58:13 09/26/11 (1)

RE: Actually, demand seems a little lower. - Neff 07:20:40 09/26/11 (0)

I have to disagree. - jihad 18:09:07 09/25/11 (11)

not here, FM is wonderful - BFitz 06:48:35 09/27/11 (8)

That's great, but, - jihad 19:35:22 09/27/11 (2)

define worth listening to - BFitz 12:04:42 09/28/11 (1)

RE: define worth listening to - Bonejob 19:11:50 12/04/11 (0)

Not bad here, either... - Jim Treanor 09:44:19 09/27/11 (4)

Props to your Winegard 6055P - jihad 19:41:37 09/27/11 (0)

RE: Not bad here too... - Neff 13:55:33 09/27/11 (2)

Lightning strikes, - jihad 19:38:19 09/27/11 (1)

RE: Lightning strikes, - Neff 13:17:08 09/28/11 (0)

But that's the market, see! ;-) - Timbo in Oz 18:32:18 09/26/11 (0)

Nail head, meet hammer. - Hepcat 07:08:03 09/26/11 (0)

Agreed, but I have noticed the prices have come - audiogatorjim 17:17:05 09/19/11 (0)

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That's great, but, - jihad 19:35:22 09/27/11 (2)

define worth listening to - BFitz 12:04:42 09/28/11 (1)

RE: define worth listening to - Bonejob 19:11:50 12/04/11 (0)

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