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In Reply to: RE: Another thought, FM in Australia is almost as bad, but here in Canberra we have two good posted by Timbo in Oz on February 23, 2015 at 22:14:55
The Fisher tuner mentioned above is a fine tool to gage top quality vs less quality stations. Some FM stations were unlistenable on the Fisher, but were ok on my car radio.
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They do need to be driven hard to get quiet, but their ability to cope with wide-band EMI and RFI, to either side of band II, without going into overload, is a big plus. And you have a valve line-level stage to boot.
Note that the sound quality we get from a given station will sometimes depend on the interaction of its transmitted frequency, the IF stage, and the EMI and RFI frequencies where you are receiving the signal.
I wrote about my experience of EMI / RFI with my valve 'tuna' a good while back.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
The Fisher 6DJ8 RF amplifier tube provides reasonable sensitivity and is far from deaf. Typically my Fisher tuner receives high power FM stations with full quieting 30-40 miles away on flat terrain using an indoor rabbit ear antenna.
Of course a MOS-FET front-end will provide a higher signal to noise ratio for those 500-1000 watt college stations.
I like the Scott LT-112B with a nuvistor front-end as a compromise audio quality/long haul FM tuner. The Scott is fully discrete without op-amps and sounds good. Audio wise the modified Fisher can approach CD sound on the right FM station.
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