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In Reply to: RE: Todd!? I have a request. posted by Todd Krieger on July 25, 2019 at 20:33:25

Based on the primacy of antennas in all radio reception.

How good any tuner sounds can depend on the station's quality.

But beyond that, it depends on -

i) Being driven into 'full limiting'.

ii) By a signal that, as received at the tuner / front end, has low multipath on it.

(Noting that it is difficult to overload an FM stage. I was surprised by that.)

Neither of these two requirements can be reliably achieved by small indoor antennas. Nor by an amplified small indoor antenna.

To whit, tuners will sound different off varying antennas, and the problems of a given station & transmitter, for where the tuner is. So, the 'sound' of a tuner isn't a given.

So, why are so many folks focussed on tuners almost solely?

Driven as above I've never heard a bad sounding tuner, one that was in good nick.

Few of the tuners I've heard in most folks homes sounded all that good. ? A T ribbon hidden away and not pointed. Or worse, a piece of wire.

This is an Audiophile site, with a global presence.

I believe that we should be telling the full story about FM, and AM, too!

Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

Radio Road

It was a request.

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