What FM antenna/s has/have worked for you?
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Here's a good deal I think. It probably works. Shipping is 21.00 for me though. My NAD tuner is like this. I'm not sure of my # but it has that RDS scroll ability.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NAD-RDS-TUNER-C-425-AS-IS/382445892276?hash=item590b8d32b4:g:xLQAAOSwew5a4OMeMost people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them. -
Too bad this one on A4L is sold out: https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/yamts500bl/yamaha-t-s500-am/fm-stereo-tuner/1.html
Why is that too bad? I reckon that's a pretty standard "modern" one-chip FM tuner.
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I don't know. It just seemed like a nice unit at a good price.
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It's attractive and it has a knob, but at even its list price I don't think that there's much there there (as Gertrude Stein would've said).
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Yamaha made a few nice tuners over the years, though.
CT-7000
T-2
(on the bottom)
T-70/T-80
(all borrowed photos)
I own a couple of their third-tier models, but none of the great ones.
CT-1010
DSC_6689_z by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
CT-800
(sorry for the terrible photo; it's all I had handy)
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Now that was a bevy of beauties!
Man those tuners ( and Integrated ) look awesome!
I liked that one with those green dots showing signal stregnth I would guess. I always liked LED indicators. I had that OLD Harmon Kardon AMP that had the power level LEDs.
I had the 21 pre to go with it too.
Man, again, I wish I didn't have to sell that set!
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harmon/kardon made a line of lower-end (sub-Citation) separates in the early 1980s that were very sexy in that early-era of LEDs for everything; do you remember them?
DSC_9173 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
I have identically one of the components, the hk770 power amp (which is actually a rather nice, "dual mono" power supply component with the typical broad frequency response and high slew rate of hk gizmos of that era). There were some very nice (looking, at least) hk tunas, too, of the same era that I wouldn't mind stumbling across some day.
Not that I can find a good picture of one at the moment
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I had an amp from that series and sold it. It was one SOLID compact unit.
A few days later, I see a tuner from that series in a pawn shop for 15.00. I called the guy and he said he wanted it so I bought it and mailed it to him. He paid for it all.
After he got it, he told me it would light up but there were burnt parts in it that made it useless. I felt so bad. I smelled it before buying it too. There was NO burnt smell.
I hope the guy was able to have it repaired if it was repairable.Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them. -
Looks pretty rough in this pic (I cleaned it up later), but this gem from Archer (Realistic) actually works quite well. I pulled it from my dad's garage.
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
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Heh, two of those upstairs - one silver, one ebony
Yeah, they're on par with most of those small amplified FM antennae, I'd say.
The tuneablilty is a plus on these.
Not all such little indoor antennae offer any kind of matching, tho' many if not most do.
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I think I have one of those too. Or the one or second one I found was too dirty to put it inside the cottage. I had one sit outside for a couple months and I think I aborted the mission to try and clean the thing.
I just thought. Why and how do these types get so dirty in the first place?
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I just thought. Why and how do these types get so dirty in the first place?
Well... here is my guess. Someone got angry, maybe because he couldn’t find the black paint for his DIY speaker build. Anyway, so he got angry and threw his burrito across the room. It hits the tuner and gets it all sticky, and then the tuner falls behind the desk/counter/stand where it is dusty. Ba da bing, Ba da boom, you got yourself a nasty, dirty, sticky tuner. -
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Maybe somebody thought it could double as a coaster...oops."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
Maybe somebody thought it could double as a coaster...oops.
it is possible. Drugs were very popular in those hazy, crazy days.
