GoodSoundClub - Romy the Cat's Audio Site

In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: Kenwood L-02T and the hype of FM tuners

Post Subject: Good reception...inferior SoundPosted by Stitch on: 8/17/2009

Interesting report from Romy, I got identical results with different units...
some years ago I was a real tuner freak, had 4 at the same time, all started with "recommendations" about those reference Tuners. I had not all, but a few.... For example the Swiss Revox units, or Onkyos 9900 (or 9990?)
At the beginning I was fascinated to get "free" music from all over, I used big antennas etc.... but at the end of day, I discovered that all of them are sharp and thin in sound. really horrible. And when I had discussions about that with Tuner "specialists" they had absolutely no idea from what I was talking. And this didn't change 15 years later.
Then I was looking for good soundings tuners and all recommendations showed: Naim. The 01 or better the 101 Ok, good sound but deaf like an old horse. No chance to find more than 10 stations which worked fine thru it. I used them for cable then.
The I started with Magnum Dynalab and got the 108. Not a wonder but I was able to live it. I was able to listen to it without getting depressions about Ear Cancer. It was made from Breunig (?), a German engineer who was working for SABA. They made quite good products but don't exist anymore. Well, I stopped that, one of my buddies told me I should go for these Rhode & Schwarz tuners, and I believe they are really good. But they are rare and expensive. and to get those Stereo decoders are similar to a piece of gold in weight...
Too expensive to listen to that brainless blah-blah from those Radio guys.
And when I ask today in forums about good soundings Tuners I get the same brainless "recommendations" I got 10 years ago. And all show me the results of "this" Tuner page. I agree with Romy totally.
Really frustrating.

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site