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Romy the Cat wrote:

doug s. wrote: i have never heard the rel.  but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders.  or get one w/a built-in sherwood mpx.  this is tube sound as good as you are going to get, imo.  it should rival your tu-x1 for sound, tho it will not be as sensitive.  i have a couple different sherwoods - s3000lll mono, s2100-ll stereo, (both never serviced), and a refurb's s3000v stereo.  the sound of these, (the mono iteration being run thru a studio-12 decoder), all rival my refurb'd modded tu-x1 for sound.  don't let the low price fool you.  they were all better sounding than the modded-to-the-gills mac mr65b i used to own. Doug, the REL is gone and I frankly do not look into tubes tuners anymore. I am bit frightened from the result I got from REL. It is not that REL is bad tuner it is just so far from where I am with my SS tuners that it is not even comparable. Thanks, for pointing out the Sherwood S3000ll. I am not familiar with it but if to look at the circus that it shall have way less selectivity, less sensitivity and less gain then RELL http://www.dvq.com/hifi/images/sher_3000.jpg Perhaps if I have one falling on my laps I will try it but I do not no see myself to spend any targeted efforts to do so.

there is no question that the sensitivity & selectivity will not be anywhere near tunas that excel in this area.  but, it is good enough for all but the most difficult reception conditions, ime.  mine fare quite decently in my present less-than-ideal location.  if you have good reception in your area, the sherwood will be fine.  but the sound is where these things excel, really.  as they are so dirt-cheap, and even pretty-cheap when completely refurb'd, you owe it to yourself to at least try one, as a someone obviously so interested in tuna.  ;~)

Romy the Cat wrote:

doug s. wrote: (ps - why selling that to-die-for r&s decoder?) Because I have two of them but I need just one. The caT

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