On 6/09/2014 10:07 AM, David Platt wrote:


A lot of people agree with you.

**There are a lot of idiots out there too.


There's a great deal of enthusiasm
out there for the "golden age of analog" FM tuners... expecially those
with real air-variable capacitors.

**Yep. Some were very good. Some were crap. They drifted off station and
offered poor specs compared to many modern tuners. In terms of cost, the
modern tuners beat the pants off the old ones.


A lot of 'em have better
sensitivity and selectivity than you'll find in modern products (in
which the FM section is almost an afterthought).

**That is very much a generalisation. A good quality modern tuner can
provide performance which will exceed that of a good quality old tuner.
I have a selection of quite good old tuners (Yamaha T2, Yamaha T7,
Marantz 125, etc). I also have a much more modern Denon TU1500. It
anihilates the old tuners in every way. Sensitivity, selectivity,
distortion, sound quality, stability and, most critically, cost. Even
better, the TU1500 can be purcahsed very inexpensively, because every
man and his dog are dumping tuners to buy DAB+ models.


Modern receivers
often tend to emphasize DSP and effects and 587-channel operation, and
cut corners on the basics :-(

**Again: Very much a generalisation. When a company like Denon decides
to build a modern, good quality tuner, it can do so at reasonable cost
and offer very high levels of performance.


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Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au