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This tuner has not worked in 20 years.
I do not have a suitable antenna.Why don't I want to get rid of it?
Gsquared
Edits: 04/29/21Follow Ups:
Run a Marantz 2238 and Nak ST-7 which pulls stations in better than the Marantz. Also have a Logitech Squeezebox for streaming Pandora. Speakers are Triangle Comete' and a old pair of Infinity ref 3's.
88.3 commercial free jazz; can't ask for anything more.
I have two MR-74s set up in different systems, a Tivoli in the Garage, and a Luxman receiver in the MBR- - Some have old 300Ohm dipoles, and I do have a bigger antenna on the roof - I also have a drawer full of Heath, Dyna Fisher and Pilot tube tuners that all did work...
I do consider myself lucky to be in the SF Bay Area where there are still some worthwhile FM stations
With out the signal, the hardware has no value...
Happy Listening
enn tee
all the best,
mrh
Want to fix a Rotel?
Gsquared
only the audio part.
FM circuitry is scary! ;)
all the best,
mrh
I have a Zenith Transoceanic 7000 (ca. 1968), a couple of Emerson bakelite AA5 table radios from the '40s, a Sangean ATS 803A and a little Grundig Yacht Boy 400.
But most of my listening these days is with a Grace Digital Mondo+ internet radio.
I still have my Yaesu and Icom radios. FM tuners? Nah.Yaesu Shortwave Receiver:
ICOM HF/VHF Transceiver:
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Sold all of my Tuners years ago including Fanfare, Magnum Dynalab, Marantz, Adcom, Sony, Denon, Parasound, etc. Great signal strength and good audio quality on AM/FM here, but nothing worth listening to.
Kept the original Tivoli Model One radio:
I also have an old portable GE radio. I rarely use these but when I do it's mostly just talk-radio or sports.
...
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
I have two great public radio stations and one fun community radio station all within reach, and am thinking about upgrading my office system tuner (currently a refurbed Sansui TU-717) to a tubed tuner. My Sansui 9900 in the main system sounds absolutely lovely on the long Friday and Saturday night blues shows (lotsa vinyl there) put out by one of the nearby stations. I'm livin' the dream, 1970s style, I guess.
Why limit yourself to 3 Stations, when you can have your Pick of thousands across the globe?
Vinyl is the source for some of the music on all 3 stations, and a good portion of the music on one of my favorite programs on one of those stations. All three also broadcast live music. I have a superb digital front end, but it still doesn't match what I hear every day from my vinyl front end. Same for streaming. In the radio realm, I suppose I also just like the looks of those analog tuners and the feel of moving the dial. They're lovely machines.
An FM tuner is a good thing but only if you have a decent station to listen to. I flick on two switches and I have music (tuner and amp). Computer streaming stations takes a lot longer to get up and running.
"I flick on two switches and I have music (tuner and amp). Computer streaming stations takes a lot longer to get up and running."
Only if you don't set it up right... I have systems set up that I flip one switch and the Amp, Preamp, DAC, Music Streamer all power up and it starts playing my Music Station.
My wife's System in the Master Bath, is also set up so that she Flips one switch next to the light switch and the Integrated Amp/Dac Powers up along with the Music Streamer and it starts playing her favorite radio station from 1,800 miles away.
Your Streaming System is just not set up as good as it could be.
some things never die like my Bose wave radio and Sansui receiver, low volume background. I let the DJ's pick while I work and listen to weather, news, and music. No fussin' here, the Bose has been on in the garage 24/7 and won't die (it was a used gift)
Even the Shopright market has music going on while you pass down the aisles, something about studies show increased worker productivity and customer spending.
{just yesterday heard that Genesis was booked for Madison Square G in December, I thought that Collins was old and sickly, it will probably be cancelled because of the exodus and pandemic}
THEN get rid the tuner.
You can thank me later.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
F spending $ on an antenna.
An eight foot length of crappy old speaker wire draped over the metal cabinet does perfectly fine for the tuner in the garage system....it will work for you too.
Your interest may vary but the results are the same (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Wasn't proposing spending $ per se, was just nudging him to get rid of the tuner he
hasn't used in 20 years because it seems like he needs to do that on some level.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
No tuner in the system. It's so nice just streaming the world via tablet.
Sold my last tuner a few years back. I had several over the years but doubt I'll ever get another having digitized my music collection. Random play mode is a better experience than any radio station.
Some were expensive. McIntosh MR71, Marantz 20B --- Sold them when they were worth something. Today you cam stream Radio Stations with perfect fidelity from across the Globe.
Once you face the fact that they are worthless, it's easy to let go of them.
Did you sell your 8-tracks, Sony Walkman & Discman, too? ;-)
I did.
I did have a car back in the 70s with an 8 Track Player.... I'm sure it got 'Compacted' at the Junk Yard with the rest of the car by now.
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I'm like that with my Kenwood L-01T tuner.... Even thought it works and is in nice cosmetic shape...... I could get some good $$$ for it......
It sounds good, but I like my mod Yamaha T-85 a lot better.........
I use a cool looking tubed Lafayette tuner (top left....a whopping $5 expense) in a system I set up just for listening to one station with talk radio. I needed a system with a remote and a mute so I could lay on the couch and not have to get up when the Fu&*ing commercials come on. So I hooked up a SE Zenith 6BQ5 console amp to my Meridian preamp with the tuner and a pair of bookshelf EVs.
Ahhh...commercial-less radio.
Your interest may vary but the results are the same (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
I think I have that same Lafayette tuner in my collection...
Happy Listening
Nostalgia for when radio was worth listening to maybe?
"It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat" Alfred E. Neuman
I remember
Gsquared
I have a 35 year old JVC tuner that I haven't used in about 30 years. No suitable antenna either. Why do I still have it? Because one day I might want to use it. Anyway that's what I tell myself whenever I think about it.
I've got an old Eico tube tuner that has never worked, and radio in Pittsburgh, man, it would be an improvement if it turned into a vast wasteland. It's on the level with sewage at this point.
And that tuner is still sitting around.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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