Paul R Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 Listening to Mahler on Classic FM, ABC at the moment. One can easily forget how good a decent analogue tuner can sound with a decent aerial. I cannot compare this with the digital equivalent as I don't have a digital radio tuner in the main system. In the car, yes, digital trumps FM. All I can say is that the old Pioneer TX-9800 is a fine sounding tuner, bearing in mind I've not compared it against the top tuners from Sansui, Yamaha, or Kenwood/Trio! Paul R 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 indeed, I had it's lesser brother the TX7500 for a while, fine performer. https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/pioneer/tx-7500.shtml http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/pioneer.html Still have a Rotel RT-624 I inherited from my father, sounds good too! Still for sale, will take $40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLXXX Posted November 19, 2018 Share Posted November 19, 2018 (edited) 20 hours ago, Paul R said: One can easily forget how good a decent analogue tuner can sound with a decent aerial. Yes, I get excellent sound from ABC FM using my TV antenna (an older, large type that still covers the VHF band). 20 hours ago, Paul R said: In the car, yes, digital trumps FM. I find that to be the case when in a fringe reception area. The digital audio signal is noise-free. In a good signal strength area I find I prefer the sound of ABC FM from a car radio FM tuner, over the sound from a car radio DAB+ tuner. I find the DAB+ sound a bit bland. The bitrate for the HE-AAC codec used for the digital audio, isn't all that high. The nominal bitrate for the ABC FM DAB+ service is 80kbps. In practice the bitrate available for the audio is somewhat lower than that because of the need for redundant data to be included in the DAB+ broadcast stream to facilitate error correction in the receiver. Also, there needs to be an allowance for other data (mainly for small slides displaying text and graphics). Edited November 19, 2018 by MLXXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemack Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 I’ve got a lovely TX 9500 that I’d love to use but being in East Gippsland, I find it hard to get a nice clean signal. Would connecting it up to my (unused) TV antenna be the way to go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyr Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 1 minute ago, unclemack said: I’ve got a lovely TX 9500 that I’d love to use but being in East Gippsland, I find it hard to get a nice clean signal. Would connecting it up to my (unused) TV antenna be the way to go? It should work quite well, um. Not as well as an FM antennae - but I would think, good enough. (But don't have the antennae plugged into anything else.) Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_m_54 Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 9 hours ago, unclemack said: I’ve got a lovely TX 9500 that I’d love to use but being in East Gippsland, I find it hard to get a nice clean signal. Would connecting it up to my (unused) TV antenna be the way to go? As long as it's not a UHF only antenna. FM broadcast is close enough to the old VHF TV antenna specs to make it work pretty well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 On 20/11/2018 at 10:13 PM, unclemack said: I’ve got a lovely TX 9500 that I’d love to use but being in East Gippsland, I find it hard to get a nice clean signal. Would connecting it up to my (unused) TV antenna be the way to go? If you refer back to my post re: Rotel RT-624, my father used this tuner and built his own high gain FM antennas. He was getting good reception from regional stations 100's of km's away. It's also important to have a rotatable antenna if you're wanting to pick up stations situated in different directions. FM DXing (long range FM reception) http://brisbanefmdx.com/antennas_39.html http://home.iprimus.com.au/toddemslie/Korner-15-11-FM-yagi.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acg Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Good info @Ian McP, thanks for that. I have to do something to improve my FM reception...what I've got now is not really cutting it, although it is a good start. Would be lovely to talk to someone that knows this stuff but the antenna guys I talked to only know tv reception and were little help at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 this may help http://www.hamuniverse.com/yagibasics.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balk2117 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Enjoying my Scott tuner listening to ABC FM but should also get around to organizing a dedicated antenna. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 On 29/11/2018 at 7:32 PM, balk2117 said: Enjoying my Scott tuner listening to ABC FM but should also get around to organizing a dedicated antenna. http://www.fmtunerinfo.com/tubetuners.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djb Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 The Scott tuner is a rare beast - enjoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steever Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I've been partial to Cyrus tuners for years now. I just picked up this one a couple of months ago. I'm not running any specialist FM aerial, just a feed off the TV antenna on the roof, but results are fantastic. I only listen to ABC Classic FM on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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