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In the Forum: Off Air Audio
In the Thread: How to record FM broadcasts.
Post Subject: Re: Troughline TunerPosted by guy sergeant on: 11/18/2005
Of course I haven't compared it with the Sansui, which appears to be a very serious machine but the Leak sounds more natural to me than the other highly regarded tuners available over here (in the UK) such as the various Naim models, the Audiolab (as was) and the Magnums I've heard. You can find them very easily. The Troughline 3 seems to be the one to get. Earlier ones were Mono, but wired into 2 plugs the 'mono'ness is not an issue such is the quality of what comes out. The bass performance from FM has to be heard to be believed. The first Stereo ones had a solid state decoder which works pretty well and more recently Tim deParavicini did a valve decoder for it which is also supposed to be very good.
With a live broadcast the quality is exceptional, as Romy finds, far above what can be achieved by any Turntable or CD I've experienced.
Classic FM does occasionally veer away from safe populist pap and also broadcasts some good live concerts now and again. You wouldn't have to just set it for Radio 3!Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site