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In Reply to: RE: My small collection of tuners... posted by J. S. Bach on January 11, 2015 at 15:38:31
1) Which one sounds the best to you?
2) Which one has the best reception characteristics at your location, as you are using it?
THOSE are the two most important characteristics, in my utterly un-humble opinion :-)
Thanks for posting your list; please post some photos if and when you like.
all the best,
mrh
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...;in fact I do not believe that the 7500 has ever been powered up by me. The 517 was the last to be used. The 2001A actually did alright for listening to a football game or casual "backround" listening; contrary to the TIC. I picked up the 419, and later the 240, for basically the same reason for when I was talking on the phone to a sports/music-minded friend; it has presets that made it easy to switch between listening to the sucky Dolphins and another broadcast Gary and I were talking about.
The 517 was the only one that I got (in an antique mall; priced $125, offered $100, it was accepted.) because I knew that it was supposed to be a good tuner. I used that for NPR's "Pipe Dreams". But due to really carpy signals where I live, I finally gave up on radio. There is a religious station next to the station the carried "Pipe Dreams" whose bandwidth was so wide the it basically made my station un-listenable. There is another station up in West Palm Beach that carries "Pipe Dreams" that I can receive fairly well (a better antenna would help; but, as I stated above, I have given up on radio) but its scheduled broadcast times do not coincide with my listening times. Now, if I want to listen to "Pipe Dreams", I stream it from the computer.
As to why do I have the tuners if I do not listen to them? Well, why do any of us have the stuff that we do?
Later Gator,
Dave
Better to have a tuner (or three or four or ten) and not need it... than to need it and not have it! :-)
I do listen more than occasionally to VPR on the S-3000V. Had it on for a while today, in fact.
FWIW, I don't like streaming radio for a multitude of reasons (limited bandwidth on our current DSL out here in the boonies being, perhaps, the primary one).
all the best,
mrh
Yes! Inquiring minds want to know. He lives in flat Florida where FM and TV reception can be a joy with a good antenna......as long as it doesn't get hit by lightening.
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"...He lives in flat Florida where FM and TV reception can be a joy with a good antenna..."
You would be so correct; if there were any worth listening to down here. A good portion of the stations here have gone talk or foreign ethnic; Spanish, Creole primarily and I do not understand either so I never tune them in.
Later Gator,
Dave
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