tuner comparos

[Superduper]

If a robust tuner is important to you Ira, may I suggest the Grundig Satellit 800 receiver? No, no. No kidding. You will NOT be disappointed. It takes batteries too so you can carry it around too. If this receiver does not perform well for you, then your location is beyond salvation.

BTW, I've owned one for many years and it is as important to me as ANY of my boomboxes -- something I'll never get rid of. So I don't make this recommendation lightly. Check it out.

Norm I almost bought one of those 2 years ago but the seller had a greedy discovery before I could get there.
The seller listed a minty 800 for $50 so I responded immediately after it appeared on CL and set up a time I could pick it up. Before that time I received an email from the seller saying he found these sell for hundreds on ebay so he said he would sell it to me for $500. The summary of what I told him was simply thanks but no thanks. The real funny part is this radio still shows up on CL every month or so but he's dropped the price steadily for 2 years so now he's wants $350. I've been getting some sick pleasure from seeing it listed over and over and over again.

Yeah Don, I'm sure it was a letdown to see the price jump from $50 to $500 but as a seller, I'm sure you understand the desire to get what your merchandise was worth? I also concur with you about getting some sick pleasure out of seeing the seller have trouble selling it but truth is, if he listed it on eBay and it was in mint shape, he'd get $350 easily, possibly more.

In any event, if you had bought it, you would've been very happy with it. Browsing from one end of the band to the other end takes seemingly forever because it almost seems like each incremental stop of the dial is a new station. No other tuner comes close to the receiving ability and selectibility, in my opinion. SW enthusiasts will throw up all kinds of reviews and and comparos but overall, the combination of looks, performance, sound quality, etc, is unbeatable.

 

[eldorado]

some tuners have some kind of alc, that pull in some stuff more easily but when signals are weaker

they mess up,

while simple tuners with no kind of gain give a more balanced result all over the spectrum.

and of course engineering of the schema, always brings some personality to the machine itself.